CATALDO LANDSCAPE & MASON INC

Cataldo Landscape & Mason Inc is a Needham company that has stayed in one family for three generations, pairing masonry work with landscape and lawn care. The company says Jerry Cataldo, who has more than 40 years in the trade, now runs it day to day and oversees every project from the first consultation through completion. Its Houzz profile lists a broad range of hands-on work: stone walls, brick and bluestone patios, pool-area work, sod and seed lawn installations, shrub transplanting, irrigation systems, pruning, weeding and insect spraying, backhoe work, and snow plowing. The stated service area runs from Needham and Wellesley out through Newton, Weston, Natick, Waltham, Dover, Medfield and Boston. One thing worth asking about directly: the company's own account of how long it's been operating varies — a 1978 founding on one page, 'nearly 40 years' and 'over thirty-one years' on others — so it's worth pinning down how long the current ownership has actually run it. For a family masonry and landscape outfit at this scale, get a written scope that separates the stonework from routine lawn care, and confirm licensing and insurance before signing on.