JR's Landscaping & Sons

JR's Landscaping & Sons is the kind of outfit people hire once and then keep calling back. A homeowner writing in April 2025 had them build a front walkway years earlier and returned for a cobblestone driveway extension; another, in November 2024, moved from a few years of mowing and seasonal cleanups to a paver pathway running from the driveway back to the shed. The Burlington company says it has been maintaining Middlesex County properties since 1997 — 29 years by its own count — and describes itself as family operated, naming Orlando Rodrigues as operations manager, Paul Pacheco on hardscape and Justin Rodrigues in irrigation. Google carries 155 ratings at a 5-star average, and the written history goes back to 2021. Two kinds of work come up again and again in what customers describe: hardscape — patios, walkways, retaining walls, steps — and irrigation. In June 2026 a homeowner described a full front-yard makeover, new walkway, new lawn, irrigation and planting beds, with Orlando on site every morning to check the work. A November 2025 patio was finished in three days, with paver samples brought out the day of and a curved bump-out suggested in front of the landing. On a retaining wall that same month, the customer inquired one day, had someone there the next to talk through an estimate, got questions answered within 24 hours, and then watched the masonry team arrive several days earlier than predicted. A September 2025 job extended an existing patio, matched a new one to it, built a foundation for a hot tub and took on coordinating the homeowner's own electrician and carpenter. Irrigation is a separate division on the company's site, and one name keeps surfacing in those reviews: Marcelo. He explained how the irrigation system worked to a customer in July 2025, fixed another's system the same month, and in June 2025 re-checked and adjusted sprinklers after a fence installation disrupted the original mapping; an August 2024 customer had him resolve an irrigation problem a previous company could not. The routine work draws quieter praise — a January 2025 customer singled out how thorough the spring clean-up was and called the prices for that and the lawn cutting reasonable. Worth sorting out before you call: how far each division travels. The company puts hardscaping within roughly 30 miles of Burlington, focuses commercial snow and ice work on Burlington and the towns immediately around it, and limits weekly residential lawn routes to Burlington and Lexington, with a stated service area that also names Bedford, Woburn, Concord, Arlington, Winchester and Billerica. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #209829, is active on the state registry. For a patio, walkway, retaining wall or an irrigation system around Burlington, this is a crew with a long line of repeat customers behind it — ask which division covers your town, and get the scope priced in writing first, the way a 2023 customer described a thorough walk of the property and a detailed quote of the options.