Gardens that belong here.
We design gardens with what thrives in Central Texas — feather grass, Texas sage, blackfoot daisy, agave, live oaks. Fewer plants, layered like a Hill Country meadow, with almost no irrigation after year one.
Most Austin gardens fail by year three.
Tropical favorites cook in August. Annual replanting becomes a budget drain. The yard never settles into itself the way native gardens do.
Wrong plants for our climate
Big-box garden centers stock what sells nationally. Most of it dies in our heat or rots in our wet winters. We plant only what proves itself in Central Texas.
Replacements built into the budget
Cheap garden installs assume 30% of plants will die. We assume close to 0%. The difference is selection, soil prep, and not planting in July.
No layering, just rows
Nursery-grade landscaping plants in straight lines. Native gardens are layered — canopy, understory, ground plane — like the Hill Country itself.
Six ways we plant for Texas.
We build the garden styles we’ve perfected. Each one suits a different site, lot size, and design intent.
Pollinator gardens
Native flowering plants timed for monarchs, hummingbirds, and native bees from March to November.
Drought-tolerant beds
Once established, no supplemental watering beyond a few summer drinks. Agave, yucca, salvia, sotol, feather grass.
Native lawn alternatives
Buffalo grass, Habiturf, or no-mow native sedges. 70-90% less water than fescue, no chemicals.
Privacy screens
Native cedar, evergreen sumac, possumhaw, Mexican plum. Living screens that look like Texas, not Florida.
Edible natives
Texas mountain laurel, agarita, native pecan, prickly pear. Beautiful and productive.
Meadow gardens
Larger informal plantings of native grasses, asters, gaillardia, blackfoot daisy. Movement, scent, ecology.
Native by default. Layered. Lasting.
Native by default
Mexican feather grass, Texas sage, blackfoot daisy, agave, live oaks, decomposed granite. If you want tropicals, we’ll show you what they cost in water, replacements, and frustration — then design something better.
Designed for water-wise
We design for our actual rainfall pattern — dry summers, wet winters. After year one, most of our gardens need only a few summer waterings. Built-in resilience to water restrictions.
Fewer plants, more carefully chosen
A garden of 12 species placed deliberately outperforms a garden of 40 chosen at the nursery. Discipline in plant selection is how the garden looks designed, not decorated.
What working with us looks like.
Site visit
We walk the property, talk through use, check drainage and 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 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-throughs at 30 days, 6 months, and 12 months. Anything that doesn’t establish, we replace. 5-year warranty on hardscape.
Tell us about your project.
Most projects start with a site visit. Bring photos, Pinterest boards, or just a vague feeling. We’ll take it from there.