One company from the drawing to the last plant

From around $3,000 for a basic package to $200,000 and up for estate work. Most homeowners invest $15,000 to $40,000 for comprehensive front and back landscaping. A basic package of foundation planting and beds runs $3,000 to $8,000; a mid-range scheme with custom design, quality planting and some hardscape is $10,000 to $30,000; premium work with integrated hardscape, lighting and water features runs $30,000 to $75,000 and up.

Autumn and early spring are ideal for planting — soil is warm, air temperatures are moderate, and roots establish before the next stress period. October through March is the strongest planting window here. Hardscape, drainage and grading can be done year-round, though saturated clay stops earthwork. Summer installation works with attentive watering but carries more risk and more establishment cost, and we will say so rather than take the booking silently.

Design takes three to six weeks, plus two to six more if an HOA or ARC submission is required. Construction depends on scope: a planting refresh is a few days, a mid-range scheme with hardscape and irrigation two to four weeks, and a full property transformation six to twelve weeks or longer. Weather is the main variable — saturated Beaumont clay stops grading and hardscape work entirely.

Yes, as part of the project. Much of Montgomery County is covenanted, and The Woodlands requires a Development Standards Committee submission with drawings in a specific format plus ARC approval before work begins. We read your village covenants before designing, prepare the submission in the format the committee expects, and build the review period into the schedule. A submission that is right first time avoids a resubmission cycle that can cost a planting season.

Species that handle Beaumont clay, zone 9a summer heat and a wet spring. Live oak, yaupon and dwarf yaupon, Texas sage, gulf muhly and other ornamental grasses, salvias and native perennials all perform reliably. The genuine skill is matching each plant to the light and drainage of its specific bed — the same species can thrive on one side of a house and struggle on the other, and that is what a site-specific design is for.

Yes. We run weekly and bi-weekly maintenance routes with dedicated crews, so the same team that knows the property services it. It works particularly well after an installation, because the crew knows what was planted, where the irrigation runs, and what the beds are supposed to look like. Establishment care in the first year is where new planting is won or lost, and it is easier when one company owns both halves.

Yes, and for larger schemes it is often the sensible route. We draw the master plan once, then build it in stages you can budget for year by year. The important discipline is designing the phases so each one looks finished on its own rather than leaving the property visibly mid-project — and sequencing them so that later phases do not require reopening earlier work.

Yes, and doing them within the same project is the main reason to use one contractor. Irrigation sleeves and lighting conduit go in while the ground is already open, which costs almost nothing at that stage and a great deal once paving and turf are finished. Both are designed with the planting rather than fitted around it, so zones match water needs and fixtures light what the design intended.

We design around them wherever it is realistic, because mature pines and oaks are most of what makes a Woodlands property look the way it does. That means respecting critical root zones when excavating, keeping hardscape edges clear of root plates, and sometimes working under an arborist plan. What we will not do is promise a tree survives when the design puts a foundation through its roots — in that case the honest options are moving the element or removing the tree.

Establishment, and it is the period that decides whether the scheme succeeds. New planting needs deep infrequent watering that tapers across the first twelve months, mulch maintained at depth, and beds kept weeded until the planting closes. Expect some plant losses — a small percentage is normal even with good stock and good planting — and expect the beds to look deliberately open, because they are spaced for what the plants become rather than for handover day.

Yes — HOA common areas, office parks, retail frontages and multi-family properties, both installation and ongoing maintenance. Commercial projects carry different requirements around scheduling, access, appearance standards and often phased work around occupied buildings, and those go into the contract explicitly rather than being assumed. The design and construction discipline is the same.

Often, but we will survey what is already in the ground first. Base preparation and drainage are the two things that decide whether existing work is worth building on, and both are invisible once the surface is down. We would rather spend an hour opening a small area to check than inherit a base that fails in year two with our name on the finished job.