April in the Pascack Valley starts with forsythia — yellow along the fences before anything else is willing — and ground finally soft enough to put a spade into. ROOTING FOR YOU Garden services LLC opens the year right there: cleanups, beds cut back and edged, mulch spread dark, the first mowings while the grass is still tender, seed where winter thinned things out. From there it becomes a weekly rhythm of cutting, trimming and hedge work until the oaks let go and the season closes with the leaves. Gardens in Park Ridge sit close to the house and close to the street, which makes tidiness a kind of hospitality. That is the result worth chasing, bed by bed.