Green Urb Gardens

A north-facing moss bed where nothing much would grow is now a shade garden — the customer who wrote that in May 2026 attached a photo. Green Urb Gardens works out of Waltham and describes itself as a small Greater Boston horticulture team: ecological garden design, installation and year-round maintenance, native and non-native plants, no chemicals. Its stated service area runs from Watertown, Newton and Belmont out through Cambridge, Lexington, Concord and a dozen more towns. Meghan is the name customers use, usually with "her team" or "her crew" attached, and six of the fourteen people who have written reviews since 2022 reach for the same word: knowledgeable. Much of the work is the steady kind. A May 2026 reviewer thanked them for spring cleanup and advice on fighting invasive weeds; a customer writing in November 2025, with the crew since 2020, described pruning, weeding and transplanting across mature bushes, trees and long-established perennial beds. They design as well as tend. Another November 2025 review describes three new back-yard beds, each with a different sun exposure and watering challenge, built toward an "English garden" look; an April 2025 customer had new plantings designed and installed along with irrigation, and a 2022 reviewer had a front lawn slope turned into a garden. Across 28 Google ratings the average is 5 stars, and a College for Social Innovation post from October 2025 singled the company out for native-plant gardening. Working with them looks like a conversation rather than a fixed package: an April 2026 customer came out of a consultation having been offered several tiers of ways to work together, so ask which tier fits your yard and your budget, and keep the design fee and the planting costs written down separately. If you want a garden built around native plants and tended through the season rather than a single cleanup, this is their kind of job. Settle the visit schedule and what each visit covers before the season starts, and confirm insurance for any larger installation work.