A native-led landscape studio in San Antonio. Landscapes that provide water, shade, food, and refuge — and thrive across decades of Texas heat. We read the slope, draw the drainage, choose the materials. Drop your address for a free site assessment.
Three residential dry-creek bioswales in Alamo Heights. We read the slope before we draw the plan. Limestone armors the channel. Muhly grass and lindheimer catch the October light. Persimmon and prickly pear hold the food line. Twenty thousand gallons absorbed per storm — provision in the most ancient sense, dressed in restraint.
In partnership with the San Antonio Housing Authority. A central catchment feeds an aqueduct that distributes water across acreage of native canopy, perennial planting, and gathering nodes. The whole site graded so every drop lands where it should. At dusk: path lighting up, salvia and lantana humming with bees and hummingbirds, limestone retainers aging into the soil. Water provided. Shade earned. Ecology compounding.
Lawn out. Juniper out. Soil rebuilt with structural compost. Stone-retained planters frame a metal-roofed mid-century home, graded so morning rain feeds the beds, not the foundation. Salvia, lavender, ornamental grasses, agave, and prickly pear hold morning light and evening scent. A low-voltage walkway threads the entry. Irrigation dropped roughly seventy percent. Year-round bloom and texture. A yard that gets more refined every season, not more tired.