JM Mento Landscape Design

Twenty-seven Google ratings average out to 4.7, and the pattern across JM Mento Landscape Design's reviews from 2022 through 2025 keeps landing on the same kind of job: a patio poured, a retaining wall rebuilt, a yard regraded because water was pooling where it shouldn't. The company works out of Holbrook and is run by landscape designer Joe Mento, who says he's covered the South Shore, Greater Boston, and Cape Cod for more than 20 years, keeping installation crews in-house rather than handing the work to subcontractors. That multi-year record is mostly positive - a landscaping directory site separately echoes what reviewers say on Google, describing homeowners pleased with the professionalism, attention to detail, and quality of the finished work. But the weighted read across those 25 reviews comes in a step below what the star average alone suggests, and that gap traces back to a specific complaint about follow-through and responsiveness buried in an otherwise strong mix - the kind of account that should weigh more heavily than a handful of five-star write-ups when a deposit is on the line. The company's own site lists a wide menu - patios, walkways, paver driveways, retaining walls, outdoor kitchens, fire pits, pergolas, landscape lighting, fencing, irrigation, synthetic turf, and grading/drainage - and claims an Angi 2022 Super Service Award, though that's a self-reported credential rather than anything independently checked here. There's no state contractor license tied to this kind of work either way: Massachusetts doesn't license landscaping-only outfits, so a missing badge here isn't a red flag, just how the trade is regulated. For a straightforward hardscape or drainage job, the multi-year Google record and the crew's own account of keeping installation in-house are reasonable grounds for a call. For anything that spans a season - a patio that has to wait on spring sod, say - get the finish date and remaining-payment terms spelled out in writing before the crew wraps for the year.