Crescio Landscaping

About Crescio Landscaping

Before six on a January morning, while Burlington is still blue-dark under its oaks and white pines, a plow blade finds the head of a driveway and pushes the night's snow back against an old farm wall. Crescio Landscaping works this pocket of Middlesex County — the low glacial rises, the brook-cut hollows, the yards carved out of orchard ground along the turnpike — keeping lawns in the green months and clearing snow when the cold takes the town over. There is a particular pleasure in the long evening cut: straight lines laid down across a July lawn, the trimmed edge running clean beside the walk, a whole yard suddenly reading as cared-for from the street. Winter's satisfaction is plainer and colder — pavement dark and bare before the coffee is poured, a path opened to the door, a drive a family can back out of while the treeline is still black against the sky. It is work you can see from the sidewalk, and it holds.