East of Winterville the pavement thins into red-clay lanes, hay fields and long driveways lined with honeysuckle. Pruitt & Sons Landscaping keeps lawns and grounds in shape out there as well as in town, where lots are smaller and the trimming takes as long as the mowing. June brings growth that gets ahead of a yard in a hurry, so the route runs steady and the edges stay defined. Mulch goes down around the foundation plantings, hedges get shaped, and anything that lands on the walk gets moved off it. A finished yard on those back roads reads from a quarter mile away — mowed green set against all that clay and pine.