Vilchez Landscaping, Inc.

One beat repeats across 28 written accounts of this Medford landscaper: someone asks for a quote, owner Jose Vilchez turns up fast, and the crew is in the yard within days. Angi puts the company at 4.9 across 42 ratings — 93% of them five stars — and its profile there self-reports 11 years in business and Spanish-speaking service. What people hire them for is heavy yard work rather than weekly mowing. Shrub and hedge removal, spring and fall cleanups, mulching and edging garden beds come up again and again. A 2021 reviewer described 15 overgrown forsythias pulled out roots and all, then a 4-by-110-foot bed cut and loamed. In a 2023 review, a homeowner counted more than 1,000 square feet of shrub cleaning and trimming finished in a single visit. Masonry turns up often enough to be part of the picture. A 2021 account credits a crumbling 40-foot retaining wall along a driveway rebuilt, plus a second curving wall in the back yard holding a steep hill. Another from 2021 describes a ten-year-old patio fully restored and a six-foot walkway installed. Angi also lists block and stone wall repair, stone flatwork, lawn maintenance and snow removal, residential and commercial. The responsiveness stories are unusually consistent. A 2022 reviewer selling a rental property from an hour and a half away said the quote came inside an hour, the work happened the next day despite rain in the forecast, and before-and-after photos arrived by text; a 2025 customer managing a job from abroad described the same photo updates. Cleanup gets its own mention in review after review — the yard left raked, the debris gone. Two things to weigh. Price surfaced once as a reservation: a 2023 reviewer rated the job four stars and called it "Pricey" while still describing quick service and neat work, so pin down the number in writing before the crew starts. And the written history has gone quiet — the newest account on file dates to October 2025, and eight of the 28 reviews are more than five years old, which makes the current-year picture thinner than a 4.9 average suggests. For a property that has gotten away from you — beds swallowed by shrubs, a wall starting to lean, a yard that has to look presentable before a sale — this is a small owner-run crew that quotes quickly and cleans up after itself. Confirm the scope and price in writing, and ask whether the wall and patio work is quoted separately from the planting and cleanup.