On Douglas Avenue the Victorians sit back behind deep front lawns, and those lawns ask for something in every month of the year. Adams landscaping keeps them through the green stretch — mowing, edging, and the leaf work that lands hard in October when the maples let go all at once. Then the calendar turns and the same driveways need a different machine: plow blade, shovel, salt at the front steps before anyone in the house is awake. Winter reaches Elgin on a west wind with no hills to slow it, and a cleared walk by six in the morning is its own kind of hospitality. Lawn care and snow removal in Elgin, South Elgin, Carpentersville and West Dundee.