Commercial Landscape Design & Installation

Most commercial landscapes in this area were designed once, planted, and then quietly fought against for the next fifteen years. The plant list ignored how much sun the west side actually gets. Beds were cut too narrow for anything to fill in. Somebody put a plant that hates wet feet in the low corner of the parking lot, and it has been replaced four times since.

Design work is where those costs either get built in or designed out. What goes in the ground on install day sets your maintenance bill for a decade.

What we design and install

Entry and monument plantings. This is the highest-return spot on almost any commercial property, because it’s the one part every visitor looks directly at.

Full property renovations, where the existing landscape has aged past the point that maintenance can fix it. Overgrown shrubs that have swallowed the windows, beds with more mulch than plant, turf that lost the fight to shade years ago.

Hardscape. Walkways, borders, seat walls, and the drainage that keeps all of it from lifting.

Replanting after damage. Freezes, drought stress, and storm loss all leave properties with gaps that a maintenance crew isn’t equipped to close.

Grading and drainage corrections where water is the actual problem. Houston-area properties sit on heavy clay, and a bed that stays wet will kill whatever you plant in it no matter how good the plant list is.

Designed for what this soil and climate do

Gulf Coast conditions are specific and unforgiving. Heavy clay that holds water in spring and cracks in August. Heat that runs from May into October. Hard freezes that arrive maybe once every few years and take out anything marginal when they do, which is exactly what happened in February 2021 across the whole region.

A plant list copied from a national spec sheet doesn’t survive that. We build lists around what has held up on properties we maintain in this area, which means we’re specifying from things we’ve watched through several summers rather than from a catalog.

The other half of it is maintenance cost. A design that needs constant intervention to look right is a design that will look wrong most of the time, because the budget to maintain it never materializes. We’d rather put in something that looks good with the care your property is actually going to get.

How a project runs

We start by walking the property with you and getting clear on what’s driving the project. A lease renewal, a board that wants the entry fixed, a tenant complaint, a property that’s about to go on the market. Those lead to different designs.

You get a plan and a price before any work is scheduled. Installation is done by our own crews, and if we’re already maintaining the property the same people who put it in are the ones caring for it afterward.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you charge for design? Design fees depend on the scope. A refresh of an entry bed is a different exercise from a full property renovation, and we’ll tell you which one you’re looking at after we walk it.

Can you work from plans an architect already drew? Yes. If you’ve got a set of drawings, we can price and install from them. We’ll also say something if we think a specified plant is going to struggle in the spot it’s drawn.

How long does an install take? It depends on size and on what’s coming out before anything goes in. Removal and prep on a neglected property often take longer than the planting does. We give you a schedule with the proposal.

Will you maintain what you install? If you want us to, yes, and it’s the arrangement we prefer. A new landscape is most vulnerable in its first year, and a crew that knows what went in and why will treat it differently.

What’s the best time of year to plant here? Fall and late winter are easiest on new plantings, because roots get established before the summer heat arrives. Summer installs are possible and get watered more aggressively.