Friends of Gardens Landscaping

Twenty-eight Google ratings, a 5.0 average, and the same first name in nearly every one of them: Eulalio. Friends of Gardens Landscaping is a residential and commercial landscaping company that says it works Newton, Boston and Greater Boston, doing design, hardscape construction, lawn installation and ongoing maintenance. The company says it was founded and is owned by Eulalio Guevara, who also handles sales and customer relations, and it states accreditation in organic land care from the Northeast Organic Farming Association along with a Massachusetts Master Gardeners Association Master Gardener certification. Those are the company's own claims. What customers describe is a crew hired once for a project and then kept on. A homeowner writing in November 2025 recounted two-plus years with them, running from a garden design through the build and into regular maintenance. A 2023 reviewer listed a patio, planted trees, hedge work and a reseeded lawn from a single season. Another, in a May 2025 review, had them build a patio and repair a wall, and noted the property was left spotless. The planting work draws the most specific praise. A June 2026 customer described a layered, four-season scheme with brickwork tied into it; a July 2025 customer counted about 30 plants installed in a day in summer heat. In a 2024 review, a working garden designer wrote that she hands them the projects that run past her own scope, which is a pointed thing to say about a subcontractor when your own clients are watching. Worth asking about before you call: in an August 2025 review, a homeowner recounted Eulalio telling her plainly that he is not a designer, though he made suggestions she liked. Several of the jobs in the reviews were built to someone else's plan, a landscape architect's in one May 2025 account and a nursery design group's in another. If you want the design originated in-house rather than executed from a drawing, ask how that works. The written history runs 2023 through 2026, with six reviews in the last six months and no complaints among them, so the pattern is current rather than a stale burst. Massachusetts exempts landscaping-only contractors from home improvement contractor registration, so there is no registration to look for here. This is the call for planting design, seasonal cleanups and patio-and-wall hardscape on a property you plan to keep tending rather than a one-off tidy-up. Confirm insurance, and get the plant list and the schedule in writing before booking.