Do NOT hire Sal Lauro from Matawan as a landscaper or landscape designer. He runs a horrible business and does not have enough experience to handle simple or complex jobs at your home.
We just spent close to $10,000 with him for a job around our new pool that must now be completely be removed, regraded, and re-landscape designed die to his poor work and lack of knowing how to redirect water with a drainage system.
In addition to that he can’t figure out how much things will cost to complete a job, but he will randomly show up at your house looking for money. After he gets his “down payment” he disappears for a few weeks until he is ready to show up with a crew to do work that takes WAY longer than expected, is poor in design, and in our case had to be fixed several times to fix his errors.
We have now moved on to a new landscape designer to correct his poor work. Avoid him at all costs unless you enjoy throwing your money away.