Holliston Yard Care That Respects the Small-Town Look

Holliston keeps a classic New England feel. The town center has white-steepled churches, the Carnegie library and Fiske's General Store. East Holliston, along Washington Street, is a historic district of early homes. Neighborhoods ring Lake Winthrop, and older areas such as Braggville, Metcalf and Brentwood mix antique houses with newer subdivisions on bigger lots. The Upper Charles Rail Trail runs right through town.

Many Holliston homes sit on wooded or partly wooded lots, so the yard work is less about a huge lawn and more about keeping beds, edges and shrubs in shape and getting the leaves out every fall. Landscaping in Holliston, MA, done well means the property looks cared for without looking overdone.

Spring: cleanup of winter debris and fallen branches, cutting back perennials, edging, then fresh mulch on the beds. Summer: weekly or every-other-week mowing where there is lawn, plus hedge trimming and shrub pruning to keep plantings off windows and walkways. Fall: full leaf cleanup, which is the biggest job on most wooded Holliston lots. Winter: snow plowing.

We can do all of it or just the pieces you need. A lot of Holliston clients start with a spring cleanup and mulch, see how the property looks, and then add mowing and fall cleanup.

Around the historic center and East Holliston, many homes have foundation plantings and hedges that were set long ago and have grown past the windows. Careful pruning brings them back to a healthy shape. We prune at the right time of year for each plant so spring bloomers like lilac and forsythia are not cut before they flower.

When a shrub is past saving, we can replace it with something sized for the spot and suited to New England winters, and refresh the bed with loam and mulch so the new plants get a good start.

We are a family-owned company based in neighboring Framingham. Vantuir has 20 years of hands-on landscaping experience. We are licensed and insured, estimates are free with no visit fee, and we reply within 24 hours. If something is not right after we finish, we come back and fix it at no cost. We speak English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Our job sites stay clean and organized: clippings blown off the walk, debris hauled away, gates closed behind us. On streets near the town center and the rail trail, where neighbors walk past every day, that kind of care is part of the job.