Black Diamond Landscapes

Black Diamond Landscapes is built for the whole property rather than one job. The Woburn company lists landscape maintenance and construction, hardscape and masonry, irrigation, landscape lighting, snow and ice management, and firewood, for residential, commercial and municipal clients around Metropolitan Boston. Joe Cusce, Jr. runs it as president, with Joseph and Justin Cusce named as contacts, and the site puts the company at 15 years in. The written history is short, and it stops early. Both reviews on file were posted in 2022. One came from a client of five-plus years who ran through the whole range — hardscapes, snow removal, sod, mowing, planting, mulching, irrigation — and called the crew hardworking. A June 2022 review described a large project that turned what the homeowner called a mud pit of a yard into planted lawn, with two kinds of arborvitae set along the perimeter. Google's average sits below what those two suggest: 4.1 across 7 ratings. The sour note is a complaint posted to a listing site, with no date on it, from a customer who said rhododendrons they had planted began dying almost immediately and that they dealt with Joe Cusce over several return visits. It is one anonymous account and it can't be placed in time — but plant establishment is a fair thing to raise before signing, along with what happens when something doesn't take. The trade credentials here are the company's own: it names the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute and the National Concrete Masonry Association, both a fit for paver and wall work. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration for the firm and scores it 91, though that is BuildZoom's own record rather than a state confirmation — and Massachusetts exempts landscaping-only contractors from that registration in any case. Neither BuildZoom nor Houzz carries a single customer review. Stated coverage runs Woburn, Arlington, Lexington, Belmont, Winchester, Burlington, Reading and Cambridge. For a crew you keep on the property year-round, the 2022 accounts read well. Ask for current references and a written plant warranty before you commit, because very little has been written about the work since.