The El Rio Canal runs north through Boca Raton like a green seam, herons standing in the shallows while traffic hums a block away. Altera Landscaping works the neighborhoods stitched along it, mowing turf that drinks up canal-side humidity and shooting up an inch after every rain. Shrubs get thinned and rounded, beds get re-edged, and the ragged growth that creeps in from the swale gets cut back to a line. Seasonal cleanups clear the leaf drop and stray fronds that collect against fences. What the crew is after is simple: a yard that looks tended from the street and stays that way until the next visit.