Landscape America

The first thing a homeowner should know about Landscape America is that it is no longer aimed at homeowners. Its own site now describes a commercial-only landscape and snow-and-ice management contractor with offices in Wrentham and Hudson and a staff of more than 100, serving corporate, assisted-living, industrial, retail, hospitality, college, healthcare and cemetery properties across Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Brothers Doug and Andy McDuff started it in 2006, and BBB grades it A+ without accreditation. Its glowing older reviews come from a different era of the company. Between 2014 and 2017 it collected 24 five-star HomeAdvisor reviews for residential work: a 45-foot retaining wall that solved a backyard erosion problem in 2014, a front-garden rebuild in 2017, a $70,000 install whose planting a 2016 customer said had lost under 2% of its plants after several seasons. A May 2016 Houzz reviewer described the crew quietly re-excavating clay under a paving-stone driveway to protect its drainage, at no extra charge. That is genuinely strong work — but the newest of those accounts is nearly nine years old. The current record is thinner and more mixed. Google publishes 3.0 from four ratings. On the good side, a June 2026 customer says the company has serviced their commercial properties for a long time and works all season, and a June 2025 customer credits Dan Curtin and the team with attention to detail and reliable follow-up on snow and landscaping. On the other, two of the three most recent reviews are complaints. In June 2026 a customer wrote that a mulch installation left freshly dyed bark and colouring sprayed and tracked across a newly power-washed patio, splattered on a white vinyl fence and spread over several areas of the property, and was unhappy with the company's response after the account manager was shown the damage. In April 2026 a resident of an apartment complex the company services complained that fertiliser and pesticide applications are made without warning, get spread over the concrete walkways and leave their dog walking through them. A BBB reviewer separately complains that company trucks use roads posted against through trucking. Certifications are real and worth weighing: Massachusetts Certified Landscape Professionals and Massachusetts Certified Arborists are on staff, the company holds an ICPI credential and belongs to the National Association of Landscape Professionals. For a condo association, business park or property manager this is a serious operator with two decades behind it. For a single house, expect to be routed to their commercial focus — and if you do hire them for spraying, ask in writing how you will be notified before an application.