The old part of Southampton keeps old gardens: box hedges, lilacs by the porch, beds laid out a century ago by someone who knew exactly where the sun came from. Heirloom Gardens LLC tends that kind of ground — mowing and edging the lawn, weeding and mulching the borders, cutting back and clearing out as each season closes. Then December turns the same properties into shoveling and plowing work, with walkways and driveways opened and salt laid where the frost holds longest. Winter is when a garden's bones show, and there is something satisfying about clearing a path through snow past hedges you pruned in March. Same hands, same house, all the way around the year.