Spring comes up fast along Buford Highway — one warm week and every strip of green between the parking lots and the bungalows is growing again. Cortes landscaping works Chamblee, Doraville and Brookhaven through it, mowing and edging on a set weekly schedule once the season opens. There is bed work as well: mulch spread by hand, borders cut fresh, shrubs shaped before the heat, trimming close along walks and fence posts. Georgia summers are long, and holding a property even from March to November takes showing up rather than heroics. The reward is a yard that never looks like it got away from anyone.