Brandon Landscaping, Inc.

Brandon Landscaping handles the yard work for a wide stretch of the South Shore — Pembroke, Marshfield, Duxbury, Kingston, and a dozen towns around them — and the thing that keeps surfacing across reviews is attention to detail on the routine stuff: weekly mowing, fall cleanups, edging, mulch. The company says Stephen Brandon started it in 2009 with a push mower and grew it into a full landscape-and-hardscape operation; Brandon still owns and runs it today. On Google, 85 ratings average 4.7 stars, and the BBB lists the business at an A+ grade (it isn't seeking accreditation). Customers who've stuck around for years — some for five-plus seasons — describe a crew that shows up on schedule and clears its own debris, and the same names come up for bigger jobs too: retaining walls, paver patios, and full yard replacements with irrigation layered on top of the weekly mowing route. The last six months complicate that picture, though: of ten Google reviews posted since January, three are one-star. One customer says a crew arrived to apply fertilizer without notice and left both yard gates open, and a dog got loose in the process — a real safety lapse, not a minor gripe. Another describes mowing consistency slipping over the course of a season, along with flowers planted that weren't what was discussed. A third calls a spring cleanup a complete horror show, citing a large crew that made a mess quickly and poor communication throughout. Unauthorized fertilizer treatments aren't a single incident, either — it's a complaint that turns up more than once across the review history. Before booking, it's worth pinning down exactly what a maintenance visit includes and getting add-on treatments like fertilizer confirmed in writing, since more than one recent complaint centers on work done without a green light. If the crew will be on-site while you're out — gates, pets, deliveries — it's also worth spelling out access expectations given the account above. Brandon Landscaping is a reasonable call for a South Shore homeowner who wants one company to run the weekly lawn and eventually take on a bigger hardscape project — the retaining-wall and patio work described here reads as more than a basic mow-and-blow operation. Just get the scope of each visit in writing and ask directly about the gate and notification issue before handing over a key or access code.