Your Neighborhood Gardener

About Your Neighborhood Gardener

On the east side, where Washtenaw climbs past the Tuomy hills, the houses sit back behind deep front beds that reward a careful hand. Your Neighborhood Gardener works close to the ground: weeding and tidying beds and borders, mowing and string trimming the lawn, edging so the planting lines stay legible, and running the seasonal cleanups that reset a yard in spring and put it to bed in fall. The scale is a street at a time rather than a fleet — one property finished properly before the next one starts. Ann Arbor's growing season is generous and brief, and a garden shows every week it was skipped. The good afternoons end with dark soil clear between the plants and nothing out of place at the curb.