J.M. McLaughlin Landscaping

James McLaughlin started his landscaping company in Lincoln in 2023, after growing up in nearby Lexington and working at his father's excavation business — and the Google record since then, 17 ratings averaging 4.9 stars, reads like a steady run of maintenance work done well. In a 2025 review, one customer had him fill patio pavers with polymeric sand and pull weeds, and called him easy to reach and friendly to deal with. In a 2024 review, another described a full-yard overhaul — fall and spring cleaning, a new lawn installed over large areas, and a variety of bushes and flowers planted — and said every task was finished to their satisfaction. A different 2024 review described him plowing a driveway over the winter and then moving into ongoing landscape care for the same property, with the homeowner praising how carefully he listened to specific requests. The one review that isn't a flat five stars is still a clear thumbs-up: a 2024 four-star rating from a customer who called the pricing reasonable and said McLaughlin responds even to requests outside the regular schedule — a small sign this isn't a set-it-and-forget-it maintenance contract but someone who answers the phone. A review posted this past August was similarly upbeat, though brief. The company's own site says it focuses on Lexington and the surrounding towns, offering everything from landscape construction and planting to snow removal and power washing — though outside the one 2024 plowing mention, what customers describe is mostly ongoing yard maintenance rather than larger construction jobs. Landscaping doesn't require a Massachusetts state contractor license, so there's nothing to verify there; worth confirming project scope and scheduling directly with James, since the written record so far sits almost entirely on Google.