Every April the pines dust Putnam County yellow, and then one good rain washes the whole county clean again — and that rinsed, brand-new light is the best time there is to look hard at a yard. Creative Design Landscaping starts right there: what should go where, which beds want reshaping, where a run of shrubs would make a front walk feel intentional. Plants go in, mulch and pine straw go down, and the grass is mowed, edged and tidied so the design has a frame to sit inside. The piedmont gives a long stretch of workable weather, from early green-up to the last warm weeks of October. A yard in Eatonton can be more than merely kept — it can be composed.