Kearny keeps its Scottish streak close — the thistle turns up on signs and shopfronts, and along the older avenues you will find hedges kept square and lawns kept short in that same tidy spirit. Ron Smith Landscaping works in that grain: mowing to an even height, edging where turf meets slate, shaping shrubs and hedges so a front yard has clean architecture instead of just greenery. Spring on this ridge arrives in a rush once the wind turns, and the cleanups that clear winter's litter set up everything that follows. Through the summer it is steady maintenance, the unglamorous rhythm that keeps a place looking composed week after week. There is real satisfaction in the last pass of the day, when the clippings are gone and the yard looks like it simply grew that way.