Alves landscape

About Alves landscape

Abington's older streets keep their stone walls low and their dooryards right up against the road, so a lawn here gets read at walking speed — from the sidewalk, from the mailbox, from a neighbor's porch across the way. Alves Landscape works those yards with mower and trimmer, cutting clean lines around maples and granite posts and carrying off the leaf drift that piles up near Island Grove come October. There is a plain, physical pleasure in the after: the straight edge along a front walk, the mulch beds squared dark against new green, a small lot sitting level and finished in the flat South Shore light. Spring cleanups open the year, the weekly cut carries it, and the fall work puts every yard to bed before the cold comes up off the water.