May in Troy smells like mulch and cut grass, and the beds around town go from bare to full in roughly ten days. Landscape Gardens works that surge — mowing, trimming, edging, bed care and general landscape upkeep — and then stays on into the cold to plow drives and clear walks. A garden is a slower kind of work than a lawn; it wants to be shaped across a season rather than fixed in an afternoon. The payoff lands in late June, when the plantings have closed together and the turf around them holds a crisp border all the way to the walk. By January the same property is asked to be safe rather than beautiful, and that gets its own kind of attention.