WJ Smallwood Landscaping

About WJ Smallwood Landscaping

A cared-for property pays its people back in small daily currencies — a lawn that invites bare feet in July, a driveway already open at six in the morning while the rest of the street is still buried. WJ Smallwood Landscaping works that trade in Salem, New Hampshire, where granite ledge shoulders up under thin topsoil and the late light off Canobie Lake comes in low and gold through the white pines. In the green months the work is mowing and turf care, grass cut to an even nap and the edges drawn clean along walks, beds and the old mill-town sidewalks; come the cold, it turns to plowing and clearing snow before the day can start. There is a plain physical satisfaction in it — mown lines still legible at dusk, pavement dark and wet and passable an hour after a storm. A yard that holds its season is the whole point, and this is how it gets held.