Austin landscaping built for Hill Country soil and 100° summers. Native plants, real drainage, and work that holds up past the first season.
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Austin's soil is shallow and the heat is brutal. Most landscapers plant what looks good for one season. We plant what's still alive in three.
James Bell · Founder · GreenLeaf Landscaping · 2015
We don't plant Bradford pears or Indian hawthorn or anything else that looks great in the nursery and dies in July. This is the working list — drought-rated, deer-resistant where it matters, and proven on Hill Country soil.
Sophora secundiflora
Evergreen, slow grower, grape-soda flowers in March. Specimen tree for tough spots.
Mahonia trifoliolata
Evergreen, spiky, deer-proof. Yellow flowers, red berries the birds love.
Autumn sage
Pink, red, white. Hummingbird magnet from spring through first frost.
Melampodium leucanthum
Low groundcover, white flowers all summer. Wants poor soil and full sun.
Yucca rupicola / pallida
Architectural, evergreen. Tall flower spikes in late spring. Zero water once set.
Lantana urticoides
Heat-loving, butterfly forage. The native species is the one you want — not the box-store hybrids.
Salvia rosmarinus
Evergreen herb, doubles as low hedging. Bees love it. Hates wet feet.
Muhlenbergia capillaris
Pink cloud in October — the reason your neighbor stops to ask what it is.
Best window for native installs — roots establish before heat. Mulch refresh, oak wilt-safe pruning, irrigation tune-up.
Deep watering only — no light daily sips. Hardscape installs, drainage work. We don't plant new beds in July.
The other good window for installs. Wildflower seeding, tree planting, leaf cleanup, irrigation winterizing.
Hard prunes on dormant plants, oak wilt-safe season, hardscape projects, freeze recovery after big storms.
Every yard's different. Soil, slope, access, what you already have on the ground — it all moves the number. Here's the working range for most jobs we run.
Worked four years on bigger crews around Austin before I went on my own. Did it because I was tired of pulling out plants we'd installed eighteen months earlier — stuff that should never have been put in Texas soil to begin with.
Crew of five now. We do design, install, drainage, hardscape, and maintenance plans for clients who want to keep what we put in. Native-first, but I'll tell you straight when a non-native makes sense.
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