Shady Tree Landscape & Irrigation Inc

Shady Tree is one of the older landscape outfits on this stretch of the South Shore: the Norwood company says Gregory Kay started it in 1991 and his brother Doug came aboard in 1994, and it now runs more than 25 full and part-time staff across residential, commercial and municipal grounds work, plus commercial snow and ice removal through the winter. It is built in divisions rather than as a one-crew shop. On Houzz the company credits Todd Cullen with landscape construction and Peter Roberto with irrigation and lighting, and its 36-service list runs from patios, paver work and retaining walls through outdoor kitchens, fire pits, water features and landscape lighting to routine maintenance — with 35 towns claimed across the Norwood, Newton and Quincy area. Houzz also lists Cullen as a Massachusetts Certified Landscape Professional and the company as a member of the national and New England irrigation associations and the Snow and Ice Management Association; those are the profile's own entries, not credentials confirmed here. The part a homeowner will want and won't find is the customer voice. Its Houzz page carries no reviews at all — four project galleries and a long service list, but nobody writing about how a job actually went. That is why there is no rating here. If you are pricing a hardscape build or a full-property irrigation and lighting system and want a company with staff depth and a long history behind it, this is a reasonable one to call. Ask for references from jobs like yours in your own town, ask which division would own the work, and ask Todd Cullen's certification and the association memberships to be shown to you directly.