Late May on the Emerald Mountain side: serviceberry blooming white, the last gray snow hiding in north-facing shade. Gecko Landscape & Design meets the year at both ends — shaping beds, borders and plantings for a valley with a short season, mowing and trimming lawns through the green months, then turning to the plow and the shovel once the ground goes hard. Their eye is on the shape of a yard: how a path reads, where a stone wants to sit, what still looks composed under two feet of snow. In Steamboat Springs a landscape has to be beautiful twice, once in leaf and once in white. They build for both, and then they keep both cut and cleared.