Uptown Collinsville keeps a theatre marquee lit on Main Street after dark, and there is something of the same idea in a yard done well — a thing made to be looked at. Landscaping starts with the frame: bed lines drawn with a real curve, mulch laid even to the edge, plants set where their shape will read from the sidewalk. Then the canvas, which is the lawn itself, cut to one height and bordered so nothing bleeds past where it belongs. Illinois offers a long working season here, tulip weather in March and ground still warm into November, and a yard built across all of it keeps improving. A finished yard is composed, not merely cut.