February in Flowery Branch is brown and open, and from the higher ground toward Chestnut Mountain the foothills stack up blue in the distance. Dormant season is when a lawn's bones show — where edges have crept, where leaves piled into a corner all winter. Lawn Guardian uses those weeks for cleanup and cutback so the first warm spell finds a yard ready to go. Then the mowing starts and does not let up until fall: week on week, the same property kept the same careful way each visit.