The big oaks and hickories on Grosse Ile push roots out farther than their branches reach, and the lawns here grow in and around them. Island roots lawn care and landscaping llc mows that dappled ground, where the sun travels all day and no two corners of a yard come on at the same rate. Cutting it even means adjusting for shade, then trimming tight to trunk, bed and stone without scarring bark. Autumn is serious business under trees that size — cleanups that carry load after load of leaf off the grass before the wet weather sets in. By the time the branches are bare, the lawn beneath them is clean.