Karen has worked for us over the past 3 years from designing and executing a full scale makeover of…read morebackyard (which was a mud pit when we moved in) to 3x/year cleanup and maintenance. Her designs are beautiful and the prep-work has allowed our garden to flourish even in the absence of green thumbs. She has worked within our budget. Communication can be slow at times but given the results we have recommended KC to several friends and will continue to work work with her.

We use KC as a mentor, as we learn how to care for a garden we inherited when our downstairs…read moreneighbor moved. KC has been super helpful in teaching us how to care for our flowers and how to properly treat common plant health issues like infections and pests. Just today KC spent over an hour teaching me to how to properly prune rhododendrons and yews in part of our garden. My partner and I really like working with her as a mentor and always learn how to do more of the garden maintenance ourselves every time KC visits. I highly recommend working with KC (even if you don't want mentoring but just need garden care, but especially if you want to learn more about gardening!)

As someone who knows almost nothing about gardening, I went looking for a gardener after purchasing…read morea house with preexisting gardens. I knew I needed more than a landscaper, I knew the sumac and poison ivy weren't supposed to be there, and I knew I needed an expert to help me out from there. Ruth walked with me through the grounds and gave me her ideas about how to make the space flourish and prosper. She clearly cares about the health of plants and the environment. She was respectful of my perspective and desires despite my lack of knowledge, and also respectful of the amount of time, money, energy that I could put toward the garden in the near future. She laid out a plan for both the immediate future and some long-term ideas about the best options for my property, including moving some plants to places that are better suited to them. Within a week of our first meeting, her assistant Kree was at our place to take out the sumac and other weeds. Kree was similarly friendly and knowledgeable, even ringing my doorbell at one point to educate me about a particularly unruly invasive on my property (black swallow-wort). If I knew someone else in a similar situation, I would absolutely recommend Ruth.

Ruth is great! extremely knowledgeable about all plants, weeds, etc. She has transformed my garden…read morewhich was in extremely poor shape with something that I am now feeling tranquil in. And she is just getting started with planting. She is a delight to work with as well. Suzanne--Winthrop

Remarkable design and implementation. Offshoots delivers great design, estimating and working…read morewithin budget and schedule framework. Friendly and professional owners and staff. Giambastiani Design, for Friends of the John Harvard Mall, Charlestown, Ma.

The garden has been a work in progress since we moved into our 1950 remodeled ranch-style house in…read moreNewton, MA. Offshoots has been instrumental in designing, suggesting, and implementing everything from a new patio in the back to enhanced curb appeal for the front of the house and everything in between, including building an enclosed raised bed vegetable garden. Everyone from the principal to the newest hire has been friendly, knowledgeable, and full of great ideas. Outstanding service.

Our yard had become mostly dirt with a few struggling patches of grass, and Neighborhood…read moreLandscaping put an incredible amount of work into giving it a fresh start. We live several flights of stairs above the street, on ledge, with rocky soil. Everything had to be done by hand, including carrying countless barrels of old soil down the stairs and bringing fresh loam back up. Mario and his crew were amazingly friendly and treated all of it as just part of the job. Not one complaint, even when the conditions added several days to the work. I feel bad living so high up off the street and deal with a lot of guilt and grief about it with workers that come to the house. It is a lot easier on us when that is taken out of the equation. At one point, they were working so hard to remove a giant boulder that I came out and told them it wasn't worth the trouble. I honestly think they would have kept at it until they got it out. That says a lot about their commitment. Jeff coordinated perfectly with Fred at Designer Sprinkler Service, who installed our new irrigation system, so everything happened in the right order. The yard is now prepped and seeded, and it already looks so much better. We're excited to see the grass come in and very grateful to the whole crew. Highly recommend.

Jeff's team is totally first rate. I've hired them for Spring and Fall clean outs, removed of trees…read moreand bushes. They are very efficient, and do excellent work. Fabulous value for the work that they do on your property. If you are in the Melrose/Wakefield/Winchester area, reach out to Jeff and his team.

Christie Dustman and Company helped with the design of a friends garden and did an incredible job…read more I was so impressed that I hired her to consult with me for my established garden that has been written up in 8 magazines. I gave her my thoughts and right away she came back with some suggestions that made total sense to me. I got right to work implementing her suggestions and I'm completely happy with the new design features. Christie is super easy to work with, listened to what I wanted to achieve, and delivered wonderful suggestions. I'm very lucky to have had her help and now my gardening friends all use her.

I would highly recommend Christie Dustman & Company. The initial one-hour consultation was fabulous…read more- we brainstormed various ideas and then I was provided with a sketch showing proposed planting areas with specific plants/tree types. The idea of building a 2-section funky fence near my patio served two purposes, one to screen my patio area from my neighbor's backyard, and the other to save me money from having a higher, longer fence along the property line separating me from my neighbor. I also loved the concept of adding some bluestone stepping stones into the existing patio (made of pavers) and extending the stepping stones into the yard to lead someone from the patio into the backyard. The trees, shrubs, and plants continue to thrive years later. The variety of textures and shapes is lovely.

Love the Terrascapes! I had the Terrascapes team help me with my tired looking property that…read morelikely looked great 30 years ago when the prior owners moved in, but was really never maintained until I bought the house last year. The shrubs were huge and no longer fit. Ugly. Terrascapes took the existing "design" and suggested some great-but-affordable changes. I had them make the changes, and now I have their crew do garden maintenance. I gotta say that I'm thankful my property was ugly when I bought it, because now it looks like a million bucks nicer.

The one poor review here is clearly from someone who got frustrated because a phone call was not…read morereturned. I can't say enough good things about Terrascapes after having worked with them for over five years. Susan designed a total transformation our large and challenging yard/garden in 2015, with an emphasis on creating 'spaces', not just putting in plants. Her gardening team have worked closely with us on maintenance ever since. The garden is magnificent and brings my whole family joy every day. Susan and Mike only hire knowledgeable and trustworthy people, and we feel they are our 'team', keeping our garden thriving and beautiful. This is a top notch operation, run by committed people who believe in what they do, and in positive client relationships.

Ben came to do a consultation and we agreed upon a budget and rough timeline for when they could do…read morethe work. I appreciated Ben's vision, which included a lot of fruit plants and bee friendly plants. There were some aspects of the execution that could have been improved. A breakdown of the budget would have been helpful. I got a sense that it was tight for them but it's objectively a lot of money, and it would help to see where the money was going. Some more instruction/education on how to care for the new plants would have been helpful to support the success of the garden. In the original consultation I thought that would be part of the installation. They offer training as a separate service, and during the installation was told it wouldn't be included as part of the installation. It's completely fair to charge money for services such as education and training, but I thought that some of it would be part of the installation so as to ensure the success of the new landscape. There were some small touches that they didn't do that we did ourselves after the installation to give it a more complete feel, which would have been nice to have been included. For example they didn't line the planting area and a few inches of mulch extended into the sidewalk. We ended up getting plastic garden liner and rocks to make a boundary, both for it to look nice and stay contained within my property and also to prevent runoff. We staked the raspberries because the new fruit were growing white fuzz where they were touching the ground. While there were some misunderstandings about some aspects of the installation, I do like the edible plants and the layout looks nice. I hope as they continue to grow they don't lose sight of the customer service and communication that are raved about in some previous reviews.

Ben came for a consult and we made plans, discussing my priorities and vision. Then, I never saw…read morehim again. His employees had no idea the plan we made. They were delays in sourcing evergreens. They put in the ugliest Yews, which were total ineffective as a hedge or for privacy, which was my priority. The made stone walkway below grade. It's is under water and covered in mud every time it rains. He put in Asain pear trees when local pears would have been better. Paw-paw trees which serve no purpose, and they look bad. Most of the planting they did is dead and gone. It was a waste of time and money (+$30k). He seemed nice, but did an awful job, had no professional courtesy, never followed up, never thanked the person that referred me. Don't waste your time.

We used G&H Landscaping this past fall to completely re-do our lawn and landscaping. We had…read morerenovated our house which meant that the yard had been trashed by construction vehicles and what we had to start with was about 2% actual grass and 98% crabgrass and weeds. Furthermore the shrubbery was old and overgrown. We needed help. We called G&H (Mike Giorgio) and he responded to us right away and stopped by the house at a convenient time for us after work to give us an estimate. He was pleasant and professional and listened to what we wanted and what our budget was. We saw eye-to-eye immediately. Our experience couldn't have been better. He was there when he said he would be there and done when he said he would be done. He worked with the other contractors we hired (irrigation folks and fence guys) and made sure that everything was done the right way and in the right order. When it came to picking out new plants he had great suggestions and recommended some local nurseries in the area. This spring we hired him for the maintenance of our new lawn and everything is going great. The lawn looks awesome and we are the envy of the neighborhood. I highly recommend G&H.

Just used them, they did a great job on my beds, new mulch, edging. Much better than othersread more