Home Services reviews in Belmont, Massachusetts

GLA designed our entire property and handled all of the plantings and hard scape installation, most recently a patio and back deck. Everything came out looking awesome! Great eye for plant groupings and they prioritize native species.

We've used GLA over the years for big jobs (hard scaping our front yard) and smaller jobs (teaching me how to prune hydrangeas properly). Rob, Ian and the team are knowledgeable about New England landscaping and gardening, and very responsive to our needs. Highly recommend!

It's not often you can say it was a pleasure having a work crew at your house, but my boys, my dog and I all enjoyed having Gilmore Landscape Architecture on site. They are intelligent, kind, respectful, creative and talented individuals. The exterior of my home was completely transformed; Rob's expertise in terrain and site planning was fundamental to creating a stunning final result. He made sense of a plot that was uneven and mostly covered in cracked pavement. It now instead features a kitchen garden, native trees and plantings, a reflecting pond, meditation rock garden, as well as a driveable grass paver driveway and beautiful gabion rock walls with wood bench toppers. --Allison TC

Rob and Ian and his team did a great job for us. We did a large project that required several months of planning and then a full year to execute, with significant hardscaping work and all new plantings and trees. They were clear and organized in planning and communicated well throughout the process. The work took place during the COVID crisis in 2020 which added a lot of complexity, which they handled well. We love the outcome, especially how the plants and flowers bloom at different times and change the look throughout the year. We live next to a park that gets a lot of foot traffic, and just about every week we have a new passerby stop and compliment us on how the project looks and the quality of the work.

We worked with Rob on a complete yard renovation that included full regrading across multiple levels, new retaining walls (both mortared and placed), a stone landing, walkway, and stairs, a paver patio, deck, fencing, sod/irrigation system, and full planting. During the design process, we provided a rough vision and goals for the project and Rob and team game back with multiple options that we iterated around until we generated the master plan. Rob really listened to us and brought his experience to make recommendations consistent with our goals, design aesthetic, and budget. Once we began the project, Rob and his team efficiently orchestrated its execution, which included both his own team's hard/softscape work along with that of subcontractors (e.g., mason, carpenter, excavator). There were many moving pieces and some onsite changes had to be made once the project started and "issues" arose. Rob communicated these challenges and his suggested modifications always made sense and worked out. There were some delays getting the different subcontractors scheduled that overall lengthened the timelines, but Rob kept us posted and let us know what to expect. I really appreciated the design and build aspect to Rob and his team. I was impressed with how Rob and team excelled at both the design, but also rolled up their sleeves to "dig in the dirt" as well. I think that design/build continuity really made the project successful. The final product is absolutely incredible and achieved everything we set out to do - to both create more functional spaces and to make it look great. We couldn't be happier and would absolutely recommend Gilmore Landscape Architecture.

Rob and his team did an amazing job! We love their work, and they collaborated with us closely to make sure that the design matched our needs and preferences. Rob was communicative about the cost of each effort, and offered us diverse options. He and his team went above and beyond in order to finish on our desired schedule. We enjoyed having them around, and we LOVE the outdoor space that they created.

We couldn’t be happier with the work GLA did to transform our backyard!
We had a vision to create a unique, cozy, natural oasis, where we could go to escape from our busy neighborhood.
From the very beginning, Rob and team were incredibly collaborative, taking the time to understand our taste and style, while offering new creative ideas that perfectly complemented our vision. They were very flexible and willing to easily incorporate our feedback and changes. The end result is a stunning backyard that’s not only our new haven, but also a warm and inviting space, perfect for entertaining. Our friends and family have been raving about it!
We highly recommend GLA to anyone looking for beautiful, personalized landscaping design. We will enthusiastically continue to use them for future projects.

-Ron & Lisa

Rob, Ian and the whole team were absolutely fantastic to work with. They spent a lot of time with me in the planning phase of the project to learn how I wanted to use the space and came up with a beautiful design that met all of those needs and more. I really appreciated how there was room for me to be hands-on when I wanted and more hands-off on decisions I didn't feel strongly about and they could run with based on the overall vision for the project.

From a budgeting perspective, they were very detailed and on top of expenses throughout the project. Rob was great about pricing things out at multiple price points and being flexible when we had to bring costs down in certain areas. I never felt pressured to make a decision that was outside of my budget, and in the end I felt great about the investment I made in the space.

I still get regular compliments on the yard from my neighbors and can't recommend Rob and the team enough!

Heather

We presented Rob and his team with lots of challenges - design requirements that were somehow both specific and vague, quirky and rocky terrain, access limitations, and intractable town zoning restrictions. Rob and his team overcame all of the above to give us exactly what we were hoping for – even if we couldn’t always articulate what it was we wanted. Rob was creative, persistent, patient, flexible, and kind. Equally important, he is a good listener and a good communicator. As an enthusiastic gardener, I found Rob and his team to be knowledgeable about plants, sensitive to our existing landscape considerations, and to possess unerringly good design instincts, appropriate to our site. It's important to note also that the team is obviously selected with great care. We felt that they were enthusiastic about the work they were doing, meticulous in their operations, and respectful of our property and our requests. It was always a pleasure to have them onsite, and we would love to have a chance to work with them again in the future.

Rob Gilmore and his team did a fantastic job. We selected Rob for our yard in Somerville because of his experience transforming smaller spaces into beautiful and functional areas. They came up with innovative ideas for different areas of our yard that we would have never thought of including solutions to our steep driveway that used to freeze into an ice sheet in the winter. They listened to our needs and asked about how we used our yard before making suggestions. They recommended we create an extra set of steps off our front porch to improve accessibility to our side yard. They created unique planters around a new patio to allow us to garden. They added an herb garden in a particular spot for perfect herb growing once they learned we liked to cook. Rob's partner Ian has a tremendous knowledge of plants and made great suggestions about what to plant and always gave us choices. They were incredibly easy to work with and were able to accommodate us and change plans when we realized what we had asked for wasn't exactly what we wanted. We hired Gilmore Landscape for both the design and build phases. That made it much easier to adjust things along the way. We highly recommend them.

I had a big job to get my deck, patio, driveway, backyard, front yard and fence completely redone and needed a design-build firm that had the aesthetic I was looking for. I saw a job Rob had done in a nearby neighborhood that I absolutely loved and contacted him immediately.

Rob and his team designed an amazing plan and listened to what we wanted: a space that fit our modern aesthetic with landscaping that was native-pollinator and animal friendly while being fairly low maintenance.

I also had an idea for fence that required some additional problem-solving on the design & build and Rob and his team went above and beyond to deliver. They are a great team to work with and we're so honored to have a yard done by Gilmore Landscape Architects!

Gilmore Landscape truly had a vision to make the most of our awkward urban side and rear yards. Hemmed in by a towering school building on two sides and an MBTA station beyond that, GLA planted a grove of birch trees to screen the building and buffer the sound of the T station. In summer we are able to sit tranquilly in our back yard rock garden admiring the baptisia, lavender, wild geraniums, ferns, oak leaf hydrangeas and birch trees surrounding us and have a feeling of being in a faraway beautiful spot. Our side yard is like a room complete with a blue stone patio for entertaining that is out of view of the large building beyond our fence. We loved their attention to native plants, organic mulch and introducing a mix of clover and grass for a more natural and sustainable softscape in the side and rear yards. We liked the artistry employed selecting and placing stone and selecting plants that really go well with the color of our house. It is fun to see the ever evolving color of all the plants throughout the growing season. It is even beautiful in the autumn as everything turns to golden yellows, rich browns and spots of deep purple and burgundy.

Very Unprofessional and loves wasting people's time because he thinks he is better than you. I am so disappointed with this company.

Marvin and his team were meticulous and transformed our yard!

Marvin has been working on our yard for 2 years. He is excellent!

Marvin and his team did a phenomenal job for my yard and the spring cleaning. I would 100% recommend them for any other yard and lawn care

Great snow removal service with some of the better rates in the area.

Very satisfied with the work Mendoza landscaping did! They have my business for life!

Did spring cleanup for us. Great, careful and thorough work done!

Great job on lawn cleaning, edging and mulching! I recommend this company for you if you are looking someone to do a yard work.

I am impressed with how thorough Marvin and his team work to get the landscaping done. I highly recommend him and his team!!