Down at Merrimacport the river is wide and slow and still answers the tide, and by mid-May the banks have gone from grey to a green that seems to double overnight. Cardone Landscapes takes its cue from that turn: mowing on a steady rhythm, cutting fresh edges where lawn meets bed, laying mulch dark enough to make everything planted in it look deliberate. Spring cleanups pull the winter sand and matted leaves out of the corners; fall cleanups put the yard to bed before the light goes short. There is real satisfaction in stepping back at the end of an afternoon and seeing the bed lines curve the way the ground actually wants them to. Merrimac rewards that kind of attention — small streets, close neighbors, lawns that run right down to the road.