It rains hard in these foothills, and a Clarkesville lawn can put on a week of growth in two days after a good storm. Perez Home Improvement Landscaping keeps up with it — regular mowing, edging where grass creeps over the concrete, string trimming around foundations and fences, and clearing everything off afterward. Beds get mulched in spring and shrubs get trimmed before they swallow a window. Late in the year the leaves become the whole job, load after load, until the yards go bare and orderly. Nothing complicated about any of it; the reward is a house that looks squared away from the curb.