Darden Tree & Landscaping LLC

Darden Tree & Landscaping is a Hyde Park, Boston tree company that also does landscape maintenance and snow removal. Thomas Darden became a professional arborist in 1992 and expanded into Darden's Tree and Landscaping in 1999, and the business still runs the way that history suggests: customers deal with Darden himself, and the crews work directly with him. The company offers 24-hour emergency tree service and covers Boston and the surrounding area. Tree removal is what people write about, and the accounts are unusually concrete. A 2023 customer described a 45-foot maple over a century old, rotted through the core, with a trunk close to five feet across, taken down safely from beside the house over three days - with the crew clearing every day's debris before leaving and grinding out the stump and the largest roots afterwards. In January 2026 another homeowner with several tall trees leaning toward the house, one of which had already come down on a new vinyl fence, said Darden came out straight away, quoted on the spot, and had the trees and stumps out within a day or two of the call. Speed of response is the other recurring theme. A customer who had waited months for other arborists said Darden's answered immediately and finished the job inside a week over the winter holidays. Another had a dead tree taken out within days in winter and called the price reasonable. A third saw the crew working in the neighbourhood and got a small job done the next day. Cleanup gets specific mention more than once. Even a homeowner who did not hire them - they had already had stumps ground down elsewhere and decided against more work - wrote that Darden's quote was very fairly priced and that they would call him first next time. Two things to weigh. Google's overall score is 4.0 across 20 ratings, while the eight written reviews on file are all four or five stars, so a portion of the rating comes from people who left a score without saying why. And the written record is thin for a business of this age - eight comments spread across four years. For hazardous or oversized tree removal in the Boston area, especially where a tree is threatening a structure, this is a specialist with a long arborist history and detailed accounts of exactly that work. Ask what the quote covers for stump grinding, root removal and daily cleanup before you book.