Spring reaches the pines in a modest way, with mountain laurel budding in the understory, a green haze low to the ground, and gardens waiting out the last cold night. Country Gardens tends the planted side of Manchester Township as much as the mown side, cutting in beds and mulching them, dividing perennials, pruning shrubs back to shape, and mowing, trimming and edging the lawn that frames it all. Sandy, acid ground grows some things beautifully and fights others, so the plan follows the soil instead of arguing with it. By June a front walk can look like somebody has been thinking about it all year, because somebody has. Serving Manchester Township, Whiting, Jackson and Toms River.