Spring arrives in Marietta by water first — Sope Creek loud with runoff, fog lifting off the Chattahoochee, dogwoods opening white against the pines. Then comes the pollen, a week of yellow on every hood and porch rail, and after the first hard rain the lawns wake up together. Tyler Landscape Company, LLC takes them from there: mowing on a set schedule, trimming around beds and mailboxes, cutting the walk lines back in, keeping the shaded corners and clay slopes from going ragged. The ground here is stubborn stuff — red clay that bakes hard in August and holds water in the low spots — so a yard that looks effortless has had hands on it. Marietta lawns, kept even from March through the long green end of summer.