August evenings on Nahant Street turn gold about seven, and a lawn cut that same afternoon looks like it was drawn with a straightedge. Jeff's Landscape Inc keeps Wakefield yards on that kind of schedule — mowing on a set week, trimming close around posts and foundations, edges recut so the grass stops exactly where it is meant to. Mulch goes in during spring, hedges stay off the walk, thin patches get seed and attention. In the fall the leaves come off before they mat down and smother whatever is underneath them. The work is repetitive by design, and that is precisely why a lawn still looks right in the sixth month as much as the first.