Landscaping & Exterior Services in Framingham, MA
Casablanca Services runs out of 82 Herbert Street, Framingham. This is our home base — the yard where the trucks park, the crews load and the phone gets answered — and it has been for more than twenty years.
That proximity is not a marketing line. It changes what we can actually do here. A Framingham job does not start with a forty-minute drive down the Pike; it starts eight minutes away. When a crew hits something unexpected — a buried stump, a base that turns out to be sand, a section of fence nobody knew was on the wrong side of the line — someone can be back at the yard for the right equipment and returning before lunch. In the towns further out, that same problem costs a day.
Framingham stopped being a town in 2018 and started being a city, and the work here reflects the range that implies. We mow lots in Nobscot and Saxonville. We hold grounds contracts on commercial properties off Route 9. We plow the same lots at four in the morning that we mowed in July. We have been doing it since 2005 — long enough to have rebuilt walkways we laid the first time around.
Our Yard Is Eight Minutes From Your House
Every other city we serve, we drive to. Framingham we work out of. The equipment yard, the trucks, the mattress collection operation and the office are all at 82 Herbert Street, and that is the single biggest practical difference between hiring us here and hiring us anywhere else in MetroWest.
It shows up in small ways that matter more than they sound. Same-day callbacks are actually same-day. A missed spot on a mow gets fixed the afternoon you call rather than folded into next week's route. Storm work starts here, which means Framingham is not the last stop on a plow route that began somewhere else — it is the first.
- Main office and equipment yard: 82 Herbert Street, Framingham MA 01702
- Phone: (508) 271-5655 — answered by people who work out of that yard
- Serving Framingham continuously since 2005
- Licensed, insured, BBB Accredited and a Massachusetts state-certified recycler
Route 9, the Golden Triangle and the Commercial Side
Framingham has a commercial spine that most communities its size do not. The Route 9 corridor and the Golden Triangle pull retail, office and medical traffic in from across MetroWest, and the properties along it have grounds requirements that have nothing to do with residential landscaping. Nobody notices a well-kept commercial island. Everybody notices a dead one.
The demands are different in kind. A retail property on Route 9 needs its beds turned over on a schedule that never inconveniences a customer, which in practice means early mornings and clean staging. It needs irrigation that does not run across a walkway in front of shoppers. It needs snow cleared and salted before the first employee arrives, not before the doors open. And it needs the same crew every visit, because a property manager should not have to re-explain the site every week.
The residential side of Framingham is a different animal entirely. Saxonville and Nobscot have mature lots with real trees and real slope. Framingham Centre has older properties where the walks were laid long before anyone thought about frost. Around Framingham State the housing turns over and the yards show it. We work all of it out of the same yard, which is why we can put the right size truck on the right street instead of sending one machine everywhere and hoping.
Yard Waste in Framingham — Curbside or Crew?
Massachusetts bans yard waste from landfill disposal, so every bag of leaves has a route it has to take. The Framingham DPW runs a seasonal curbside collection for residents and the dates are set each year, so check the current calendar before you pile anything at the curb. Here is roughly where the line falls between what the city takes and what needs a crew.
| Material | Framingham DPW curbside | What we haul out |
|---|---|---|
| Leaves | Collected seasonally, with dates set annually by the DPW | Full-property cleanups, hauled off-site the same day rather than bagged and left standing |
| Grass clippings | Generally unnecessary — we mulch-mow them back into the lawn | Bagged and removed on request, though we will usually talk you out of it |
| Brush and prunings | Accepted within the DPW's size and bundling limits | Anything past those limits — storm damage, large removals, an overgrown hedge line |
| Stumps and logs | Not part of the curbside program | Ground out or hauled, depending on what you want the space to become |
| Mattresses | Not yard waste, not curbside — banned from disposal statewide since November 2022 | Scheduled pickup at $79.95 standard, dismantled and recycled to state standards |
What Happens When You Call Us Here
Four steps, and the first one usually happens the same week.
- 1 We come and look at it Not a phone quote off a satellite image. Someone from the yard drives over — it is a short drive — and walks the property with you. Most of what sets the price of a Framingham job is invisible from above: the slope behind the house, whether the base under the old walk is gravel or sand, how much of the back yard a truck can actually reach.
- 2 You get a written number Itemized, with the assumptions written down. If we think the patio you asked for is going to heave in three winters because of what is under it, that goes in the estimate too. We would rather lose the job than build it twice.
- 3 We schedule against the season Some work has a right month in this climate and some does not. Hardscaping runs most of the year. Sod does not want July. Fall cleanups get scheduled in passes, because one visit in October leaves half the leaves still on the tree. We will tell you the honest window rather than book you into the wrong one.
- 4 The same crew does the work Out of the Herbert Street yard, with a foreman you have met. If something is wrong, you call a number that answers eight minutes away and it gets fixed rather than escalated.
Where We Work in Framingham
What We Do in Framingham
Framingham — Common Questions
Where exactly are you based in Framingham?
82 Herbert Street, Framingham MA 01702. That is the office and the equipment yard both — the trucks park there overnight. It is the reason our response time here is unlike our response time anywhere else we work, and it is why the first city on a storm route is this one. Call (508) 271-5655 and you are calling that building.
Does the DPW take the leaves you bag, or do you haul them?
We haul them. The DPW runs a seasonal curbside yard waste collection and the dates are set each year, so if your timing lines up you can absolutely use it. But a full cleanup on a mature Saxonville lot produces more material than a curbside program is designed for, and thirty bags sitting at the curb for a week is not the look most people are paying for.
Do you handle commercial properties along Route 9?
Yes — the Golden Triangle corridor and the office and retail properties around it are a large part of what we do here. Grounds maintenance, seasonal bed turnover, irrigation, and snow with 24/7 storm response. We are a SIMA member, which for a commercial client mostly means our ice management follows documented practice, and that documentation is exactly what you want if a slip-and-fall claim ever arrives.
Framingham is a city now — did that change anything about permits?
Framingham moved from a town to a city government in 2018, and for a homeowner the practical answer is: less than you would think. Fences, retaining walls over a certain height and anything touching a wetland buffer still need the right approvals. What we do is check what applies to your specific address before we start rather than after, and we pull the permits ourselves where the work needs them.
Serving Framingham Since 2005
Free on-site estimate anywhere in Framingham. Call (508) 271-5655 or request one online.