Gardner's oldest residential blocks, platted long before Johnson County's recent growth curved subdivisions out in every direction, still carry the biggest shade trees in town — heavier, gnarlier growth than anything planted along the newer streets. KC Tree Works LLC keeps a close eye on exactly those older trees when an ice storm moves through, since a mature limb is a different hazard than a fresh two inches of snow on a driveway. Once the immediate hazard's cleared, the same trucks handle both problems in one pass: plow the drive, salt the walk, note whatever's still hanging overhead for later. Gardner's fast growth has pushed new streets right up against old farm windbreaks at the edge of town, and those remnant treelines catch and hold snow in bands long after the open yards around them have blown clear. The crew works those shaded stretches last, since they're the last to actually need it, finishing the day working from the town's older core out toward its newest additions.