The old streets near Hamilton House keep their deep front lawns and their boxwood, and those yards ask for design as much as maintenance. Dilbeck Lawn & Landscape Design, Inc. answers on both counts — laying out beds and plantings that suit a house, then keeping the grass mown, edged and trimmed so the design holds. Mulch goes down each season to hold the lines, shrubs get shaped before they sprawl, and weeds get pulled before they set seed. Dalton's clay and its long warm summers reward planning: what is planted right stays right for years. By October, when the hardwoods along Thornton turn, the leaves get cleared and the beds are squared away for winter.