The Lawn & Pool Associates

The Lawn & Pool Associates has been Dedham's landscape contractor for 27 years, according to its Better Business Bureau listing, under president Robert Zahka. The BBB rates the company A+ and lists its work as landscaping, lawn maintenance, installation, mulching, mowing, planting, trimming and pruning, weeding, and recreational fields — a wide maintenance and installation practice rather than a single specialty. There's no independent customer account here yet to say what people who actually hired the crew experienced, and the company has never sought BBB accreditation, so it's worth asking for references and recent job examples before booking. For long-tenured lawn and landscape maintenance in the Dedham area, the tenure and the BBB grade are a reasonable starting point — fill in the rest with a few calls of your own.