Outdoor living designed to belong in Texas.
Greenline is an Austin design-build firm for homeowners who want a yard that looks like the Hill Country – not a Florida resort. Native gardens, hardscape, outdoor kitchens, pools.
Most Austin yards look great for one summer.
By year three, the tropicals are gone, the lawn is patchy, and the patio is settling. The pattern is so predictable we built our entire firm around fixing it.
Plants that don’t belong here
Tropicals and East Coast favorites cook in August. By year two, you’re replanting half the yard – or your old landscaper is, and you’re paying for it twice.
Lawns that drink the budget
A typical Austin fescue lawn pulls 60,000+ gallons a year and still browns in August. Then water restrictions hit and so does the patchwork.
Hardscape installed too fast
No drainage plan. No proper base. No edge restraint. The patio photographs beautifully on day one – then starts cracking by year three when our clay soil shifts.
A few yards we’ve built recently.
Live oak courtyard
Decomposed-granite courtyard beneath a 60-year-old live oak. Native understory, integrated stone seating, almost zero irrigation.
Hill Country terrace
Limestone patio with dry-stack walls, cedar pergola, outdoor kitchen, and full native garden. Hill-Country authentic.
Modern xeriscape
Lawn-free front yard – sculptural agaves, native grasses, Cor-Ten steel edging. 80% water reduction in year one.
Native by default. Built to last.
Three principles show up in every project we touch – from a $25k native garden to a $200k full-yard build.
Native by default
We design with what thrives in Central Texas – Mexican feather grass, Texas sage, live oaks, agave, decomposed granite, limestone. If a client wants tropicals or fescue lawn, we’ll tell them what it costs in water, replacements, and frustration – then design something better.
Outdoor rooms, not just yards
A yard is the space left over around a house. An outdoor room is designed: a fireplace anchors a sitting area, a pergola defines a dining zone, a kitchen flows from the back door. We design how people use the space – not just how it looks from the kitchen window.
Built to outlast the install
The pretty plants are the easy part. We obsess over the boring parts: drainage, soil amendment, root depth, irrigation zoning, mortar joints, edge restraint. A project that still looks good in year ten – that’s the standard, not the floor.
What working with us looks like.
Site visit
We walk the property, talk through how you want to use it, check soil + drainage + sun, and leave with a fixed-fee design proposal – usually within a week.
Master plan
2D plan view, material palette, native plant list, phased budget. You see it all before we touch a shovel. Design fee credits 100% toward the build.
Build
Our crew – not subs. We handle hardscape, planting, irrigation, lighting end-to-end. Most projects finish in 4–10 weeks.
Year-one care
Walk-through at 30 days, 6 months, and 12 months. Anything that doesn’t establish, we replace. 5-year warranty on hardscape.
A few yards we've handed over.
Real homeowners, real Austin neighborhoods, real budgets. Same questions you have – answered by people who've been through the process.
We'd been burned by two landscapers before finding Mara. The difference was clear in the first walkthrough – she had answers to questions we didn't know to ask. Two years in, the yard still looks like the day they finished. Sarah & David Bennett
Westlake · 2023 project
I asked for “cottage garden under a 60-year-old live oak.” What Greenline built is now the most-used part of our house. We eat dinner out there three nights a week from March to November. James Caldwell
Tarrytown · 2024 project
I wanted a modern, lawn-free front yard. Mueller has design review and I'd been turned down twice with other designs. Greenline's first submission was approved without revisions. Water bill dropped 70 percent. Priya Mehta
Mueller · 2024 project
Hillside lot overlooking Lake Travis. Two firms told us what we wanted was impossible. Greenline showed up with topographic drawings, did a soil probe, and gave us a phased plan we could actually afford. Year three and the terraces haven't moved. Marc Bouchard
Lakeway · 2022 project
Our bungalow needed a front garden that fit the architecture. Mara understood without me having to explain. Native plants, hand-laid limestone path, picket fence with crossvine. Neighbors stop to ask who did it. Linda & Pete Garcia
Hyde Park · 2024 project
Multi-acre ranch property on well water. Greenline designed a native meadow that uses about a tenth of the water our previous setup did. Zero plants died in year one. The Hill Country aesthetic is exactly right. Tom Whitley
Dripping Springs · 2023 project
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Pick up the phone – usually the fastest way to start. We answer 7am to 7pm, every day of the week.
Studio: 2010 E 7th St, Austin, TX 78702 · Serving Austin and the Texas Hill Country.
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Seven things we build in Austin.
Design-build under one roof. Limestone, native plants, real engineering on every project – from a $25k native garden to a full-yard build.
Austin and the Texas Hill Country.
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2010 E 7th St, Austin, TX 78702
East Austin design studio. By appointment, Tuesday through Sunday. Street parking on East 7th.
Recognized work in Austin and Texas.
External recognition for design quality, sustainability practice, and client experience.