B & S Landscaping & Tree Removal Services LLC

B & S Landscaping & Tree Removal Services, run by Robin out of Chelsea, splits its work fairly evenly between everyday landscaping — cleanups, mulching, planting, lawn reseeding — and tree work that ranges from routine trimming to genuinely difficult removals. The company's own site says it has been in business 15 years and covers roughly 40 miles around Chelsea; its BBB profile, by contrast, shows a file opened in April 2026 that BBB rates as too new to score, which doesn't match either the 15-year claim or the Google reviews, which themselves run back to 2023. The tree work is where the specific, technical praise concentrates. A 2024 review described a 25-foot Japanese tree trimmed in a tight spot between two East Boston houses, with Robin explaining each cut so the tree would grow straight; another, also from 2024, described two trees — one very tall, one broad-branched — cut down about three feet from a house without a mark on the siding or fences. A 2023 review described a Boston job most other companies had turned down because of the climbing skill required, and a separate 2023 review credited the crew with removing a rotting tree before it could fall on the house in a storm. A 2026 review described a 35-foot maple cut into 24-inch rounds and carried down a 50-foot incline by hand. Speed comes up constantly too: reviewers describe same-day quotes, crews arriving within 20 minutes of a call, and urgent post-storm removals finished the same day. On the landscaping side, a 2026 review described an overgrown, steep hillside cleared and heavily mulched since it was too steep for fabric; a 2024 review described a neglected lawn cleaned, reseeded, and a stone path laid along the side of a house; and a 2023 review described a small job replanting flower beds with fresh soil and perennials. Robin himself gets named specifically and often — reviewers across every year on file describe him as communicative before and after a job, honest about pricing, and willing to explain his reasoning rather than just doing the work silently. Pricing is called fair or reasonable often enough, across both tree work and landscaping, that it reads as a real pattern. There's essentially no negative account here — 39 of 40 reviews on file are five stars, and the one four-star review still describes a job done on schedule with good communication throughout. For tree work of real difficulty, or landscaping cleanups and planting anywhere within about 40 miles of Chelsea, this is a company with an unusually deep and specific run of praise; the only thing worth squaring away is how long the business has actually operated, since its own claim and its BBB profile don't line up.