Manton sits high and north, where the highway climbs toward the cedar swamps and the growing season shows up a couple of weeks late and leaves early. Damman Gardening and Landscape Services makes the most of that short green stretch — steady mowing, trimming out the corners a mower cannot reach, and putting the beds down properly when the light thins. Northern lawns grow slow and fine, and they hold a cut beautifully if someone is paying attention to blade height and to the wet spots that do not dry till noon. Spring here starts with pulling the sand and grit off the edges of every drive and raking the winter matting out of the grass so it can green. By June the yards look like they had been waiting for it.