Ground on the Cumberland Plateau does not lie flat for long; it pitches off toward a creek or climbs into the Daniel Boone timber behind the house. Pratts Landscaping Experts works with that rather than against it — mowing and trimming on the slope, shaping and edging beds, laying mulch, and cutting back whatever has crowded the walk since spring. Autumn is a good season for that work, once the heat lets go and the oaks begin dropping. A bank cut clean and a bed given a fresh edge will hold that shape all the way into winter. The yard ends up looking like it was planned instead of merely kept up.