Down in Brantley County the land lies flat and sandy under longleaf pine, and the growing season runs long enough that the grass barely takes a rest. Emerald Turf Services keeps Nahunta lawns on a cutting schedule that matches it, mowing through the heat and the sudden coastal-plain downpours that pile up in the afternoon. Edging gives the drive and the front walk a straight border again. Trimming handles the pine bases, the fence corners and the ditch edges, and everything is blown off the concrete before the crew pulls out. In a place this green for this many months of the year, keeping a yard even and clean is real work — and it shows.