The first cut of the year lands while the ground is still soft and the grass carries that raw wet green that only lasts a few weeks. Melrose Park Landscaping opens the season around Melrose then, cleanup first, then mowing, trimming, edging, and fresh mulch turned into the beds along the front walks. On a grid of close-set streets a yard is the part of a house people actually walk past, and the distance between ragged and kept is a couple of inches at the border. Through summer the rounds keep coming, rain weeks and heat weeks alike, and the schedule bends around neither. By fall it is leaves, and the same care goes into carrying them off.