River Stone Landscape

River Stone Landscape started in 1999 as a small lawn maintenance company — a way to pay for college, the company says — and now describes itself as a South Shore design-build landscape business, handling lawn care and irrigation at one end and hardscape, outdoor lighting and winter snow removal at the other, for homes and businesses alike. It works a tight stretch of coast out of Scituate: Cohasset, Norwell, Hingham, Hull, Hanover, Duxbury and Marshfield. By its own count that adds up to 27 years in the same corner of Massachusetts. Paver work is where the company has put its credential. Its own site and its Houzz profile both list ICPI certification — Interlocking Concrete Paver Installer — and it also states a landscape design certification. Online, a commenter has thanked the company publicly for its community work. If you want one company to design a patio or walkway and then keep the lawn and irrigation running afterwards, this is a sensible South Shore call. Ask to walk a paver job that has been through a few winters, and get the design fee, the construction scope and the snow-removal terms priced separately before you sign anything.