Early morning in Center, before the humidity has made up its mind, a yard is at its best — dew still on the Bermuda, mockingbirds arguing in the crepe myrtles. The Nature Gardeners work that hour: mowing, edging along beds and borders, trimming carefully around trunks and plantings, and clearing the clippings so the green reads uncluttered. The care shows most where the lawn meets everything else — the bed line, the walk, the base of a tree. Across Center and the surrounding Shelby County towns, they hold those lines through the long growing season.