JMJ Gardens

The line that keeps coming up about JMJ Gardens is that Justin Jewett actually knows plants. One homeowner wrote in September 2025 that after ten years of full-service landscapers whose crews were afraid to touch anything for fear of pulling a perennial, JMJ was the first to bring her front beds back under control — Justin could name her keeper plants and her weeds on sight. The company works out of Newbury on the Newburyport Turnpike, and says it has been at this for about ten years, run by Justin, built around organic methods, native plantings, and fine gardening rather than mow-and-blow maintenance. It serves the Newburyport area and takes on both residential and commercial work — one 2025 reviewer hired the crew for a restaurant's plantings. The review history is deep for a garden shop and very current: 4.9★ across 30 Google ratings, 4.8★ over 24 Thumbtack reviews with 30 hires, and seven new reviews in the past six months, all positive. This spring and summer customers described a rebuilt front walkway and step with drainage fixes, and a new retaining wall faced in decorative stone — so the range runs past planting into hardscape. In mid-2025 reviews, a homeowner building a custom house recounted meeting a dozen landscapers who all pushed irrigation systems; Justin was the one who listened and proposed the low-water clover-blend lawn she wanted before she asked. The one blemish: in July 2025, a multi-unit property client wrote that the crew arrived a day early without notice and only weed-whacked the parking lot instead of digging out the invasive root systems they were hired to remove. It sits alone against an otherwise clean run, but for a larger or commercial job it is fair grounds to pin down scope and schedule in writing first. JMJ is the right call when plant knowledge is the point — garden design, native plantings, organic care, or rescuing overgrown beds — with Justin himself on site rather than a rotating crew. Thumbtack lists a four-person team and a background check completed for Jewett in 2024; for hardscape or a full lawn install, ask to see a recent similar project and get the scope in writing.