St. Mary’s Lawn and Garden

About St. Mary’s Lawn and Garden

Some mornings the fog drifts up off Tuttle Creek Lake and spreads across the hills around Olsburg like wool pulled loose from a spindle, and the grass beneath it hangs heavy and wet. St. Mary’s Lawn and Garden works in this Flint Hills country, tending lawns and garden beds in a small town where the native prairie is never more than a fence line away. There is patience in the work: mowing in clean, even passes, trimming each border until the yard looks deliberate against all that limestone-ribbed open land. By noon the lake has turned bright blue in the distance, and a finished lawn at the edge of town looks as if it grew up out of the hills on purpose. That is the aim every visit — a yard and garden that feel cared for, in a place that rewards care.