February in Habersham is brown and bare, and that is exactly when the next season gets decided. Shook's Landscape & Maintenance spends those short days pruning, cutting beds back and clearing what the wind dropped, so April's green-up arrives to a yard already prepared for it. Then the mowing begins and does not let up until October — edging, trimming, mulch, cleanups as the leaves start down. Landscape work is a long game played one week at a time. Around Cornelia, the yards that look effortless in June were handled back in February.