April is planting weather in McDonough, when the ground has warmed and the clay banks along Turner Church Road are threaded with new green. J Murillo Landscaping works that window — sod laid tight and rolled in, shrubs set with room to grow into, beds cut and mulched dark and even. New landscape is mostly patience: the right plant, the right depth, water through the first weeks, and mowing kept up while the roots take hold. Done that way, a yard that started as bare dirt looks like it belongs to the house by midsummer. Watching sod knit into one solid lawn is a good measure of a job.