Drawn before it is built
The layout goes down in paint and edging over barrier, and you walk it on the ground before the stone arrives. That is the whole difference between a design and a pile of gravel.
Xeriscaping
A xeriscape that was drawn, not dumped.
Turf out, stone and drought tolerant planting in, set to a layout you see on the ground before anything is placed.
Start here
Show us the land you want finished.
Tell us what the property needs and send a photo or two. The first site walk is free, and it happens before anything gets drawn.
Name, phone, and email are all we need. Everything else is optional and just helps us come prepared.
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What this covers
Most rock yards were never actually designed.
That is what people picture when they hear xeriscaping. The lawn scraped off, fabric rolled out, one load of gravel spread flat over the top, and a front yard nobody wants to stand in. It is quick, and it looks it.
Our work starts on paper and then goes down in paint. Bed lines and stone zones are marked out and walked before a single stone is placed, so the shape of the yard is a decision somebody made rather than whatever the delivery left behind.
Planting gets the same treatment. Drought tolerant is not the only thing a plant has to survive here, because this clay sheds water in August and holds it in May, and plenty of what gets sold as low water will not take both in the same year.
We do this across Seguin, New Braunfels, San Marcos, Kyle, and the ranch country in between, on whole front yards and on the hard dry corners of a larger property.
- Existing turf removed and the ground prepared, not just covered over
- Bed lines and stone zones marked out and walked before anything is placed
- Steel edging holding every band, bed, and drive line
- Stone chosen and laid in zones, rather than one load spread flat
- Feature boulders set into the beds instead of dropped on top
- Trees and shrubs worth keeping retained and worked around
- Drip irrigation for the planting that stays, and lighting run through the beds
Drought tolerant is half the test
A plant here has to take a dry August and a wet May in the same year. We choose for ground that swings, not for a tag at the nursery that says low water.
Less water, not less yard
The point is a property that still reads finished with the watering cut back. If it only works as a rock lot, it was not worth doing.