Some yards need cutting and some need rethinking: a slope that sends water at the porch, a bed line drawn wrong the first time around. S&M Landscaping and Construction LLC takes on both around Gainsboro, from the regular mow and trim to grading, bed building and the hardscape that gives a property its bones. The ground out here is red clay under a thin skin of topsoil and it argues back, so the answer is patience and sending the water where you tell it to go. By October the light comes in low and gold across the hills and every edge and grade line shows plainly. Reshaping ground so it drains right and reads right is work that stays done.