The frontage along Route 3 greens up fast in May, the medians and entrance strips and the grass between a parking lot and the road, all of it somebody's first impression. East Coast Lawn Care Inc. mows that kind of ground around Fredericksburg along with the yards on the streets behind it, holding height even and cutting the edge where turf meets curb. Spring rain out of the Piedmont can drop an inch overnight and set the whole corridor growing at once. Cutting on schedule through that surge is the difference between a property that looks maintained and one that looks left alone. Later in the year it turns to cleanups, with leaves cleared off the turf before the cold sets in.