Landscape & Hardscape · Somerville, MA
Landscape & Hardscape in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Building landscape & hardscape in Somerville starts underground, on clay-rich glacial till capping the drumlins over Cambridge argillite bedrock. A dense city of drumlin hills where the finest Victorian-era homes call for stonework that fits tight urban lots without giving up estate-grade craft. We hand-set every stone to suit the restored Second Empire and Italianate mansions on Spring Hill and Prospect Hill above the city's signature Victorian two- and three-family houses of greater Boston, and we build it to still be plumb in thirty years.
Problems We Solve
Common landscape & hardscape problems in Somerville — solved.
A property that fights water and never looks settled.
We start under the surface — grading and drainage first — so the whole site sheds water and stays dry.
Several trades fighting over the same yard.
One crew builds hardscape and softscape in the right sequence, on one schedule, with one point of accountability.
A designer’s plan you need built exactly right.
We execute plans to spec, flag conflicts before they become change orders, and build precisely what was drawn.
Planning landscape & hardscape in Somerville? Call (508) 922-1836 or request your free quote — most consultations are booked within a business day.
For Somerville designers and architects
Designers keep sending us Greater Boston work for one reason: what gets built matches what was drawn. We hold the spec, raise conflicts early, and document as we go — including on the Jonathan Keep Landscape Design projects throughout this portfolio.
Schedule and site care in Somerville
The part nobody photographs: where the pallets sit, where the excavator tracks, and what the property looks like on a Friday afternoon. In Somerville we plan all of that up front and hold the schedule we gave you at the start.
The whole Somerville property, built as one
Sometimes the project is not a wall or a patio — it is the whole site. On a compact grid draped over seven drumlin hills that slope to the Mystic River lowland, we take a property from rough grade to finished landscape: drainage and earthwork first, because a landscape that fights water never looks settled, then stonework, plantings, and the details that make a yard feel resolved.
Working over clay-rich glacial till capping the drumlins over Cambridge argillite bedrock, which drains slowly and demands engineered footings, we start under the surface so the finished Somerville property sheds water, stays dry where it should, and never undermines the stonework above it.
Beyond Somerville
Somerville sits in Middlesex County, and most weeks we are somewhere in this pocket of Greater Boston — which means shorter travel, faster site visits, and a crew that already knows how ground behaves around here.
The crew Somerville designers trust
Prospect Hill and Spring Hill fall under local historic-district review, and tight setbacks on drumlin clay make retaining walls and drainage the whole of the job.
On full-site projects we are frequently the execution crew for landscape architects and designers — much of our Greater Boston work in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design. We read plans fluently, flag conflicts before they become change orders, and build exactly what was drawn.
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Questions
Landscape & Hardscape in Somerville, answered.
Most residential work runs one to three weeks on site, depending on size, access, and how much excavation clay-rich glacial till capping the drumlins over Cambridge argillite bedrock demands. You get a real schedule before we start, and we hold it — including the clean-up at the end of each day.
Prospect Hill and Spring Hill fall under local historic-district review, and tight setbacks on drumlin clay make retaining walls and drainage the whole of the job. We handle the local checks that go with that as part of the project rather than leaving them to you.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds landscape & hardscape throughout Somerville — from Spring Hill, Prospect Hill, and Ten Hills — and across Greater Boston, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across Massachusetts, and we build from architectural plans with millimeter precision.
Both. We can take a property from grading through final planting, or come in for the masonry scope alongside other trades. We will scope it whichever way serves the project.
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Planning landscape & hardscape in Somerville?
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