April on the Chapel Hill side of Douglasville smells like pine straw and turned earth. Carter Landscaping & More, LLC spends those weeks laying mulch and straw, shaping bed lines, trimming shrubs back into form, and getting mowing onto a regular footing before the grass takes off for the summer. The clay here is stubborn and generous at the same time — cut a bed edge right and it will hold that shape for months. By June the beds are dark, the shrubs are tight, and the lawn has a line around it as clean as a chalk mark. Carter works Douglasville and the towns nearby.