Spring reaches this coast slowly, held back by cold water in the Great South Bay, and then all at once the yards out near Heckscher State Park go from brown to green in a matter of days. Fredy's Landscaping meets that turn with the first cleanup of the year — beds cleared, winter debris carted off, the first cut of a season that will run into November. After that it becomes rhythm: mowing, edging, trimming, keeping the lines honest while the days stretch out. Something about the first mow of April is worth taking pride in, when a lawn stops looking abandoned and starts looking like somebody's.