Andrew Thomas & Sons Landscaping

Andrew Thomas & Sons Landscaping has run out of the same stretch of Randolph Avenue in Milton since 1948, which puts it among the more established landscape operations on the South Shore. It's a family business: the company says current owner Bunny Thomas took over from his father in 1975 and, in 1997, added a full-service garden center to the original nursery. It now fields three landscaping crews and two masonry teams, splitting its work between design-and-install landscaping jobs and a retail nursery selling plants, trees, and hardscape materials. On Google it holds a 4.7 out of 5 across 40 ratings, and outside directories echo the same pattern — write-ups on Consumers' Checkbook and Birdeye describe repeat customers calling the crew knowledgeable, professional, and good to work with, whether the job is residential or commercial. It's also a BBB-accredited business with an A+ rating, a status it has held since 1998. A strong Google average, consistent third-party mentions, and a decades-long BBB record together point to a genuinely long, steady track record rather than a short run of good luck. One recurring theme worth knowing about is nursery pricing: a few customers shopping the retail garden center for plants and pots have felt the prices run higher than other nurseries or big-box competitors. That's a comment about the retail side of the business, not the quality of installed landscaping work, but it's worth a quick price check if you're sourcing plants or materials through them. For a full landscape build — design, installation, hardscaping, or masonry — the long in-house history and clean BBB record are the reassuring parts of the picture. If the job is mainly buying stock from the nursery, comparing a price or two elsewhere first is a reasonable step; for a design-and-install project, the decades of local operation carry more weight than any single price comparison.