Through the roots landscaping

About Through the roots landscaping

Port Orange grows on sand and shade, and the live oaks standing over the old Dunlawton rise understand it best of all — roots running wide and shallow, reaching through the same thin ground a lawn has to hold. Through the roots landscaping begins there, in the oak hammocks near Sugar Mill Gardens, where the morning arrives green and unhurried and the first pass of the mower leaves a stripe still dark with dew. The rounds are the ordinary ones: mowing, edging, string trimming, hedge and shrub shaping, weeding the beds and laying mulch back where the rain moved it. What makes it worth doing is the finish — grass cut level, edges cut true, nothing left scattered on the walk when the truck pulls away. Spring in this part of Volusia County comes on all at once, and a yard tended underneath is a yard ready to meet it.