Red Dirt Landscape

About Red Dirt Landscape

Everything in Anna starts with the dirt. Down by the old rail line and the grain elevator, where the town began, the soil is the same deep prairie clay that runs under every subdivision north of there — black when it is wet, pale and split when July has had its way. Landscape work here is soil work first: beds turned and shaped, mulch laid down to hold what moisture there is, borders drawn so the yard has an outline. Then the ordinary faithfulness of mowing, edging and trimming keeps it all reading right. Ground this stubborn gives back exactly what is put into it, which is a fair enough deal.