Totowa's older streets climb away from the river in short terraces, and the yards along them are less flat rectangle than a run of small stages held up by stone and old maples. Patullo's Landscaping & Design works with that shape instead of against it — mowing each level cleanly, trimming the risers and wall bases where a mower cannot sit, cutting an edge that follows the curve of a walk rather than fighting it. Grass reads better when its boundaries are decided, and deciding them is half the job. Weekly cutting holds the color even through a long Passaic County summer, and the spring and fall cleanups clear first the beds and then the leaves. On a September afternoon, with the light coming sideways down the hill, a yard done this way keeps its lines all the way to the street.