Forbestown sits high in the Butte County foothills, a Gold Rush settlement where red earth shows between ponderosa pines and black oaks on the ridges above the Feather River country. Flore’s Landscaping works ground with a mind of its own: sloped, rocky in places, and quick to dry once the spring rains move on. Getting a yard to sit right up here means working with the hillside instead of against it. In April the dogwoods open white beneath the pines and the grass comes up thick, the moment when clean edges and cleared beds make the most of the season. Flore’s gives that sense of shape to a mountain town still close to its wild beginnings.