Montvale still has the shape of farm country under it — long flat parcels off Grand Avenue that grew fruit before they grew neighborhoods. Gardens By Design works that ground in a domestic key now: lawns mowed and edged, beds mulched and kept clean, yards held in good order from the first warm week to the last. Spring arrives here in a rush, everything greening within days of everything else, and the opening cuts of the year set the tone for all of it. Shade from mature trees makes half the town's turf a negotiation — thin in places, thick in others — and it gets treated accordingly. A lawn that looks effortless has usually had somebody standing in it every week.