Spring shows up in Franklin Lakes as yellow first — forsythia along the old stone walls, then the dogwoods opening in the woods out by the Nature Preserve. Garden Grove Landscaping meets that turn with the year's opening work: raking out the winter, cutting back beds, laying mulch, and starting the mowing once the ground firms enough to hold a machine. Through summer it becomes routine — mow, trim, edge, blow clean — and the routine is precisely what keeps turf thick. Come autumn the leaves land here nearly all at once, and getting them off the grass before the first hard frost matters more than any single cut in July. One piece of ground, carried all the way around the year.