The first mow of the year in Birmingham usually lands the week the ground finally gives underfoot and the last salt washes off Maple Road. GLM Landscaping starts there — spring cleanup first, raking out whatever winter matted down, then the cut that wakes an entire street up. After that it becomes a weekly rhythm: mow, trim, edge, blow the walks clean, and go. A Michigan spring travels from mud to jungle in about ten days, so the schedule gets set by the grass rather than the calendar. By the end of May the lawns look intentional again, which is precisely the point.