SavATree - Tree Service & Lawn Care

SavATree in Lincoln handles the tree work homeowners can't do themselves — pruning, removals, stump grinding, disease treatment — plus lawn and tick/deer-control programs, and its site says the branch has served Metro West and the Boston suburbs for 26 years (elsewhere on the same site it says 45, so the exact figure is worth asking about). The volume here is real: 144 reviews stretch back to 2008 across seven sources, and Google alone shows 4.9★ from 487 ratings. Recent reviews keep naming the same people — arborist John Fenton and his crew, Derek M. for plant-health visits, Rafael for tree-pruning quotes, Geoff Davis on the lawn side — with specific stories: a beech tree treated for leaf disease, ten stumps ground and cleaned up in one visit, a badly pruned specimen tree nursed back into shape. That kind of repeat, named praise across different service lines is unusual for a company this size. It isn't spotless. A recent review from August 2026 said the actual pruning was excellent but no one showed up for the original appointment; a March 2025 review describes the same pattern — a confirmed appointment, no arborist, no call. On the lawn side, a July 2026 review reports yellow grass despite daily watering and paid treatments, and an October 2025 review describes a $3,500 annual lawn contract that left the yard "a sand pit filled with weeds." Its BBB page — B+, accredited — lists 16 complaints on file. Older accounts add more texture: a 2013 review on Angi describes a crew trampling and damaging garden beds during a shrub-trimming job, and an undated BBB review describes declining service and billing questions after the business changed local ownership. Before booking, it's worth confirming who's actually showing up and when — the no-show pattern surfaces more than once — and, if signing an annual lawn program, getting clear on what results it promises. For tree work specifically, the volume and specificity of praise for named arborists is hard to ignore; for ongoing lawn care, the record is more mixed.