South of town the hazelnut rows at Dorris Ranch stand in long straight lines, and October turns the whole orchard floor the color of a paper bag. Diaz Gardening Services keeps that same order inside Springfield yards — shrubs pruned to shape, perennials cut back, the season's weeds pulled out of the bark and the bark refreshed where it has thinned. Lawns keep getting mowed and edged into fall, and leaves come off turf and beds before the rain mats them flat. Gardening asks for patience: a border cut back in autumn is a border that returns thick in spring. The work leaves a yard looking put away for winter rather than surrendered to it.