April in Lunenburg is a slow reveal — the common greens up a full week before the hills do, and the white clapboard around the town center catches whatever sun there is. Central Mass Garden Center works that first stretch of the year and every stretch after it: cleanups, mowing once the growth gets serious, trimming, edging, beds turned and mulched. Watching a winter-flattened lawn stand back up over three weeks never gets old. North-central Massachusetts asks for patience in April and speed in June, and both belong to the job. By fall the same yards are raked clean and put to bed.