a Blade of Grass

A Blade of Grass has been designing and building residential landscapes out of Sudbury since 1994, growing by its own account from a single truck into a full design-build-maintenance operation covering Weston, Wayland, Dover, Wellesley, Needham, Chestnut Hill, Brookline, and the wider MetroWest and Cape Cod market. Design work is where the company's reputation is built: it has picked up an APLD (Association of Professional Landscape Designers) award nearly every year from 2020 through 2024, including a 2023 Best in Show, plus a 2021 Best of Boston Home nod. That recognition lines up with what homeowners report elsewhere — 4.9 stars from 32 ratings on Google and 4.7 from 20 on Houzz, both consistent across platforms for a company this established. Recent reviews describe more than a one-time install. One client of more than a decade credits the team, naming designers Miriam, Scott, and Joanna directly, with turning "projects of all scales" into results worth returning for. Another this spring singled out the lighting, irrigation, and gardening crews as responsive and detail-oriented, and a winter review called out the snow removal team specifically for showing up through difficult conditions with proactive updates on timing. BBB has accredited the business since 2003 and currently rates it A+, though its own profile shows only two visible reviews, both positive, with no complaint count listed. That isn't the whole picture — a review outside BBB describes a client left with an unfinished project and no resolution, which is worth raising directly, especially around plant-survival guarantees and completion timelines on larger jobs. For a homeowner planning a design-led landscape project rather than routine mowing, three decades of history and consistent, cross-platform ratings make a Blade of Grass a serious option — just get warranty terms and a completion timeline in writing before signing on for anything substantial.