Spring in Rockford is a negotiation. Snow can still find April, and then a week later the tulips are up in the sunken garden at Sinnissippi and every lawn in town needs its first cut on the same day. Gerar landscaping meets that rush with mowing, trimming, bed work and cleanups, opening yards back up after a long gray stretch and holding them even through the heat that follows. Work like this rewards a good eye — where to draw the bed line, how short is too short in July, when to let a lawn rest. By June the yards look intentional again, and that is the entire point.