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Landscape Design

When it comes to design, we love natural, native, and balanced gardens based around your lifestyle. There are many factors to consider: sun and soil; seating and gathering areas; kids, dogs, cats, lizards, and any other animal friends; play and shade;…When all these elements work in harmony that old green box of a yard can become a retreat back into nature.

Hardscaping

Every great yard needs a balance of landscape and hardscape. Thinking through drainage needs, pathways, gathering and eating spaces, recreation areas, and utility areas is key to creating an outdoor space that can serve any lifestyle.

With all the great natural resources in Central Texas like our limestone and lueder pavers and crushed granite for pathways and driveways, blending the soft with the hard can be kept native.

Native Meadows

Using a mix of potted plants and seeds, we can turn your property into a naturalistic setting criss-crossed by winding paths where you will find hidden nooks and open areas to sit and relax in, host gatherings, or warm by the firepit.

By installing a native meadow, we can help you return your yard to nature and let it begin to give back instead of take away from our local ecosystem.

Planting

When it comes to plants our focus is on…you guessed it—native plants! Texas shares native plant ecosystems with North Mexico, the prairies of the Great Plains, and even regions in Canada, meaning we have a wide swath of plants to choose from. But there is often room for adapted plants as well, and we love to include non-invasive adapted plants into our landscapes.

With our gardens we like to flip the old thinking of using lawn as a space filler—like flooring for your yard—to a more holistic (and dare we say beautiful?) approach. After identifying where the useable spaces are—be it hardscape or yes, even lawn—we then fill all the blank space with dense plantings that will begin to stitch your private retreat back into the surrounding ecosystem.

Lawn Replacement

Did you know that there are 40 million acres of lawn in U.S., which makes up 2% of the total land area? That’s more than all of the paved area combined. And all of those acres of lawn use 20 trillion gallons of water every single year. To put that into perspective, all crops in the U.S. use 30 trillion gallons per year.

That’s why it’s not our first choice to install lawns, and we’d much rather help you choose beautiful blends of hardscaping and native plant landscaping to create a more sustainable yard.

However, if a lawn makes the most sense for your space, we can still help. We just do it in a more sustainable way by:

Putting in smaller lawns - only the size you actually need, even if that’s a full-scale soccer field!
Making them lower maintenance - simple shapes that are easy to maintain and thus use less gas and energy.
Placing the lawn in full sun to lower water and fertilizer consumption.