Christie Dustman & Company, Inc.

Christie Dustman & Company is a Boston landscape design firm led by Christie Dustman, who the company says personally oversees projects alongside a small team of designers, including Sarah Rabdau and, more recently, Carol Moyles. Christie herself holds several professional credentials — Nationally Certified Landscape Designer, Massachusetts Certified Horticulturalist, Massachusetts Certified Landscape Professional, and Accredited Organic Land Care Professional — and the company's own description centers on garden design, hardscape construction, pruning, landscape lighting, and Japanese-inspired garden work rather than routine lawn maintenance. Every review found across Google and Houzz, eleven of them from 2022 through 2025, is five stars, and the specifics point to a design-led practice rather than an installation crew working off a template. A 2022 review described a sloping front yard with a drainage problem turned into what the reviewer called a remarkable garden that resolved every issue while raising the property's overall look. A 2025 review credited designer Carol Moyles with reshaping an entire yard the year before; a separate 2025 review, describing a 2023 project, credited designer Sarah Rabdau with a "spectacular" finished landscape. One especially telling 2023 review came from a client of twelve years, who said installations from over a decade earlier were still thriving — a claim about durability that's hard to fake and speaks directly to the quality of the underlying plant selection and site work, not just the finished look on installation day. Several other reviews describe repeat, ongoing relationships rather than one-time jobs: one client described hiring Christie's crew "on numerous occasions" and referring her to others who were consistently pleased; another described two separate garden installations on their property that have continued to mature and improve for years afterward. There isn't a negative account anywhere in the eleven reviews on file, which — combined with the professional certifications and a track record that includes plantings still thriving more than a decade later — points to a firm built for clients who want a genuinely designed landscape rather than a standard planting package. For garden design, hardscape, and landscape lighting work in Boston and the surrounding neighborhoods — West Roxbury, Brookline, Jamaica Plain, Newton, Cambridge — this is a small, design-focused practice with deep, specific praise and real longevity behind the work it does.