Lees Landscaping

Sixty-four years in the same town is the headline. Lees Landscaping Irrigation & Construction has worked out of 6 Connolly Ave in Swampscott since 1962 by its BBB profile, which lists a sole proprietorship of six people under owner Daniell J. Dunbar. Irrigation is the spine of it — design, installation and repair — with landscape lighting, hardscaping, patios, retaining walls and landscape design built around that. Two seasonal lines sit alongside: commercial snow removal, and beach raking, which is a North Shore job most landscapers don't take on. The company says it covers Swampscott and Newburyport and publishes a phone number for each. Its BBB standing is the one outside marker on the business — accredited since January 2008, graded A+, with nothing logged against it. Its BBB page carries no customer reviews, and no customer writing turned up elsewhere either, so there is no way to say here how the work actually lands and no rating is published. That makes this a call-and-ask job rather than a read-the-reviews one. If irrigation or a patio is what you need, ask for recent local addresses you can drive past, and pin the scope and price down in writing before the season fills.