In April the meadow at Shakerag Knoll goes loose and wild with color while the yards around town are still waking up, and the difference is entirely a matter of who tends what. Franks Landscape spends that season getting Peachtree City properties out of dormancy — beds cut back and reshaped, fresh mulch or pine straw laid in, shrubs pruned, the first even mows of the year going down on grass that has been waiting since February. Fayette County soil is stubborn red clay, and plantings that thrive here are the ones set in with care rather than hurry. Summer brings the steady rhythm of mowing and trimming; fall brings the leaves and the cutting back. Every visit leaves a property a little more finished than it was.