North Riverside packs a lot into a small footprint: brick bungalows on straight blocks, the Des Plaines timber close by to the west, and back gardens you reach through a side gate with the mower tipped just so. M & M Landscaping works those tight, tidy lots where every square foot shows and the parkway strip out front is half the impression. Mowing on a set week, trimming around the stoop and the fence line, an edge cut along the walk that makes the whole yard sit up straight. In April the beds get cleared of everything winter blew in from the alley; in November the silver maples drop enough leaves to bury a lawn twice over, and those come out too. Small yards, given real attention, look like the neighborhood they belong to.