By late July the crape myrtles along Hephzibah's front yards are letting go pink by the handful, and a bed that was sharp in April has gone soft at the shoulders. That is where Cheatham's Landscaping comes in — re-cutting the bed line by hand, pulling what does not belong, laying fresh mulch dark against the green, then shaping the shrubs so the house has an outline again. We mow and trim too, because a planting only looks as good as the lawn running up to it. There is a moment when the mulch is down and the last edge is cut and the yard suddenly makes sense; we work all day for that moment. Hephzibah, Blythe and the nearby stretches of Richmond and Burke County.