JR Landscaping

About JR Landscaping

Early light comes over Diamond Hill and slides down through Cumberland's ledge and stone-wall country, and that is when the work begins — mower lines drawn straight across a lawn above the Blackstone, edges cut so clean the grass stops like a shoreline. JR Landscaping keeps the whole calendar of a yard here: cutting, edging and cleanup through the green months, de-thatching, aeration and overseeding, seasonal fertilization treatments, spring and fall cleanups that strip the mill-village streets of their maple litter, hedges and shrubs shaped back to their proper posture, and new hedge, shrub and flower plantings set into the valley's dark soil. They build in stone as well — patios, walkways and retaining walls that settle into a slope and stay, holding a hillside the way the old walls in these woods have always done. Come winter, before the first cars move in Valley Falls, there is plowing, sanding and walkway shoveling, a driveway opened to bare pavement while the sky is still deep blue. The pleasure of it is simple and physical: a place that looks cared for from the road, in whatever season it happens to be wearing.