View entering the front drive gate along the Tejas black gravel driveway, surrounded by Zoysia lawn and a multitude of evergreen textures below the large native tree canopies.

Planting bed along the entry drive with a mixture of variegated pittosporum, holly fern, and mondo grass with blooming hydrangea in the back ground for a spot of beautiful spring and summer color.

Before picture of the back of the driveway near the garage on-looking three key large Live Oaks which create immense shade in the back yard.

After view from back of the driveway seeing the same three large Live Oaks from the before photo, with new lead gravel walkway into the backyard surrounded by evergreen garden plantings.

View from the back of the lawn looking towards the new home, with the same three large Live Oaks in the foreground, showing the size and scale of this large estate garden planting. Lush Zoysia lawns were important to this client so that their grandkids would have lots of room to run and play about. Plants inside the bed were a mixture of variegated pittosporum, azaleas, giant Liriope, multiple varieties of fern, hydrangea, mondo grass, and ornamental trees.

View from garage gravel walkway towards the main center stone breezeway with large shade tolerant bedding plants aligning both sides of this walk.

View from the house down the main breezeway towards the main residence, showing a large Live Oak surrounded by river cobble as the main focal feature to this path. Azaleas, fern and mondo grass line the bed on the left, while Zoysia lawn aligns the path on the right. The homeowner desired this walkway to be solid enough for easy access while not disturbing any native tree root structures with concrete and re-bar. We constructed this walkway from Pennsylvania bluestone set to a random rectangle pattern on a crushed sand and concrete sub-base, so as to allow for future movement of tree roots.

Before photo from back corner on-looking the new guest house showing the multitude of large native Pecan and Live Oak trees.

After photo showing the same angle with seasonal plantings in the foreground, followed by Zoysia lawn, fire pit area and shade tolerant bedding plants of Azalea, fern, aspidistra, and hydrangea all under the canopies of the existing large shade trees throughout this estate.

View from the pool towards the fire pit and seating area showing the walkways leading to and from this fire pit, along with other outdoor patio and entertaining spaces.

View as you enter into the backyard of the guest house, on-looking the main residence in the background, screened by large bedding spaces surrounding lush turf and outdoor patios.

View as you walk from one patio towards the fire pit with Nelly R. Stevens creating a living screen along the neighbors fence and a mixture of Azaleas, ferns, turks cap, daylily, and giant Liriope.

View leading from the fire pit area down the Tejas black gravel pathway, towards the main breezeway and across the great lawn created for young children to play on.

View looking through the large bed space with Azaleas, fern, giant Liriope, hydrangea, mondo grass, and ornamental trees like Japanese Maple and Oklahoma Redbud, creating a variation of evergreens, height, and textures so as to continually give visual interest during all of our seasons.

View leading from the main residence towards the guest house and garage along the main Pennsylvania bluestone breezeway. Showing Zoysia lawns and lush shade tolerant bedding spaces.

Design Plans