Grapes of Wrath Landscaping

Grapes of Wrath Landscaping (also registered as Thomas Wood Landscaping, Inc.) works out of Dedham, covering Needham, Westwood, Dover, and Newton with lawn care, landscape design, construction, and snow removal. How long it's been around depends on where you look — the company's own site and the Better Business Bureau put it at roughly 30 to 34 years, while Angi and HomeAdvisor list 8 years and Houzz says over 10; worth asking directly rather than relying on any one of those figures. The handful of written reviews on file are split. On the positive side, a 2022 Angi review described the owner, Tom, as pleasant and accommodating with scheduling, with a crew that even cleared tree pollen off a deck without being asked; a 2020 review called the company extremely reliable and dependable, and a separate 2022 Google review called it hardworking and dedicated. On the other side, a 2021 Google review described the company going unresponsive after a mowing problem and said items in the yard — old pavers being used to brace things — had been moved without permission, adding that it matched what a previous reviewer had also described. There isn't much written history to weigh this against — four reviews total — so this is one where it's worth asking for recent references directly and being clear about property boundaries and expectations before the crew starts. For routine lawn care or landscape maintenance in the Dedham/Needham area, the record here is mixed: some warm, specific praise alongside a real complaint about respecting a customer's property.