The rose gardens at Yaddo sit on the east edge of Saratoga Springs, formal and patient, proof that a landscape holds its shape only because someone keeps returning to it. Lahm's Lawn & Landscape Service returns — mowing on schedule, trimming, edging beds and walks, mulching, and clearing the yard out in spring and again when the leaves fall. The pleasure is in the details: a border that stays a border, a strip along the drive cut clean, grass that reads even all the way from the road. The growing season here is quick and generous, and it rewards a steady hand more than a heroic one. Come November the yards are put to bed tidy, ready to be handed back to the snow.