Early spring along the corridor near Commerce shows first in the maples, red at the tips before anything else has decided to wake. The Rick's Group Landscape Management starts the year's schedule then — first mowings, bed edges cut clean, shrubs shaped, winter debris pulled off lawns, walkways and parking edges. Grounds that face a road get read by everyone who passes, so the trimming has to hold up at forty-five miles an hour. Through summer it is weekly mowing, string trimming, and every hard surface cleared before the gate closes. By the end of a route the whole property reads as one continuous idea.