Landscaping & Planter Services for Greater Boston Properties
Seasonal cleanups, grounds maintenance, and custom planter arrangements for multifamily buildings, condominiums, offices, religious institutions, and commercial properties across Greater Boston.
Your building's exterior is the first thing everyone sees
Before a prospective tenant steps inside, before a congregant enters for services, before a client walks through the office door — they see the exterior. Overgrown shrubs, uncleared debris, bare or neglected entryway planters, and unkempt grounds signal to everyone who approaches that a building isn't being actively managed. A well-maintained exterior signals exactly the opposite.
For most Greater Boston property managers, landscaping is an afterthought — something that gets addressed reactively when it becomes too noticeable to ignore, or handed off to a vendor whose primary focus is large residential estates and office parks rather than the compact urban and suburban building stock that makes up the majority of Greater Boston's properties. The result is landscaping that's done for larger properties and scaled down, rather than designed for the specific character and scale of a multifamily building, condominium community, or urban commercial property.
78-Clean's landscaping program is built around the properties we actually service — buildings with defined entryways, compact grounds, urban plantings, and residents or visitors who see the exterior every day. We understand what these properties need and what they don't, and we bring the same single-vendor simplicity to landscaping that we bring to everything else.
One less vendor to manage
For property managers already coordinating cleaning, trash, snow removal, and maintenance across multiple vendors, adding a separate landscaping company means another contact to maintain, another billing relationship to manage, another vendor whose schedule may or may not align with the rest of your building's service calendar.
78-Clean handles landscaping as part of the same facility services program that covers your building's interior and exterior needs. Your Relationship Manager coordinates landscaping scheduling alongside your other services — spring cleanups timed around the end of winter, fall cleanups before the first snowfall, and planter installations coordinated with the seasonal calendar. One call, one invoice, one point of accountability.
What the service includes
Spring cleanups
As winter retreats, Greater Boston properties need a comprehensive reset — removing debris and leaf accumulation from winter, clearing beds, pruning shrubs and ornamental plantings, re-edging lawn and bed borders, applying mulch, and preparing grounds for the growing season. A thorough spring cleanup sets the standard for the property's exterior presentation through the warmer months and prevents the buildup that accelerates deterioration over time.
Power washing
Spring cleanups often reveal exterior surfaces — entryways, walkways, building facades, and courtyard areas — that have accumulated a winter's worth of salt residue, organic staining, and surface buildup. Power washing restores these surfaces as part of a complete spring exterior program. See our Power Washing page for full detail.
Fall cleanups
Leaves and organic debris left on grounds through winter suppress grass, retain moisture that promotes disease and pest activity, and create the kind of neglected appearance that residents and owners notice immediately. 78-Clean's fall cleanups remove leaf accumulation, clear beds, trim back plantings before dormancy, and prepare grounds for winter — leaving the property clean and protected heading into the snow season.
Mowing
For properties with lawn areas — multifamily buildings, condominiums, and religious institutions with exterior grounds — 78-Clean provides mowing service calibrated to the scale of urban and suburban building stock. We serve properties with defined outdoor spaces, not large-scale estates or commercial parks.
Trimming and pruning
Overgrown shrubs, unruly hedges, and unpruned ornamental plantings detract from a building's presentation regardless of how well the interior is maintained. 78-Clean trims and prunes plantings on a seasonal schedule — maintaining clean lines, healthy growth, and the kind of grounds presentation that reflects well on the property.
Mulching
Fresh mulch applied in spring and fall suppresses weeds, retains moisture, insulates root systems through temperature extremes, and gives planting beds a consistently maintained appearance. 78-Clean applies mulch as part of seasonal cleanup programs or as a standalone service.
Equipment compliance
Greater Boston municipalities including Brookline and Newton have specific restrictions on gas-powered landscaping equipment — seasonal bans on leaf blowers, decibel limits, and annual permit requirements for commercial landscapers. 78-Clean's crews operate compliant equipment and hold the required permits in the municipalities where restrictions apply. Your property won't receive a fine because your landscaper wasn't aware of local rules.
Seasonal planter arrangements
Entryway and walkway planters are among the most visible elements of a building's exterior — and among the most commonly neglected. Empty or overgrown planters at a building entry signal abandonment. Well-designed, seasonally appropriate arrangements signal care and attention and create the kind of welcoming exterior that residents and visitors notice and appreciate.
78-Clean designs, sources, and installs seasonal planter arrangements for building entries, walkways, courtyards, and exterior common areas. Each arrangement is created for the specific location, scale, and character of your property — not a generic configuration applied uniformly across every client.
How the program works
During your initial property walkthrough, we assess your planter locations, discuss aesthetic preferences, and recommend arrangements appropriate for your building's character and scale. Clients select which seasons they want covered — spring and summer, fall, winter holiday, or a full annual program. Arrangements are installed at the start of each season and replaced at the seasonal transition. The program continues on an annual basis and can be adjusted or cancelled at any time.
Seasonal arrangements
Spring and summer arrangements bring color and life to building entries as the growing season begins — flowering annuals, lush greenery, and arrangements that hold through the warmer months. Fall arrangements shift to seasonal plantings — mums, ornamental kale, gourds, and the warm tones that signal the change of season. Winter and holiday arrangements bring evergreen arrangements, seasonal color, and a welcoming presence through the coldest and darkest months of the Greater Boston year.
Why it matters for multifamily and condo buildings
For apartment buildings, well-maintained exterior planters are part of the curb appeal that attracts prospective tenants and signals to current residents that the building is actively managed. For condominium associations, planters are part of the shared exterior that owners expect to be maintained to a standard consistent with their investment. 78-Clean's planter program gives property managers a low-effort, high-visibility way to maintain that standard year-round.
A note on exterior maintenance
Landscaping work sometimes surfaces exterior maintenance needs — a deteriorating planter box, damaged exterior trim, worn railings alongside building entries, or exterior fixtures that need attention. When 78-Clean's landscaping crews identify these items, they're reported back through your Relationship Manager. For exterior repairs and maintenance, our 78-Fixit team handles carpentry, painting, fixture replacement, and general building repairs — the same company that maintains your grounds can address what the grounds reveal. See our Maintenance & Repairs — 78-Fixit page for full detail.
Standalone service or part of a broader program
Landscaping and planter services are available as standalone offerings or as part of a broader 78-Clean facility services program. Properties that combine landscaping with cleaning, trash service, and snow removal benefit from a single Relationship Manager coordinating all exterior and interior service delivery — one schedule, one invoice, one point of accountability year-round.
Serving properties across Greater Boston
78-Clean provides landscaping and planter services to multifamily buildings, condominium associations, offices, religious institutions, schools, and commercial properties throughout Greater Boston — including Boston, Allston, Brighton, Brookline, Cambridge, Newton, Chestnut Hill, and surrounding communities.
A landscaping partner Greater Boston properties trust
78-Clean is the commercial cleaning brand of Commercial Cleaning Service, Inc., a family-owned, women-owned Greater Boston business since 1977. We maintain a 97% customer retention rate — built on delivering consistent, well-coordinated service that makes a visible difference to the properties we serve.
Every client is assigned a dedicated Relationship Manager who coordinates your landscaping program alongside your other 78-Clean services — so your building's exterior receives the same level of attention and oversight as its interior.