June in Norwalk is loud with green — the meadow grass up at Fodor Farm gone shaggy, the shade deepening over Mathews Park, everything growing faster than anyone planned for. Soft-scape design here leans native: planting beds built around what actually belongs on this coast, so the bed still looks like itself in a dry August and a wet October. Week to week it is mowing, trimming and blowing, the edges kept honest, plus lawn fertilization and treatment and the pruning that keeps trees and shrubs in good shape rather than merely smaller. Spring and fall cleanups bracket the year at both ends. When the cold sets in, there is seasoned firewood delivered and stacked, and plowing and shoveling for the mornings that start under a foot of snow. Lower Fairfield County, one property at a time.