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Verified record
License not state-verified. We could not confirm a current registration in the state registry. Insurance is self-reported.
Highlights
- Retaining walls — consistently praised for quality and durability
- Drainage solutions — resolved longstanding yard drainage in hardscape work
- Hands-on owner — Joe personally guides design through installation
- Tidy crews — reviewers note clean, neat job sites
- Unfinished project — a 2024 customer reported incomplete work, no follow-up
JM Mento Landscape Design is a Holbrook, MA landscape design-build shop that homeowners call for patios, retaining walls, and the drainage problems that come with them. The company says owner Joe Mento has over 20 years of landscape design and construction experience across the South Shore, Greater Boston, and Cape Cod, and that his crew is in-house rather than subcontracted. Across 25 Google reviews from 2022 through 2025, a pattern repeats: homeowners hire Joe for a patio or retaining wall and end up describing a drainage issue that finally got fixed along the way. One reviewer said drainage work 'you will never know it's there'; another credited him with a solution that 'exceeded expectations' after other approaches failed. The jobs described range from a three-day artificial-turf and rock-scaping overhaul to multi-day retaining wall and stone-step builds, several finished ahead of schedule or on budget. In a 2024 review, one customer described a different experience: the crew left a patio project 90-95% finished in the fall, was paid the remaining half after promising a spring return, then went unreachable by phone, text, and email for more than three months. It's the one account in an otherwise consistent record, but worth asking about directly - get a written completion date and payment schedule before the balance goes out. For a homeowner planning a patio, retaining wall, or drainage fix on the South Shore, the reviews point to a hands-on owner and crews that leave sites clean - just confirm the finish-work and payment terms in writing up front.
What does landscaping cost in Greater Boston?
Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from JM Mento Landscape Design. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
Estimated range
$50 – $70
Typical landscaping service around $60
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