Has anyone used Deerwood Landscape?

you can check the Rancho Santo Fe Homeowners Association:

http://www.rsfassociation.org/index2.html

^thye have links to services and such

or here is a non-profit garden club in Rancho Santa Fe to ask:

http://www.rsfgardenclub.org/

if the above have not heard of the service, it might be that the new guys are still okay, they might even be cheaper. but maybe let them do the work one time b4 u pay them? and maybe even do that a few times before u turn it into an automatic service. hard to say if they would screw something up if u let them prune trees or other big work though. or they might miss picking up on a lawn disease or such...idk actually. The bid amount might be bound to vary according to their expertise level/equipment inventory and what the market will bear.

here is a pro landscaping board. They have a civilian help forum at the bottom of the page. maybe they will tell you how to get a good contractor:

http://www.lawnsite.com/