Magnolia, TX Landscaping and Lawn Service

From around $5,000 for basic work up to $150,000 and beyond for large acreage projects. Most Magnolia homeowners invest $15,000 to $50,000 for comprehensive landscaping. Properties on multiple acres in areas like High Meadow Ranch and Sendera Ranch often require more, because lot size and site preparation drive the cost far more than the choice of materials does. The estimate is written after a site walk and is free.

Yes, and it is a specialty rather than a sideline. Many Magnolia properties sit on one to ten acres or more, and they need a different approach from a subdivision lot: land clearing, pasture-to-lawn conversion, long driveway landscaping, entry monuments and gates, and defining outdoor living areas within a much larger property. We have the equipment for projects at that scale, and access is checked at quoting so the machinery is priced rather than improvised.

Property-scale solutions rather than lot-scale ones. Magnolia mixes clay and sandy soil across rolling terrain, so we use swales to direct flow, culvert pipes at driveway crossings sized to the catchment, retention areas where water needs holding, and grading across the whole property. Structures near the house are then sized for what actually reaches them. Where there are stock tanks or natural low areas, those become part of the design rather than obstacles to it.

Yes, and selectively. The mistake we are most often called to remediate is a property cleared flat by a mulcher, which is fast and cheap and removes in a day the mature trees that made the land worth buying. We mark the keepers first, then take out underbrush, cedar and yaupon, do strategic tree removal and stump grinding, and prepare the site. The property ends up usable with its character intact.

Species that handle zone 9a heat and whichever soil you actually have — Magnolia genuinely varies between clay and sandy ground, sometimes on the same tract. On either soil the dependable list is short: live oak for canopy, wax myrtle and yaupon for screening, dwarf yaupon holly for structure, Texas sage and gulf muhly for color and movement, and native perennials to fill between. We assess soil at more than one point before drawing a plant list, because on acreage a single palette will succeed in half the beds and struggle in the rest.

Design takes three to six weeks. Construction depends heavily on whether clearing and site preparation are involved: a planting and hardscape plan around the house is two to four weeks, while a project including clearing, drive work and property-scale drainage can run two to three months. Wet ground stops earthwork on acreage even more decisively than in town, because the machinery is heavier and the ground is unimproved.

Yes, and on acreage it is usually the highest-impact work available. The first hundred yards is the arrival sequence, and an entry monument, gate and planted approach change how the whole property reads. The practical half matters too: a crown built into the drive surface so water sheds to both sides, culverts at low crossings, and roadside swales, without which the drive washes out every heavy rain.

Regularly. It involves more than mowing and sodding — pasture ground is usually compacted and uneven, with a seed bank of exactly the species you do not want. We shape and grade the area, break the compaction, improve the soil, then establish turf and irrigate only the converted area. Deciding how much to convert is the important conversation: irrigated lawn is the most demanding surface on any property, and on acreage the sensible answer is usually less than people first want.

It depends where you are. Master-planned communities such as Sendera Ranch and High Meadow Ranch have architectural review requirements, and entry features and gates in particular are usually reviewed. Unrestricted acreage around Dobbin and Todd Mission generally does not. We check what applies to your property before designing, because work that has to be modified after the fact is the most expensive kind.

On the areas that warrant it, which is rarely the whole property. We zone irrigation to the defined landscape near the house, entry planting and any converted lawn, using drip in the beds and spray only where turf genuinely needs it. Trying to irrigate acreage comprehensively is expensive to install, expensive to run and usually unnecessary — native and adapted planting beyond the designed edge does not need it once established.

Yes, and on acreage it is often the sensible route. We draw the master plan once, then build it in stages you can budget for year by year — clearing and drainage first because everything depends on them, then the outdoor rooms near the house, then entry features and the wider planting. Each phase is designed to look finished on its own rather than leaving the property visibly mid-project.

Yes. Magnolia lawn service is built around acreage: mowing sized to the property with the right equipment for an acre or ten, fertilizing the turf people actually walk on rather than every square foot, and pre-emergent applied to soil temperature so crabgrass is prevented rather than chased. On sandy Magnolia ground we water deeper and less often than on clay. Bi-weekly is the usual cadence outside the growing season, weekly inside it.