The Hickory Tree corner has been a landmark in Chatham Township for as long as anyone here has been giving directions, and in a snowstorm it is the first place people want opened. Hickory Tree Landscaping runs the winter side of the year hard — driveways plowed, walks shoveled, salt down before ice can set on a north-facing step. In the green months the work turns to weekly mowing, edging and trimming, with fertilizing and overseeding to hold turf together under the township's big canopy. Autumn is leaves, endlessly, and they clear them off the lawns before a wet snow can press them into a mat. Two demanding seasons, handled properly, and the ground comes through both of them.