April greens the Tam O'Shanter fairways on Howard Street well before anyone's front lawn catches up, and the rest of Niles spends a few weeks waiting its turn. JHC Landscaping Company starts where the season starts: raking out what winter left behind, taking the first cut, then settling into weekly mowing, trimming and edging as the ground warms. Spring in Cook County is unreliable — a warm Tuesday, a cold rain on Thursday — and the schedule bends around it. Once the grass commits it goes fast, and a lawn kept even from that very first pass never has to be rescued in June. Straight edges, level turf, nothing left lying in the street.