By late July the afternoon builds over Horse Gulch — dark towers, twenty minutes of hard rain, then the whole east side steaming and smelling of wet oak. Blooming Landscape & Design likes the days right after those storms, when a mowed lawn comes back almost overnight and the beds want shaping again. Mowing, trimming, edging along walks and drives, and clearing away the season's spent growth: the plain rounds that keep a Durango yard from going shaggy between rains. A monsoon summer gives with one hand and asks with the other, and a lawn does best when someone is paying attention to both. When autumn arrives, the same yard gets put to bed neat and level.