Blades & Roots

About Blades & Roots

Bermuda grass in Copperas Cove does its real work underground, sending runners sideways through hard clay until a thin June lawn quietly knits itself into a mat you could sleep on. Blades & Roots keeps both ends of that in mind — the blade set high enough through the hot months that the turf shades its own soil, and the beds kept open so shrubs are not fighting weeds for what the last rain left. Mowing, edging and close trimming make the weekly shape of it; pulling weeds from the beds and tipping back the shrubs is what keeps a yard from creeping over its own borders. Summer here asks for consistency more than heroics, one honest cut at a time until September finally cools. What shows up at the end of it is a lawn that looks deliberate right down to where it meets the fence.