Services

Garden design, installation, and the long-term care that holds it together.

We work primarily with homeowners on properties between a quarter-acre and five acres in the Austin Hill Country. Most projects fall into one of four service tracks — though we frequently combine them.

Native Texas garden design with limestone path

Landscape design

A complete master plan for your property — planting, hardscape, drainage, lighting, and irrigation drawn to scale, with a phased budget so you can build over one year or five.

Site analysis (soil, drainage, sun, microclimate)
Concept board with mood imagery and material samples
Scale drawings (plan view, key elevations, planting plan)
Itemized plant schedule and cost estimate
Two rounds of revisions included

Typical investment: $4,800–$14,000, depending on lot size and complexity. Most West Lake Hills residential projects fall in the $6–9k range.

Hardscape & outdoor living

Patios, paths, low retaining walls, fire features, and outdoor kitchens, built from materials that read as native to the land — primarily Texas limestone, decomposed granite, board-formed concrete, and locally milled cedar.

Lueders, cordova cream, and oklahoma flagstone patios
Dry-stacked and mortared limestone retaining walls
Wood-burning and gas fire pits, outdoor fireplaces
Pergolas and shade structures (cedar, steel, mixed)
Outdoor cooking islands with stone counters

Typical project range: $18,000 (small flagstone patio) to $140,000+ (full outdoor living suite).

Smart irrigation & rainwater

We install efficient drip systems that water roots, not air, controlled by Wi-Fi-enabled controllers that read local weather and skip cycles when they don't make sense. For larger sites, we integrate above- and below-ground rainwater harvesting cisterns.

Drip and micro-spray zones, sized per planting community
Rachio and Hunter Hydrawise smart controllers
Rain sensors and flow meters
Rainwater harvesting (500–10,000 gallon systems)
Greywater pre-plumbing where building permits allow

Most retrofits cut outdoor water use by 40–65% in the first full year.

Stewardship & seasonal care

We offer a small, capped roster of stewardship contracts for clients whose gardens we have designed. Two visits per season (eight per year), focused on editing rather than mowing — pruning natives correctly, dividing perennials, refreshing mulch, monitoring irrigation.

February cutback & soil refresh
April establishment check & spring edit
June irrigation audit & mulch top-up
October fall edit, division, and overseeding

Annual stewardship contracts begin at $2,400 for properties under half an acre.

Not sure which service fits?

Most clients begin with a single one-hour on-site consultation. We'll walk the property together, talk about what's working and what isn't, and you'll leave with a clear written recommendation — no obligation to hire us afterward.

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