Good Green Neighbors

About Good Green Neighbors

Ladd's Addition folds its streets into diamonds around four small rose gardens, and in June the whole neighborhood smells like them. Good Green Neighbors keeps the compact inner-southeast lawns that sit inside those spokes — quick parcels where a mower has to turn often and the edge along the sidewalk is most of what anyone sees. Mowing, edging, trimming, weeding the parking strips, feeding the turf, and clearing leaves in the fall: the list is short and the standard is not. A good cut here gets measured in inches from the fence and in how little trace is left behind. Portland is a city of front porches, and a lawn is what a porch looks at.