The thaw in Dowagiac is a slow reveal — grey drifts shrinking back off the yards, the ground going soft, and then one warm week when everything turns green at once. New Leaf Landscapes lives for that turn: raking out the winter mat, the first mowing of the year, edges trimmed back to where they belong. All summer the rhythm holds, week after week, until the leaves come down and get cleared away. And when the cold locks in again, the trucks go out to plow drives and shovel walks so nobody has to guess where the pavement is. Every spring the whole thing starts clean.