Fig, pomegranate, low-chill peach, persimmon. Blackberry, mulberry, elderberry. Rosemary, sage, oregano. Hill Country edibles integrated into the design — not stashed in a corner garden.
An edible landscape isn't a vegetable garden moved to the front yard. It's a designed landscape where most of the plants happen to feed you.
Conventional landscaping uses 12 ornamental plants. Edible landscape uses 12 different ones — most of which also produce food, often through the worst of summer when nothing else in the garden is interesting. A mature fig tree gives shade, structure, fall color, and 40 pounds of fruit. An Indian hawthorn does none of those things.
Noon's edible landscape work integrates fruit trees, berry shrubs, perennial herbs, edible groundcovers, and vines into a landscape that reads as intentional design first and edible bonus second. The neighbors won't realize half your yard is food until you start handing them figs in July.
Hill Country zones (8b-9a) limit your edible palette compared to California. But what does grow here, grows well — often better than where you'd expect.
We don't recommend things that struggle here: apples (too low chill hours unless you find the right variety), pears (fire blight risk), most blueberries (pH too high), most stone fruit beyond peach. Plant what wants to grow here.
Edible landscape pricing follows tree count + scale. Most clients add 3-8 fruit trees plus a perennial herb + berry layer per zone.
Beauty and function are not separate categories in ecological work. A fig tree gives you shade in July (when you need it), gold leaves in November (when the yard needs color), and 40 pounds of figs in June and August (when the grocery store sells them for $6/lb).
An ornamental landscape costs $1,500-$3,000 per year to maintain. An edible landscape costs the same (sometimes less — fruit trees need less than ornamental shrubs once established) but pays you back: $200-$2,000 worth of fruit per year, plus the herbs, plus the berries.
The math isn't really the point. The point is that you walk outside and eat something off your own property — and somehow the conventional landscape suddenly looks like a waste.
Start free. See your property in 3D before you spend a dollar on the build. Then build it for a number you can see coming.
We come read your property — soil, water, light, the lay of the land — and sketch a direction. Credited in full, no obligation.
A drone-LiDAR scan and a measured 3D design — exactly where the water flows, drawn to the inch. The $300 comes off your build.
Curbside bioswales from $300 a linear meter, plus fountains, native landscapes, and water systems — built by the same hands. No surprise numbers.
Site Read + microclimate map + edible plant palette + planting plan. Written summary in 48 hrs. Free.
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