Break ground anywhere in this corner of Gwinnett and you meet red clay — bright as brick, slick after a storm, hard as fired pottery in a dry August. MPV Landscaping LLC. works with it rather than against it, prepping soil and beds before a single plant goes in, then laying sod so the seams knit and a bare lot becomes a yard in a day. Plantings get set, mulch goes down, and the shape of the place finally makes sense. After that it's the long steady part: mowing, edging and trimming to keep what was built looking like it was meant to be there. Watching a raw March lot turn green by May never really gets old.