On the bay side of Long Beach Island the light turns gold an hour earlier than it does anywhere inland, and September hands the streets back after the summer crowd. Corbett Landscape Design Inc works the island's yards — design and planting laid out for sand and salt wind, lawns mown and edged, beds mulched and kept, cleanups when the season turns. The ground out here is sand under an inch of soil, so a plan that ignores drainage and spray never sees a second year. Dune grass, bayberry, a strip of turf holding green between two boardwalk paths: it takes real planning to make small ground feel generous. The reward is a house that looks like it belongs on the island instead of set down on it.