Services
Every service starts with a one-hour site walk. Costs below are typical ranges for Austin yards, installed, with two years of care.
01 · Lawn to meadow
We remove St. Augustine or Bermuda without herbicide, by sheet mulching or sod cutting, then plant native grasses and seed a wildflower mix. Year one looks like a young garden. By year two it reads as a meadow.
02 · Pollinator and habitat gardens
We plan bloom by month so bees and butterflies always find food, add milkweed for monarchs, and leave seed heads and stems standing for winter birds and nesting bees.
03 · Rain gardens and dry creeks
Downspouts and slopes that wash out mulch and soil get a shallow rain garden or a stone dry creek. Water that used to run to the street waters your plants instead.
04 · Hill Country xeriscapes
For west-facing beds, rocky lots and hot strips by the driveway. We use local limestone, decomposed granite and plants that want almost no water once established.
Austin Water offers landscape rebates when you replace lawn with approved plants. We take the before photos, size the area and prepare the application, so you only sign it.
Questions
Not if it is designed. We use clean edges, paths and a mown border so the planting reads as intentional, and we choose plants that stay tidy near the street.
Texas law limits how HOAs can restrict water-conserving landscapes, but most still review plans. We prepare a drawing and plant list for your HOA and attend the review if you want us there.
Yes, for the first summer. We set temporary drip or a watering schedule while roots establish, then step it down. After that, most of our plants live on rainfall except in long droughts.
Deer pressure varies a lot by street. We ask about it at the site walk, plan around it, and replace anything they flatten during the care period.
Fall. Cool weather and fall rain give roots months to grow before July heat. Wildflower seed also needs to go down in fall to bloom in spring.
Most yards mix two or three. The site walk sorts it out in an hour.