April in the Pascack Valley starts underground: the ground gives, the Musquapsink Brook runs loud and brown, and the lawns of Westwood come back matted and mud-flecked from the winter. Arcadia Landscape&Construction takes that first pass — raking out the flattened grass, clearing the beds of what the storms dropped, cutting the season's opening mow a little high so the roots can find their feet. Fresh mulch goes down dark against new green and the whole yard seems to sit up straight. Spring here moves fast; a week of sun, a week of rain, and everything is growing at once. The pleasure is in staying ahead of it, week over week, until the property looks like it never fell behind.