Tropical maintenance

About Tropical maintenance

From May onward the afternoon builds its own weather here — a wall of cloud stacking inland by two o'clock, rain by three, then steam lifting off the pavement. Tropical maintenance works the hours around that, cutting and trimming in the bright window ahead of the storm and coming back for the yards it still owes. All that rain is why South Florida grass moves so fast, and keeping pace with it is the entire job: weekly mowing, edging along drives and walks, shrubs held back from windows, clippings blown up and hauled away. The reward is a lawn that looks deliberate in a climate that would rather be jungle. Lake Worth Beach and the towns around it grow generously, and this is the work that gives all that growth a shape.