Lawn Jon Services Inc

Lawn Jon Services is a family-owned outfit whose reputation rests on hardscape work — patios, retaining walls, fencing, and sod — as much as on routine lawn care. The company lists its base at 1 Main St in Waltham, and per its BBB filing has operated since February 2017. On Google, 67 ratings average 4.9 stars, and forty-five reviews stretching back to 2022 return to the same throughline: Jon shows up, communicates, and gets the harder masonry-and-hardscape jobs right. The last six months alone brought fourteen reviews with no negatives among them. One patio job stood out for the crew's patience — multiple passes with a power compactor and hand-swept polymeric sand rather than a rushed pass. Another recent client had a full patio installed "on time, as stated and with precision." A homeowner who'd left a corner of the yard neglected for years came back after Jon's crew planted privacy trees and turned it around. The same crew shows up off-season too — this year's reviews credit them for careful ice-dam removal and hard winter plowing, not just summer hardscape and mulch runs. Two things are worth a direct question before booking. One of the five-star Google reviews is from a fellow landscaping/irrigation contractor describing an ongoing working partnership with Jon, not a homeowner's own finished job — read it as a professional reference rather than a client account. And Lawn Jon's BBB profile lists the business under a Maynard, MA address with nine years in business, a different town from the Waltham address on its own website and Google listing; the phone number matches both, but which town the business actually runs out of isn't settled here. Massachusetts doesn't license landscaping-only contractors, so there's no separate registry to check that against. For a hardscape project — a new patio, a retaining wall, a fence — or for a homeowner who wants one crew for mowing, mulching, and winter plowing, the pattern across five years of reviews holds up. Get the current business address and a written scope before the crew shows up, since that's the one loose thread here.