Testimonials

Just a note to say how pleased we have been with your service. The finished product is exceptional. Your service staff are polite, efficient and professional. Thank you. Look forward to continued quality work.

We recently moved from Connecticut to Lewes Delaware to a custom built home and art studios. We had a very elaborate landscape design in mind and as artists, with high expectations – lawns, large fish pond, patios, stone walls, breezeway, fountain and a runnel feeding the pond, land fill and elevation management, shed, English style gardens, trees, irrigation system, drains, walkways, lights, outdoors spa, fence, irrigation system well / pump, trellis and more. The building company was overwhelmed by our requirements and did not think that any of their regular landscape companies will have the ability to produce our design until they found Bella Terra Landscapes. They came through for us with flying colors. Not only the crew accomplish all the work, they also exceeded all of our expectations in every way. We don’t normally write reviews, but Bella Terra Landscapes was so great we felt that we had to do something to show our appreciation. This is one of the best companies we have ever dealt with and we going to recommend them to everyone that needs landscaping. They were extremely professional, creative with ingenious ideas, patient, and helpful through our whole experience. Their customer service was extraordinary from Mike, the owner, Justin, the designer and all the way through the crews and everyone that worked at our property. They were all incredibly polite, hard working and helpful every step of the way. If you want an honest estimate and authentic work, this is the company for you. They stuck to the budget and schedule from the estimate even when we made some changes to the original plan while they were working. Every step of the way they explained everything they were doing and fixed every problem, big and little, that came up. They even worked directly with our home builder to correct problems with the drainage pipes and helped us with approval issue with our HOA. We will of course use Bella Terra Landscapes for all of our landscape maintenance needs.

Great company. Professional service. A pleasure to work with. They did an excellent job on my lawn, arrived when they said they would and the cost was reasonable. A great small business to support.

Great customer service! They do what they say they will in a timely manner. I have never been let down by them as they take personal responsibility for their work!

I wanted to thank you for the outstanding work that has been done here! It exceeded my expectations. Your team was tremendous and your vision realized. I very much appreciate your approach and customer focus. I look forward to moving on additional projects to bring this yard into splendor. Thank you very much for your attention to detail and superior workmanship. I can’t thank you enough.

We had our new home landscaped by Bella Terra last fall, and this spring we had them install a beautiful paver patio surrounded by arbor vitae trees … everything is SPECTACULAR. The landscaping teams are talented professionals who take pride in their work … they weren’t happy until everything was perfect. The hardscape team who installed our pavers were truly artists at work. We could not be happier. We highly recommend Bella Terra to everyone! 

If combining the highest level of artistic ability with extraordinary technical expertise is what you’re looking for, look no further. Bella Terra TRANSFORMED our property into a take-your-breath away wonderland that literally causes passers-by to stop in their tracks to take it all in. What Bella Terra did blesses us each and every day. Highly, HIGHLY recommended!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new landscaping. You did such an amazing job. It is truly beautiful. Thank you soooo much.

I never have to call. Bella Terra are on their game at my property! Brandywine Living in Rehoboth are proud of our Landscaping. Thanks Bella Terra!

I want to thank you and the crew for all of the work you put in this last week. We are especially excited about getting the grass as hopefully it will help keep the mud and sand out of the house. Again, thank you for your efforts.

When we called, Bella Terra came… immediately… and fixed our light outages. Excellent service. Highly recommend this company.

Love Bella Terra! Great people, great work and fair pricing! I own a real estate development company in DC and have worked with many landscape co’s, I highly recommend Bella Terra! 

Bella Terra does beautiful work. They are very responsive and willing accommodate any special needs. I highly recommend them.

Bella Terra did a great job with my new home’s exterior illumination. Mike, Ken, and Lana were very professional. Mike shared his design idea with me and was accommodating to the suggestions I made. Perfect.

We had been researching for over 1 year for the right company for Landscaping on our property. We chose Bella Terra for several reasons. One was our first meeting with Rebecca, she was very helpful in helping us decide on a plan that would benefit the small backyard setting. She offered ideas that met with our vision. The Trees and plantings offered variety, color, and dimension; we can’t wait for Spring to see the colors come alive. This company is extremely professional, timely, and responsive to customers. We were pleased with our design, planting, and irrigation changes. Start to finish, a pleasure to deal with the entire company. Highly recommended.

Below is an email we sent to Bella Terra this week noting our experience with their services this year. We would like to share it with others looking to use Bella Terra. We highly recommend this company. Bella Terra We’re writing to be certain you know how happy we are with the coordinated work of members of your team, who recently converted our wood-burning fire pit to gas, then installed complementary landscape lighting around our home. Specifically, we want to call out the efforts of Rebecca Snow, Luis, Jamie, and others who worked on our projects. In August of this year, Rebecca helped ensure that an extensive re-landscaping plan we’d worked on with an earlier Bella Terra employee was effectively completed. We were very pleased with the work, so we called Rebecca back in September for some help with our wood-burning fire pit. We wanted to convert it to gas, but our propane supplier discouraged it, implying we would need to pull up the patio surrounding the fire pit to effect the conversion, which would be very expensive. Rebecca called the propane supplier on our behalf, and got the same vague response. Refusing to give up, she contacted Peninsula Propane, arranged for them to take a look at the situation, and got a much more positive response (kudos to Dallas and Bernie from Peninsula). With her help, we switched propane suppliers to Peninsula. She then arranged to have the propane line trenched through the yard under the patio to the fire pit, to cut two vents into the stone fire pit, and to create an opening for the controls. The result: We have a fantastic looking (and easy to use) fire pit. At the same time, we asked Rebecca if she had suggestions to improve our scanty outdoor landscape lighting. She put together a much-improved lighting plan which was installed about two weeks ago. It looks amazing! Rebecca had a lot of help from her Bella Terra partners. Luis and Jamie worked on the lighting. We don’t have the names of all who helped with the fire pit, but we hope you can identify them. All of them deserve a lot of praise; to a person, they were polite, neat, and hard-working. We’ve engaged Bella Terra for our lawn cutting, landscape design, irrigation, lawn fertilization & weed control, and shrub/tree maintenance (the latter two via Arbor Care). We couldn’t be happier. You’ve got a collaborative team of very talented individuals, and it was important to us to acknowledge their fine efforts on our behalf.

Great company. They quality is excellent and the service is prompt. 

Mike, the owner, was very responsive as were his supervisory staff. Can’t say enough about the hard working crew who insured that we were happy with the plantings. The landscaping looks great despite the brutal heat of this summer. Great company to work with. Highly recommend them.

Excellent work by an excellent crew. Shout out to Garret, Mike, Henry for their professionalism, hard work and talent in creating something beautiful in my yard. They were flexible with my late changes, and went above and beyond in every way. (My apologies that I did not get everyone’s name.)

Trust me, these folks have a way of getting inside your head and heart to unlock the full potential of any landscape project you’re lucky enough to let them put their hands on. They’re geniuses, whether creating unique designs or common sense solutions, and their team consists of some of the hardest working people I’ve ever known. Highly, highly recommended!

ose from BellaTerra put up with very cold air temperature and frozen ground to find the pop off to our storm drains. Very thankful for his work and BellaTerra’s response. I would use them again.

We hired Bella Terra after seeing their work at a show house in RB. We had bought a beautifully landscaped but neglected property. They cleaned everything up, made new planting’s and have meticulously maintained our yard ever since. When some of the new planting’s failed, they redesigned and brought us new plantings. Could not be happier with their care and excellent service.

Hi Mike, I am writing to commend the excellent service I have received from Bella Terra. In addition, I would like to offer my highest accolades to the work crew that has been managing my property. In particular, Danny Kelso has been extremely helpful and accommodating. He listens carefully often taking notes when we discuss modifications I would like made or changes I want. He gets plants moved around the garden effortlessly and is always polite, knowledgeable and has excellent interpersonal and communication skills. I have watched him spend months trying to perfect a grass bed by pulling out a persistent species of weed. He succeeded and his tenacity should be commended! He is a very hard worker during the installs and maintenance. He is a tremendous asset to Bella Terra. If there are incentives for excellence in employee performance, he should receive one. One of the workers named Julio is familiar with my property and takes great care to help me with various requests. I have watched him pay great attention to detail including the weeding, trimming and clean up. He spent a long time once picking up the dropped leaves from Magnolia trees that are up against our shower stalls. It was a tight space to access and he was down on his knees for a long time in an uncomfortable positon until everything was cleaned up. He has demonstrated amazing strength when doing installs. He makes a sincere effort to communicate clearly with me and we always manage to understand each other very well. He is a pleasure to deal with. It is also always a pleasure when Keith swings by to check on the progress and status of the property. He too is always a gentleman and helpful with suggestions and astute observations about ways to modify or improve things with the garden. I always try to buy the crew a beer but they resist and I have to pass out some cash and bottles of Gatorade. In closing, I am so happy I am a client of Bella Terra especially when I hear the horror stories my neighbors tell me about the frustrations they have with their landscaping companies. My property is a shining star in the Ocean Breezes Community. I get many compliments on the landscaping from neighbors. Often when rental families stroll through the neighborhood they will ask me if I am the home owner so they can tell me directly that; “your garden is the nicest in the community”. That means a lot to me. Thank you for providing such an excellent staff and service. I am available anytime if you ever need to talk to me about this commendation or anything else. I am truly yours,

We worked with Bella Terra on a mutual customers’ project. They were extremely pleasant and always got us what we needed. We definitely look forward to working with them on future projects.

Bella Terra did a beautiful hardscape and plantings! Also a dry well to solve rain water issue.

Thank you for all your efforts in making our patio a dream come true. It was such a pleasure working with you and your team.

Bella Terra helped us with an extensive re-design of our landscape, and also handled the installation of the new design (including landscape lighting). We were very pleased with the design & install. The designer listened to our “wish list” for a mostly native plant design that blended well with the surrounding area and created a great design with a nice mix of plant material. The lighting designer gave us valuable feedback on our initial plans, and what he recommended was a much better option for us than our original idea. All install staff were professional and hard-working – they showed up on time, cleaned up the property when they left each day. We would definitely recommend Bella Terra as a quality, professional, design/build landscaping firm.

We just wanted you to know that we are thrilled with job you did at our home. It has transformed the look in a very positive way. Thanks again!

I personally used Bella Terra for our patio installation this summer. His team wa on time everyday, and you would not know that they were driving trucks, lawn care supplies over our yard. They did a beautiful job and the patio is amazing. His crew were such a nice group of people and professional.

I can’t say enough good things about this company. The staff are always available with ideas and suggestions to improve the appearance of our property. The landscapers are professional and courteous. I highly recommend Bella Terra for any landscaping needs.

Bella Terra did a great job putting in lights at our office. Very impressed with the staff and the service they offer us. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a dedicated professional staff and a quality product.

Sincere appreciation for your prompt service and expertise in fixing the grading and water issues associated with my driveway. your staff was proficient and courteous. Upon completion of their work, the area was cleared and returned to its original landscape. Despite the volume of rain that has fallen since then, water has not entered the garage or seeped into the basement. It was a pleasure to work with you and your company. I would highly recommend your services to customers facing similar issues. Thank you.

Our organization is Lewes Unleashed, the new dog park in Lewes, Delaware that opened August 2016. After the recent rainy fall, the park developed a large pond in the center of the site, which some wanted to call “Lake Paw Paw”. Other owners weren’t laughing because, while the dogs loved the mud, their cars didn’t. We contacted Bella Terra and another large landscaper. Bella Terra developed a plan and estimate for the work in record time. Even though fall is an extremely busy time for landscapers, they made time in their schedule and got the work done – on time and at a reasonable cost. The other landscaper took one look at the project and said they needed to do more research — and never got back to us. Thank you Bella Terra for working to solve a complicated problem. The dogs thank you too.

Have used and recommended Bella Terra for many years. Ranging from weekly lawncare, irrigation installation, uplighting and full landscape installations. There isn’t another company I would consider using in their place. Thanks for all your hard work! 

We have used Bella Terra since our original landscape installation (new home was surrounded by bare dirt) in early 2012. They are knowledgeable, courteous and thorough. Our labor-intensive garden is in good hands with BT.

Great design vision, quality materials and superior follow-up resulted in a 5 star result.

Thank you – what a wonderful job!!! We made the right choice of contractor.

Our new corner garden with wall, etc. looks great. I can’t wait till spring when we can start planting. Thank you.

Bella Terra is a great landscape company and they keep my yard looking impeccable. They always show up, complete the jobs in a timely manner, and have the most friendly employees.

We highly recommend this company. Bella Terra is always there for us. Excellent and prompt service for over 10 years, including snow removal . BTW Danny, we are waiting patiently for your spring pruning. 

We hired Bella Terra Landscapes to build a hardscape front patio on our home. The owner, Mike Schimmel, came to our home to give us an estimate and right away we were impressed with his presentation of ideas for the patio. He gave us a little background of his company and we were equally impressed with the fact that he and his staff, on a regular basis, keep their certifications current and attend classes in the field to always provide for new and innovative ideas and techniques. Mike sent a 4-man crew to our home and each member of that crew was dressed in uniform provided by Bella Terra. Mike would show up everyday at our home and discuss the plan for the day with the crew. Each guy knew their daily role and they hardly took break. Each member of the crew took pride in their work, checking and rechecking each move they made. The finished product was spectacular!! We have gotten so many compliments from neighbors on the job — and we have given out the 8 business cards Mike left for us to neighbors who are now interested in having Bella Terra doing some work for them. Overall, Mike and Bella Terra Landscapes is a great company, with a great crew!! Mike was always available and returned our calls in a timely manner. You really get what you pay for with Bella Terra Landscapes. We highly recommend this company for any of your hardscape needs!! We would hire this company again in a heart beat!! Thanks Mike and Bella Terra Landscapes!!

We wouldn’t have anyone else do our hardscaping and landscaping work. We’ve used Bella Terra for quite some time and are always thrilled with the work they do. Prompt, hard-working, thorough. We highly recommend this company.

Bella Terra exceeded our expectations for our hardscape patio with lighting and landscaping – from design to finished product! We shopped around and no one else compared. Nearly every day, our landscape designer was on site, and some days the company owner was even present, ensuring the project was perfect. This company takes pride in their work and it shows. We didn’t use the lawn space prior to having the patio installed… now after less than two weeks, we have used it almost every day and already can’t imagine it any other way. This was an investment worth every dollar.

One Call Services has referred our clients to Bella Terra for many years. They always deliver great service and a great product. They are our “go to” landscaping company. Their design work is impeccable, and their attention to detail is second to none!