Black River landscaping

About Black River landscaping

Where the Black River bends past town it leaves gravel bars and a low green shelf of sycamore, and the whole valley smells of water after a rain. Black River landscaping takes its name from that current and works the yards it waters, mowing in the long evening light when the heat finally lets go. Grass on this bottom ground comes up fast and comes up thick; it wants cutting, edging and hauling off, and it wants it often. There is a pleasure in walking away from a yard reduced to its lines again — walk, drive, border, lawn. Poplar Bluff asks for that all summer, and the answer is simply to keep showing up.