A garden under snow is not gone, only sleeping, and clearing around one takes a different sort of attention. Stone & Flower Gardens & Landscape Design plows and shovels with the beds in mind, keeping piles off the perennials and away from the shrubs that edge a path, so that April finds them unbroken. Below the mouth of Cheyenne Cañon the cold air slides downhill at night and settles, and the walks there glaze early — those get treated with a light, deliberate hand. Drives are opened, steps and stone paths are cleared to their surface, and the routes people actually use are the ones that get walked first. Winter passes, and the plantings come back none the worse for it.