Alvarez Landscaping & Gardening

About Alvarez Landscaping & Gardening

Fog settles over San Mateo before the town wakes, lying low across Central Park until the sun works it loose around nine. Alvarez Landscaping & Gardening likes those first hours — grass still cool, the mower leaving clean parallel bands down a front yard on a Baywood side street. Mowing, edging, trimming, weeding, feeding and carrying the clippings away: ordinary work, done until the lines run straight and the border between lawn and walkway is a single sharp seam. In the dry stretch from June to October the task is holding color in the blades; once the rains return it is cutting often enough to stay ahead of the flush. The route covers San Mateo and the towns folded in beside it.