Friends of Gardens Landscaping

Friends of Gardens Landscaping is a Waltham-based landscape design and maintenance company built around owner Eulalio Guevara's eye for planting — and 28 Google reviews, all five stars, keep circling back to the same word: thoughtful. Reviewers describe gardens planned around light exposure and four-season interest, hardscape work finished with the same care as the plantings, and a crew that shows up on schedule and leaves the property spotless. The specifics run deep and current. A June 2026 review described a 'thoughtfully layered' four-season planting design paired with brickwork 'craftsmanship' on the same project. Another homeowner, two-plus years into a relationship with the company as of a late-2025 review, described a progression from an original garden design through ongoing adjustments to regular professional maintenance — 'continually impressed with the vision and creativity.' A fellow garden designer, writing in a 2024 review, called the crew 'consummately professional, very detail oriented, and fast,' saying she leans on them for projects beyond her own scope. Multiple reviews describe hardscape projects specifically — a patio built and a wall repaired in a 2025 job, a patio installed with tree planting and hedge care in a 2023 job — with reviewers calling the finished work 'top notch' and the crew 'expert craftsmen.' Beyond the reviews, the business holds a Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office Minority Business Enterprise certification, active through November 2026, and its own site lists Guevara as accredited in organic land care through the Northeast Organic Farming Association, a Certified Master Gardener with the Massachusetts Master Gardeners Association, and a UMass Green School graduate. The company describes its service area as Newton, Boston and Greater Boston, offering design, hardscape construction, lawn installation and ongoing maintenance. Six reviews in the last six months alone, all five stars, suggest the pattern is holding as the company keeps booking work — a reasonable pick for anyone whose project is design-led planting or a combined hardscape-and-planting job in the Newton/Boston area.