EJB Designs, LLC

EJB Designs is a one-person landscape architecture practice — Erik Bednarek, listed in Mansfield with a second address on the Boston Providence Highway in Norwood. The distinction from a landscaping crew matters: this is the person who draws the plan, sets the grades and lays out the pool, patio and planting, then hands it to builders. The posted work is estate-scale. Four projects on Houzz include a Sheldonville estate in Wrentham and a cottage in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, with five more photos on BuildZoom. The service list runs from landscape plans and garden design through hardscaping and patio design, pool landscaping and swimming pool design, water features, outdoor kitchens, gazebos and drought-tolerant, sustainable planting — plus the consulting end: irrigation, and snow and landscape management programs. The credentials on its Houzz page are the company's own entries rather than anything confirmed: an Emily Seaber Parcher award for best design, an ALCM hardscape award, an Edmund Mezzit award for distinctive use of plants, a Garden Club Federation design-excellence citation, and Massachusetts Horticultural Society gold and bronze medals. BBB grades the firm A+ without accrediting it, and records the LLC as ten years old with a single employee. One thing to settle first. Houzz and BuildZoom both list Massachusetts landscape architect number 1508 for the practice, but BuildZoom marks it "License Not Verified" and shows a last-seen expiration of January 2025 — so check the current standing with the state board of registration before signing. No client has written a review on any of these pages, so no rating is given here. For a design-led job, ask to visit one or two finished landscapes and to see a complete plan set from a comparable property.