Ponderosa Landscaping

Ponderosa Landscaping is one of the Outer Cape's longest-running landscape firms — a family-run Eastham operation founded by Paul Moore around 1979–1980 that pairs a full design-build-and-maintain landscaping arm with an on-site retail garden center. The business also appears as Ponderosa Landscaping & Stoneworks and under the Saint Aubin Nurseries name, with a second South Dennis location noted on its BBB profile. Nearly five decades on one stretch of Route 6 is rare on Cape Cod, and the written record reads like a firm customers keep for years. The strongest accounts are dated but unusually detailed. In Houzz reviews written between 2016 and 2019, homeowners described a Japanese garden designed and built from scratch, multiple retaining-wall, stairway and walkway projects, an underground sprinkler installation, tree trimming handled 'with care,' and one client with both residential and commercial properties who said the company had worked for them flawlessly over 15 years. Several of those reviews named crew members and praised the ongoing weekly and seasonal maintenance that followed the builds. More recent Google feedback centers on the garden-center side: a January 2026 reviewer called the staff the nicest with amazing prices, and 2023 visitors described attentive, courteous help choosing plants. Across platforms the record is uniformly positive — 4.7 stars from 18 Google ratings, a perfect 5.0 from 7 Houzz reviews, a BBB A+ grade and no complaints or government actions on file. The team page lists a Massachusetts Certified Landscape Professional on staff and describes crews as OSHA-trained, and the Houzz service list runs well beyond mowing — fire pits, water features, pond construction, pool landscaping, edible gardens and full landscape plans. Two things are worth asking about. The company's Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration (174216, held by Ponderosa Nurseries Inc) existed but has expired — much of its work (planting, maintenance, tree care) doesn't require one, but if you're hiring for hardscape construction attached to the house, ask where that registration stands today. And because the detailed landscaping reviews are several years old, ask for recent design-build references; the newer public feedback speaks more to the nursery than to construction. For Lower and Outer Cape homeowners who want one firm to design, install and then keep maintaining a property — with a nursery on site — Ponderosa's longevity, clean complaint record and consistently specific praise make it a strong candidate.