Hegarty's Landscaping

A three-person outfit on Turnpike Street in North Andover, built around the season rather than the showpiece. Hegarty's Landscaping describes itself as family owned and operated, and the Better Business Bureau dates the business to January 2014. The service list reads like a year-round grounds contract: weekly and bi-weekly lawn maintenance, spring and fall cleanups, fertilizer programs, mulching, hedge trimming, pruning, brush removal and chipping, gutter cleaning — then residential and commercial snow plowing once the season turns. Installation work sits alongside it: hydroseeding, lawn installation, planting, landscape lighting and retaining walls. The territory is tight — Andover, North Andover and the towns around them. One thing to know before calling: the Better Business Bureau has not given the company a letter grade, and says plainly that it does not have enough information about the business to issue one. If you want one crew handling mowing, cleanups, fertilizer and the driveway in February on a single contract, this is that shape of business. Ask for a few local references and a written seasonal scope before you sign.