By Design Landscapes, Inc.

About By Design Landscapes, Inc.

Winter along the Manasquan River has its own light: the boats sit shrink-wrapped and white, the Glimmer Glass drawbridge stands still, and the marsh grass turns the color of old rope. By Design Landscapes, Inc. reads a forecast the way a captain reads a tide chart, staging trucks before the band of snow crosses inland and finally reaches the coast. The work is plowing, shoveling and ice control: opening drives, clearing walks, salting the shady stretch between houses that never sees sun all winter. Wind here scours one side of a driveway bare and drifts the other shut, so the same property gets visited twice. When the storm quits, the streets of Manasquan look ordinary again, and ordinary is exactly the intended effect.