Elmhurst gardens in small increments — a strip beside the stoop, a raised bed at the corner of a driveway, a row of pots that turns a side alley into somewhere worth standing. Lhasa gardens LLC works at that scale, planting and weeding beds, pruning shrubs, refreshing mulch, and mowing and edging what lawn there is until it looks deliberate. Late April is the turn: the ground finally warm, everything going in at once, the whole block suddenly ahead of itself with green. Fall runs the other direction — cutting back, clearing leaves, putting the beds down for winter. A yard measured in feet still deserves to be composed.