Bristol

Bristol's downtown lots are compact and highly visible — front beds a few feet from the sidewalk, where a soft edge or a thin mulch line shows immediately. That's detail work, and it's what we're good at.

We cut a real spade edge on every bed we mulch here, and keep the hedges on a pruning schedule instead of a single hard cut a year, which is what keeps a Hope Street frontage looking deliberate rather than merely trimmed.

Out toward Poppasquash and the water, exposure picks up and the plant list narrows. We'll tell you before we plant something that won't make it through a second winter there.