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. Patios, native gardens, outdoor kitchens, pools — designed to thrive in our climate, built to outlast the install.
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.
Tell us about your yard.
Most projects start with a site visit. Bring photos, Pinterest boards, or just a vague feeling about what you want. We take it from there.