Late February in Stockton is a gentle stretch — camellias still holding, live oaks throwing long shade over the old road north, the grass thinking hard about waking up. Sohn's Landscaping & Lawn Care Service uses that window to put north Baldwin County yards in order before the season gets away: the first cut brought down to an even height, winter debris lifted off the lawn and out from under the shrubs, walks and drives edged back to a defined line. Trimming takes the fence rows and the awkward ground around trunks and posts. From there it is steady weekly mowing straight through a growing season that hardly lets up. A yard under those oaks looks its best when the lines are honest and the ground beneath them is bare.