Before the subdivisions, this ground was bur oak and tallgrass, and out along Jelke Creek you can still find the shape of it standing in the shade. Rooted Landscape Group takes its cue from what happens below the surface, the idea that a lawn is soil first and the green on top is only the report. The work is lawn care on a rotation: mowing, trimming and edging, bed and mulch upkeep, aeration and overseeding once the autumn rains come back. Clay-heavy Illinois ground packs itself hard by August, and opened up and fed it answers quickly. A yard treated as living material rather than carpet shows it in September, when everything around it has gone tired and it has not.