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Est. 1931 · Serving Brewster, MA

Cape Cod Landscaping,
Servicing Brewster

Locally owned since 1931, with our own tree farm and nursery right here in town — lawn care, cleanups, irrigation, planting, tree work, stonework, and everything in between.

  • Our own tree farm & nursery, Davenport Farms, in Brewster
  • Locally owned and trusted by neighbors since 1931
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In Brewster Since 1931

Landscaping Built
for Brewster, MA

Brewster faces Cape Cod Bay, and its whole character comes from that side of the Cape — the sea captains' houses lined up along Route 6A, the Old King's Highway historic district that keeps them looking the part, Nickerson State Park and its kettle ponds, and the tidal flats that run out nearly a mile at low water. Inland it's mostly woods and sandy soil, with the Stony Brook valley and its old cranberry bogs threading through the west side of town.

John G. Sears & Son has cared for Cape Cod properties since 1931, and Brewster is home turf in a way it isn't for most landscapers — our tree farm and nursery, Davenport Farms, is right here in town. Our shop is about 12 miles up Route 6A in South Yarmouth, and between the two we've spent decades learning what Brewster yards need: pond-side drainage, historic-district plantings, shade gardens under the pines, and lawns that hold up to bay wind. Weekly mowing, seasonal cleanups, a full redesign, plowing after a storm — name it, and we've got it covered.

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Sears crew planting a large balled-and-burlapped spruce with a compact loader on a Brewster MA propertySears crew planting a mature red Japanese maple in a Brewster MA gardenTwo crew members augering a planting hole beside a stone bench on a wooded Brewster MA lot

Our tree farm and nursery sits right here in Brewster, so the trees and shrubs we set in your yard have already spent time getting used to Cape Cod — not shipped in and planted the same week.

Davenport Farms · Brewster, MA

The Davenport Farms sign above a mixed container planting, pond behind, at the Sears tree farm and nursery in BrewsterThe greenhouse and "The Farm" sign at Davenport Farms, with potted plants and cut greens out front, in BrewsterRows of potted roses, lilies, spruce and shrubs in the nursery yard at Davenport Farms in BrewsterFall window boxes planted with pumpkins, mums and ornamental kale on a greenhouse bench at Davenport Farms

Davenport Farms

Our Tree Farm & Nursery Is in Brewster

Very few Cape Cod landscapers have a tree farm and nursery of their own. We do, and it's in Brewster: Davenport Farms. We bring in trees, shrubs, and perennials from established growers, then hold them at the farm to be health-checked and acclimated to Cape Cod's sandy soil, salt air, and wind before any of it goes in the ground.

Most crews plant straight off a wholesale delivery truck. We don't. That settling-in period is why a Sears planting takes root faster, handles the coast better, and lasts — and because one team selects, grows on, and installs every plant, we can stand behind what we put in your yard.

The farm is a working nursery, not a garden center — visits are by appointment. Call (508) 398-8151 to talk stock or set up a walk-through.

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Cranberry Country

Working Around Brewster's Bogs

Wet harvest at the Elbow Pond bog in Brewster — cranberries floated off the vines and corralled with booms.

Brewster has been bog country for generations, going back to when cranberrying spread across the Lower Cape from its start in neighboring Harwich. Bogs like the one at Elbow Pond still get wet-harvested every fall; along the Stony Brook valley and elsewhere in town, others have been retired and turned into conservation land, with the spring herring run still pushing up the brook.

For a landscape, a bog or a former bog next door changes the rules. The water table sits high, soils run to peat and muck instead of the usual Cape sand, and drainage has to be planned rather than assumed. We work with it — wet-tolerant native plantings, rain gardens, regraded swales, and lawn areas placed where they'll actually drain — so a low, damp corner becomes part of the design instead of a problem.

Crew corralling floating cranberries with booms as a pickup waits on the bog dike at Elbow PondHarvest pump loading wet-picked cranberries into a truck at the edge of the Elbow Pond bog in BrewsterA worker in waders drawing a boom line across the flooded Elbow Pond bog in Brewster

What We Do

What We Do in Brewster

All of Brewster

Parts of Town We Serve

Real work in every corner of town, ordered west to east along Route 6A.

  1. West

    West Brewster

    The Stony Brook side of town — the grist mill and herring run, working and retired cranberry bogs, and wooded lots on sandy rises between low, damp ground. Drainage planning and wet-tolerant plantings do a lot of the heavy lifting here.

  2. Village

    Brewster Village & Route 6A

    Sea captains' houses, mature street trees, and formal dooryard gardens along the Old King's Highway. Most of what's visible from 6A falls under historic-district review, so plantings and hardscape here are chosen to fit the street, not fight it.

  3. East

    East Brewster & the Ponds

    Nickerson State Park, the big kettle ponds, and homes tucked back in the pitch pine and oak toward the Orleans line. Shade gardens, pond-edge buffers, and keeping mature trees healthy are the everyday work out here.

Our Work

Landscaping & Planting in Brewster, MA

Sears crew planting a large balled-and-burlapped spruce with a compact loader in Brewster MAMature red Japanese maple being planted in a Brewster MA gardenCrew augering a planting hole on a wooded lot in Brewster MASears / Davenport dump truck on a job site in Brewster MA

Brewster, MA

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes — across the whole town, from West Brewster and the Stony Brook valley to the village along Route 6A and out to East Brewster and the bay. Lawn care, cleanups, irrigation, tree and shrub work, planting, hardscaping, and snow removal.
Yes. Davenport Farms, our tree farm and nursery, is in Brewster. We bring in trees and shrubs from established growers and hold them there to be health-checked and acclimated to Cape Cod's soil, salt, and wind before we plant them. Visits are by appointment — call (508) 398-8151.
Our shop is at 221 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth, MA 02664, about 12 miles from Brewster by way of Route 6A, and our Brewster tree farm is closer still. Reach us at (508) 398-8151.
Yes. A lot of Brewster's Route 6A frontage sits in the Old King's Highway Regional Historic District, where changes visible from the road are reviewed. We keep plantings and hardscape in step with the historic character and can point you to what needs a certificate before work starts.
Call (508) 398-8151, email info@searslandscapingcapecod.com, or fill out the form on this site. Estimates are free, and we cover all of Brewster along with the rest of the Lower and Mid Cape.

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95 years on Cape Cod, and a tree farm right here in town.

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