This corner of Lake County is really a woodland that agreed to hold houses — oak and hickory over the ravines, gardens fitted into whatever light comes through. Urban Forest and Garden LLC works with that arrangement across West Deerfield Township: mowing and trimming through the season, edges held along walks and beds, mulch renewed, turf fed where the canopy allows it and let be where it will not. April is the best of it, ephemerals up in the leaf litter, the lawn waking in patches, the whole year still ahead. Cleanups clear both the winter's fall and the autumn's, which is a heavier job here than in most places. A yard under big trees can look wonderful; it simply cannot look like a fairway, and that is fine.