Novi's newer neighborhoods curve instead of cornering — long drives that bend around a stand of oaks and end well back from the road. Those are the ones that ask something of a plow, and the ones that reward a mowing line held straight all the way through the bend. BLACKSTONE LANDSCAPING, INC. keeps both halves of that calendar: turf cut, trimmed and edged through the growing months, snow pushed clear and walks treated once the ground goes hard. November is the hinge, when the last leaves come down and the first flurries test the equipment on the same afternoon. The company serves Novi and its neighbors on either side of the county line.