March rain darkens the mulch, brings the Little River arm of the lake up brown, and pushes the first real growth of the year out of cold ground. Medina's Landscaping meets it with bed work — weeding, edging beds back to their shapes, laying mulch and pine straw, trimming shrubs before they run — and then the mowing, edging and string trimming that carry the rest of the year. A bed cut with a clean shoulder against the turf changes how a whole front yard reads from the road. Summer here is long and green; fall means leaves out of every corner and the beds tucked back in. Around Gainesville the red clay takes to anything you plant if you keep after it.