Some of the ground around Chemung never fully dries out — the swales between fields, the soft margins where sedge and cattail take over and a red-winged blackbird calls all June from the same fencepost. Yards that back onto that kind of low ground are their own problem: heavy growth, spongy footing, a strip near the back line that will rut under a machine driven carelessly. Wetland landscaping mows those properties with that in mind, keeping the wheels where the turf can carry them and cutting so the lawn dries and knits instead of scalping into mud. The line where the mown grass meets the wild edge gets kept honest and clean, which is what makes a place look tended rather than merely cut. It is a good feeling to hand back a yard that is neat right up to where the marsh begins.