Brandon Landscaping, Inc. is a South Shore Massachusetts landscaping and hardscaping company founded in 2009 by Stephen (Steve) Brandon, who started as a one-man operation with a push mower and has grown the business to serve towns across the region, including Pembroke, Kingston, Hanover, Plymouth, Duxbury, Marshfield, Scituate, Norwell, Hingham, Hull, Braintree, Weymouth, Quincy, Hanson, and Halifax. The company offers landscape design, hardscape construction such as patios, walkways, and retaining walls, land clearing and site prep, lawn installs, and seasonal snow removal. The Better Business Bureau lists the business at an A+ grade.
The written record is overwhelmingly positive across dozens of reviews from 2022 through 2026. Long-tenured customers — several describing multi-year relationships spanning weekly mowing, seasonal cleanups, and larger hardscape projects — repeatedly praise the crew's reliability, attention to detail, communication, and fair pricing, with many naming Stephen personally as hands-on and responsive. Specific praise covers retaining wall construction, patio work, full yard replacements with irrigation, hydroseeding, and fall cleanups, with several reviewers calling the fall cleanup procedure particularly thorough.
Set against that long record is a cluster of negative reviews concentrated in the past several months. A 2026 review reported a crew arriving unannounced to apply a second round of fertilizer, leaving both fence gates open and a dog briefly missing. A separate 2025 review described a similar breakdown: the customer had explicitly asked, in person and by text, not to receive fertilizer treatments, but the crew applied it twice anyway. Together these two accounts, months apart, point to a real communication gap around scheduling and honoring customer instructions for fertilizer visits, rather than an isolated incident. Separately, a 2026 review described service quality declining partway through the season after a strong start, and another described a spring cleanup marred by poor communication and an incomplete result. One additional 2025 review raised a complaint unrelated to the quality of the landscaping work itself and is not reflected here as a service concern.
Recent activity over the last six months includes ten reviews, three of them negative — a higher negative rate than the long-run record, which is reflected in the current read. Google's own listing shows a 4.7-star average from 85 ratings, consistent with the long-run positive majority; the recent cluster of complaints is a genuine, if still minority, departure from that pattern.
