Burke County lies flat and wide open around Sardis, cotton going white in the late-summer fields and pine stands squaring off the horizon. Sarge's Landscaping Services, LLC brings that same straightness into the yards here — mowing in clean parallel passes, shaping shrubs, laying beds with borders you could sight down. August heat is a serious thing on this ground, so the trailer rolls early and the water jugs ride along. Come fall the landscape work turns to planting, mulching and cutting things back into a shape that will hold through winter. A yard kept in order is a small, plain kind of pride, and out here it shows from a long way off.