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Yards that changed course.

What was there, what grows now, and what it takes to keep it going. Every plant listed links to its card in the library.

A spring meadow of purple, pink and white wildflowers

Travis Heights · Lawn to meadow · 2024

The front lawn that became a meadow.

Before2,400 sq ft of St. Augustine, watered twice a week, mowed every Saturday.
NowA meadow of 46 native species with a mown edge and a path to the porch.
0waterings since the first summer
46native species
1mow a year
Little bluestemTexas bluebonnetMexican hatBlack-eyed SusanWinecup
A small house with a front garden of orange and silver plants beside a gravel walk

Bouldin Creek · Pollinator garden · 2025

A cottage yard planned around the monarch migration.

BeforePatchy Bermuda grass and two hedges of non-native shrubs.
NowLayered beds with bloom every month from February to November and milkweed by the walk.
10months of bloom
31species planted
3 hrof care a month
Antelope horns milkweedTexas lantanaAromatic asterMealy blue sageAgarita
A planted channel of rocks and flowering perennials that carries stormwater

Crestview · Rain garden and dry creek · 2025

A backyard that stopped washing into the alley.

BeforeTwo downspouts cut a gully across the yard and carried mulch out to the street.
NowA stone dry creek feeds a 14-inch-deep rain garden that drains within a day.
2downspouts captured
24 hrto drain after a storm
0bags of mulch washed out since
Inland sea oatsTurk's capPigeonberryAmerican beautyberry
A dry garden of agaves, grasses and evergreen shrubs along a gravel path

Dripping Springs · Hill Country xeriscape · 2023

A rocky lot that never needed a lawn.

BeforeThin sod on 4 inches of soil over limestone, brown by every July.
NowGravel paths, local limestone and drought-proof natives that stay green-gray all summer.
3summers with no irrigation
22species planted
0plants lost to drought since install
Twistleaf yuccaCenizoBlackfoot daisyRed yuccaLindheimer's muhly
Rosa walked the yard with us for an hour and found the three spots where water pooled. Two years later those are the best parts of the garden.
Dana and Chris L., Crestview

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