Iowa Landscape

About Iowa Landscape

Fog sits flat on the Iowa River most summer mornings and burns off about the time the first mower starts. Iowa Landscape likes that hour — grass still cool, stripes laying over damp turf, the trimmer line finding fence posts and hydrants while the town is quiet. From the river bottoms up to the flat streets east of downtown the routine holds: cut, trim, edge, clear the walks. Come autumn the leaves off the big silver maples get gathered rather than argued with, and cool-season seed goes down where shade has thinned things out. By the time the light is high, the yard looks like nobody was ever there but the grass.