Big Creek moves slow and green through the middle of Alpharetta, and the greenway boardwalk carries walkers out over water that barely admits it is moving. Associated Environmental tends the lawns and grounds up the slope from that creek — mowing on a set rhythm, edging, bed maintenance, weed control and fertilization timed to what the grass is actually doing. Summer here is humid enough that growth outruns the calendar, and the only honest answer is to come back. Every clean pass is a small argument that a place is being looked after. By the time the heat breaks in September, the turf has the whole record written in it.