April in Magoun Square arrives as mud, noise and sudden growth — the sand from winter still in the gutters, the ground soft, the grass going from gray to green in the space of a week. Miltons landscaping Inc opens the season there, raking out the winter's grit, taking the first cut, cleaning the beds down to bare soil before anything can seed into them. From then it is mowing on a weekly clock, edging along the front walks, and trimming shrubs back off the porches and the fence lines. On streets that slope toward the Mystic, the low corners stay wet into May, so timing the first mowings matters as much as the mowing itself. By Memorial Day the yards are caught up and the summer rhythm takes over.