Szczechowicz Landscape Services, Inc.

Szczechowicz Landscape Services (SLS) is a Rowley, Massachusetts landscape contractor that traces its roots to 1975, incorporated in 2007 and now run under owner Joseph Szczechowicz with a crew of 23. Its work spans design-build hardscape — patios, retaining walls, outdoor fireplaces and kitchens — alongside planting, garden maintenance, irrigation, lighting, and commercial-only snow removal, backed by a stack of trade credentials: Massachusetts Certified Landscape Professionals, Massachusetts Certified Arborists, membership in PLANET, and SIMA snow-and-ice certification. The written record is a decade-plus old but consistently favorable: HomeAdvisor shows a 4.7-star average across eight reviews, every one dated between 2007 and 2012. In a 2010 review, a homeowner described the crew coming up with creative planting solutions to handle a yard with a high water table; in a 2009 review, another described the job finishing quickly despite bad weather, done exactly as quoted, with a full cleanup. One 2009 account did flag a smaller miss — a promised follow-up call and a planting that was supposed to happen at project completion never did. Its Better Business Bureau profile has carried an A+ grade since accreditation began in 1997, and no complaints show on that page. The one thing worth noting is that the written customer reviews on file stop in 2012 — recent enough to speak to the company's long-run reputation, but not to how the crew is performing today, so a homeowner considering a larger design-build project would do well to ask for photos or references from recent work.