Paper Moon Gardens

Kevin and Leia Richardson are gardeners rather than mow-and-blow landscapers, and their customers write about plants by name. A client in July 2025 needed shrubs dug up and moved out of a bed surrounded by perennials, and wanted someone who would recognise and respect what was already growing there. Another, in May 2025, watched them pivot when lilies of the valley took over the spot that was about to be planted - they cleared the ground and replanned it. Design is the service. A May 2026 client's flower garden was drawn to fit the space and installed smoothly; an April 2026 couple had the dirt patch down the side of their house turned into a garden; a 2024 customer handed over the front of the house and got a planting they called thoughtful and artistic, worked to their budget. People also mention being taught as they went - a 2025 client called Kevin a great teacher, another said he explained exactly what to plant in each area, and a third wrote that he respected how little they knew about gardening. The heavy clearing is in there too. A May 2024 customer had an overgrown, neglected stretch of yard they felt embarrassed about cleared quickly and thoroughly. And the work turns into relationships: a client writing this June has had the pair looking after her front and back gardens for two years, adding perennials each season, and they turned up this spring in the middle of a wild rainstorm. Paper Moon Gardens works out of Reading across Andover, Arlington, Bedford, Belmont, Burlington, Lexington, Lynnfield, Melrose, North Reading, Wakefield, Wilmington and Woburn, doing garden design, planting, pruning, container design and garden coaching. Google shows a five-star average across 16 ratings. If you want a garden designed, replanted or looked after - rather than a lawn mown - this is a two-person outfit that pays attention to what is already in your beds. Ask which of them will be on site for your job, and whether you want a one-off installation or the season-by-season garden care they do for repeat clients.