Starboard Side Landscaping

Starboard Side Landscaping is a South Dennis company the Eldredge family has run since 1988 — Jeffrey Eldredge is president, Laura Eldredge the office manager, and a 2012 profile described the family's landscaping work as running alongside its farming. Today the crew of about ten handles landscape maintenance, irrigation, masonry construction and design, from routine mowing to garden club display work, and the company holds an A+ Better Business Bureau rating with accreditation dating to 2011. One architect's account of a residential project credits the company with wide, layered planting beds that helped a large house settle into its site, along with a patio installation — the kind of design work its BBB listing and website both point to. Recent Google reviews are split: a 2025 review called the staff pleasant and the work good, echoing a 2021 review calling it a great company with good help. But two accounts from 2023 raise a specific, matching complaint — a Google review and a Reddit post from the same week both describe the company mowing lawns that didn't need it and adding charges that weren't agreed to beforehand, calling it a rip-off. A separate 2025 review described one of the company's dump trucks driving recklessly on the road. Porch's own aggregation of reviews scraped from other sites shows a notably lower average for the business, around 3.4 from 20, than Google's 3.6 from 16 — a gap worth a closer look before hiring. For routine landscape maintenance, irrigation or design work, this is a long-running local name — but since more than one account raises the same billing concern, get the scope of a maintenance contract and any add-on charges spelled out in writing before work starts.