January in Clinton turns the bermuda straw-brown and leaves frost on it until midmorning, but the camellias bloom anyway and the yard work does not stop. Stiefenhoefer Lawns uses the dormant weeks for what the growing season never allows: hauling off the last of the leaves, cutting bed edges back to a true line, taking overgrown shrubs down to a good frame. Winter limbs and storm litter get cleared before spring buries them under green. When the turf breaks dormancy in March, the mowing picks straight back up. A lawn tended in the cold months is the one that comes back thickest.