The Merry Acres streets hold brick ranch houses, deep front lawns and camellias that bloom while everything else is asleep. Merry Acres Landscaping keeps that stretch of Dougherty County looking the way it was drawn — grass cut even, beds edged to a clean spade line, shrubs held to a shape that fits the house. The work runs on a calendar: mowing through the long season, trimming and shaping as needed, cleanup when the leaves come down. Older neighborhoods reward steadiness more than anything else. Drive through on a Friday and you can tell which yards have somebody looking after them.