Struggling with this logo!!!

Your letters are kinda misshapen. Your 'P' portion had a different weight from the truck and the leg of the 'R' has still yet, another weight.

It's a good start and you're almost there.

 

Trying to make the round part of a P look like a tree's crown will be tricky. Google image search for tree vector and you'll see how people represent a tree's crown. Making one that only goes to one side will be a tough thing to make look representative of a tree.

 

instead of having them face the same direction, have you tried mirrowimaging one of the letters?

 

I really am the last person you want to take design advice from, but what if you started with something like this:

Or just do it with bare branches, like it's windswept:

Just a starting point for you, like I said, I'm a mechanic, not an artist.

Good Luck

 

The "P" and the "R" are already symbols, presumably representing the name of the business. Turning them into symbols of trees and rivers gives them an additional symbolic meaning, which runs cross-current to the original symbolic meaning. That automatically sets up a rejection in the viewers mind. The better you are able to make the dual symbols work, stronger the confusion will be.

Making letters into symbolic or representation images that deliver additional messages is usually a difficult design strategy to pull off. When it works, it can be very effective (the effect is usually subtle, see samples). When it doesn't work, or if the "hidden meaning" becomes the dominant message, it typically looks terrible.

https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/famous-brand-logos-hidden-meanings/

http://parrishtheartist.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-favorite-so-far.html

 

Consider simplifying the logo. Less is more.

 

a good visual addition

 

It's too complicated and there is too much going on with that RP. If this is a small business I would imagine the emphasis needs to be on "Landscaping" and the confusing RP takes away from that.

 

So inaccurate as far as FEDEX. Everyone knows they started as the Fedex teaspoon company, hence kerning being all smooshed and the e and d touching, forming a spoon.

But I'm one the believe most logos need to be fully represented when produced in one color, as well as a full color print. If the river and tree cannot be distinguished when the colors are all the same, then, well, I guess I just won't like it. Just my two cents.

 

Is it supposed to be just an R, or are you trying to make one symbol that represents a P and an R? If it's the latter, it's not going to work – no one will read it as RP or PR when they're combined.

Johnny's idea with the vine wrapping around the trunk is nice. The first thing I would have tried to fix OP's drawing would be to change the upper curve of the R to be part of the river instead of part of the tree, i.e. a continuous river from the top of the trunk, curving out and then into the leg of the R.

 

I will never be able to "un-see" that spoon.....

 

Okay, this logo sucks, I just threw it together to give a visual on how to simplify. A logo that tries way too hard looks cheesey.
Just a thought:

 

So I rough inked one and put colors on...

 

I hope you are getting paid for all the time this design is consuming. I would have quote $1000. to solve this design conundrum.