Royal Oak's brick bungalows sit low and square on their lots, and the ones that look right are framed by beds and borders that make the whole house seem deliberate. Stoneys Landscaping works that frame: mowing, trimming, edging, mulch and bed upkeep, the big tidy-ups in April and November, and plowing, hand-shoveling and salting once the yard goes dormant. Landscape work is one part planting and two parts upkeep, and it is the upkeep that decides how a place looks three summers on. Winter is when you learn whether the layout was thought through, because the snow has to go somewhere. Getting that right in July is what pays in January.