Not everything wants to live this far north, and a nursery in Emmet County learns quickly which things do — cedar, serviceberry, the hardy shrubs that shrug off a March that cannot make up its mind. David Hoffman Landscaping and Nursery brings that shortlist into Petoskey yards alongside the ordinary weekly care: mowing, trimming, edging, spring and fall cleanups, beds mulched and kept. Planting up here is an act of optimism with a plan attached — right species, right spot, room to grow into. The payoff runs long, a shrub set in June still holding the corner of a house well after the person who planted it has stopped thinking about it. Lawn and landscape tended by the same hands tend to agree with each other.