I reached out to four landscaping companies on Yelp to set up estimates. Peter with Anthem responded within an hour or so and was in the area so he came out that day. Within a day or two, he emailed me an estimate. It included a computer generated picture of my backyard and what the new plants, rock etc would look like. The price was reasonable, but I still wanted to get the other estimates to compare. WELL, two of the others I scheduled via Yelp called withing minutes of their scheduled arrival time to say they couldn't make it and needed to move to different day. Another of the company's showed up 10mins after I told them I had to leave for work. They let themselves into my backyard and sent me a cheesy estimate without any discussion with me as to what I was looking to do.
Jump ahead, I hired Anthem because of the promptness, and price. I couldn't be happier. They showed up when they said they would even though it was raining, they cleaned up every day before they left and I am so pleased that I am hoping to hire them in the near future to do more work on the front yard.