Xcel Landscape Design & Hardscape Inc.

Sixty-eight Google reviews and one name comes up in nearly all of them: Diego. Xcel Landscape Design & Hardscape is a Methuen crew built around Diego Chavez, hired across the Merrimack Valley for the recurring seasonal work — spring and fall cleanups, mowing, mulching, hedge trimming — plus the occasional hardscape job like stone edging around a pool or a 200-foot drainage pipe. The volume is unusual for a landscaper: 69 Google ratings averaging five stars, 26 of them posted in the last six months with none negative. It isn't a recent surge — the pattern holds back to 2022. Reviewers describe the same specifics year after year: crews showing up on time, working straight through the day, and cleaning up debris before leaving. In a 2025 review, a homeowner with a backyard drainage problem said Diego's crew worked through 90-degree heat to lay a 200-foot pipe, then came back on a separate visit to clear shrubs. Several customers describe multi-year arrangements — one has used them for three straight years of spring cleanup, mulch, mowing and hedge trimming; another calls them their regular crew every year since buying the house. There isn't much to flag. The record outside routine lawn and yard care is thinner: a couple of reviews mention a fence installed alongside a cleanup job, and a few describe stump removal bundled into a bigger yard project — real work, but not the core of what the reviews describe. One 2025 review opens with a different, unrelated contractor botching a retaining-wall rebuild before the homeowner called Xcel to take over — worth noting only because that failure belongs to the other company, not this one. Nothing in the record raises a complaint about Xcel's own work. For anyone in the Methuen area looking for a landscaper to call every season instead of re-shopping each time, this is the profile: personal, repeat-customer lawn and yard care with Diego doing the estimates and often the work himself. Worth confirming up front how far past routine landscaping — fencing, drainage, larger hardscape — the crew is willing to go, since that side of the work shows up far less often than the mowing and cleanup jobs.