February is the in-between month here: camellias still blooming by the steps, the lawn dormant and pale, everything waiting on the first warm week. Ritchey's Lawn & Landscaping Services LLC uses it for groundwork — clearing winter litter, cutting hard clean edges back into the beds, and getting that first mow in the moment the color turns. A yard shaped before spring never has to be caught up later. From there the season runs long, from the early cut clear through to the leaf drop of November. Around Tifton, Ty Ty, Brookfield, Chula and Sycamore.