What you decide, what you receive, and when we plant. The walk is within ten days. The master plan takes four to six weeks.
Site walk and soil tests
We walk the acres you actually own, not the listing. Caliche, slope, cedar, deer sign, and where the water already goes in a storm.
| Duration | Walk within 10 days. Soil notes back in about 2 weeks. |
|---|---|
| You decide | Which acres are in the first phase, and what stays: oaks, the tank, the drive. |
| You receive | A marked walk sheet and a short list of what the ground will not do. |
Master plan
The drawing. Court, water, meadow, and the year-ten line, so a later season still fits.
| Duration | 4–6 weeks after the soil tests. |
|---|---|
| You decide | Where the court, the water, and the meadow sit. |
| You receive | The plan, the plant list, and a fee of $14,000–$40,000. One revision is in that fee. |
Phasing and pricing
The plan split into seasons you can pay for. Partner lenders exist for the larger builds. No lender is named, and we take no fee for an introduction.
| Duration | 2–3 weeks after you accept the plan. |
|---|---|
| You decide | Which season is first, and the budget band. |
| You receive | A phased budget. Built work is usually $90,000–$650,000 over one to three seasons. |
Build
Hardscape in the dry months. Seed and plants after the heat breaks, October into November, unless a burn ban stops the week.
| Duration | One to three seasons. |
|---|---|
| You decide | Substitutions if a stone or a plant is short that month. |
| You receive | Terraces, the court, establishment drip, and the planting. Not a lawn. |
Stewardship
The calendar you can hand to whoever is on the place when you are not. Two visits a year through year two, then the written years.
| Duration | Years 1–10. Visits through year two. |
|---|---|
| You decide | When the deer fence comes down. Usually the spring of year two. |
| You receive | The calendar, the visits, and replacement of failed plants through year two. |
Year 5
Live oaks shade the west wall.
Watering is down to once a month. The meadow has closed between the walls.
Dripping Springs, Wimberley, Spicewood, Driftwood, Johnson City, Fredericksburg.
Built work usually lands between $90,000 and $650,000, phased over one to three seasons. We plant in fall, when the heat has broken and the roots have a chance before August.
Phased budgets, and partner lenders for larger builds. No lender is named, and we take no fee for an introduction. The master plan is the first piece, from $14,000 to $40,000, and the phases are drawn against it.
From the properties
The walk took a morning. They marked what the flash flood does and we stopped arguing about the low corner.
Phasing meant we could build the terraces one dry season and plant the next fall, without redrawing the hill.
Year two they replaced three cedar elms and took the fence down in April. The calendar said April.