Sweetgum Horticulture

Sweetgum Horticulture is a landscape design and garden care studio based in Natick, run by Catherine Volić, its president and principal designer. The company focuses on ecological, sustainable landscape work — garden design, hardscaping, and organic gardening — for homeowners across the Metro West Boston towns of Wellesley, Weston, Newton, Needham, Natick, Wayland, Lincoln, Dover, Sherborn, Sudbury, and Framingham. The clearest signal on record is a five-star Google review from March 2026: a homeowner called the backyard landscape Volić designed for them a pleasure to live with year-round, and said working with her was easy. She's also been quoted as a landscaping voice in the press — a 2024 Boston Globe piece on removing lawn grass economically turned to her for practical advice, a sign the trade recognizes her expertise beyond her own client base. What's worth knowing before calling: the written record here is thin — just one review is on file so far, and the company's Houzz profile, while listing a detailed services and service-area breakdown, doesn't yet show any customer reviews. That's not unusual for a design-focused studio that grows mostly by referral, but it means there's less to go on than for a contractor with a longer public track record. Sweetgum looks like the right call for a homeowner who wants an ecologically minded, design-led approach to their yard rather than routine lawn maintenance — worth asking about current availability and how a project typically starts, given the limited public history to gauge turnaround from.