Winter in the Chattooga Valley settles into the hollows first — frost in the low ground below Menlo while the ridgetops are still dry. Marlow Landscape Services uses those short months for the structural work: clearing beds down to bare ground, cutting back what has gone woody, hauling off brush and limbs. When the valley warms and the dormant turf breaks green again, the mowing schedule starts and holds through the growing months. Edging gives each walk and drive a defined line; trimming finishes the corners a mower will never reach. Year to year, it is the same intention — ground kept in order between two mountains.