Early spring up above the Supply Ponds the ground is still cold, and the yards below sit matted with everything winter left behind. Blackstone Landscaping & Tree Service starts there — the spring cleanup, beds cleared and re-edged, fresh mulch laid, hedges and shrubs cut back, then mowing and trimming once the grass finally wakes. That first cleanup is the biggest single change a property gets all year: gray to green in one afternoon. After it comes the weekly rhythm, holding the shape all the way through the long green stretch to the fall cleanup. Branford and its neighboring towns, thaw to freeze.