Basom sits at the edge of the Iroquois refuge, where cattail marsh gives way to farm ground and spring arrives on the noise of returning geese. V&M Services/ Landscaping Design mows and shapes the lawns that hold that line, the tended green between wet woods and open field. Work here starts as soon as the ground firms up, with grass cut on a rhythm and edges kept crisp against gravel and stone. A designed yard in this country is not fussy — it is beds that make sense, a lawn that lies even, a border that reads clean from the road. On a still evening with the light going long over Oak Orchard, a well-kept property out here looks like it belongs exactly where it is.