Landscape Design
A scaled plan and 3D render of your yard, with plants, stone and lighting chosen for your soil and sun. You see the finished yard and the fixed price before any work starts.
- 3D landscape design
- Front yard design
- Backyard design
4.9 from 127 Google reviews · New Braunfels & San Antonio
Your Hill Country yard, designed and built by one team.
A fixed price in writing before any deposit, and a 3-year warranty on everything we plant and build.
- 700+yards built since 2013
- Fixed priceitemized, before any deposit
- 3 yearswritten plant + workmanship warranty
- In-housedesigners, masons and crews
Our services
Six kinds of work, one design-build team
Doing every trade in-house means drainage goes in before the patio, conduit goes under the stone, and nobody blames the other company when something doesn’t fit.
Landscaping
Native and adapted plants, trees, sod and beds, installed with amended soil and drip lines. Every planting carries our 3-year plant warranty.
- Xeriscaping
- Sod installation
- Tree and shrub planting
Hardscaping
Flagstone, pavers and limestone set on compacted base by our own masons: patios, walkways, retaining walls, fire pits and outdoor kitchens.
- Patios
- Walkways
- Retaining walls
Outdoor Structures
Cedar and steel pergolas, patio covers, decks, fences and gates, with footings and tie-ins sized for Hill Country wind.
- Pergolas
- Patio covers and shade
- Decks
Irrigation and Drainage
Drip zones, smart controllers and repairs by a licensed irrigator, plus French drains and dry creek beds that move storm water away from your foundation.
- Drip irrigation
- Sprinkler installation and repair
- French drains and dry creek beds
Landscape Lighting
Low-voltage LED lighting for paths, steps, trees and stonework, designed at night on your site and backed by a 3-year fixture warranty.
- Lighting design and installation
- Path and step lighting
- Tree uplighting
Why Pecan Hollow
Designed to grow. Built to last.
Marisol Ortega drew plans and Wade Kessler laid stone. For years they handed projects to each other across two companies, and every handoff lost something. In 2013 they started one company instead: the person who designs your yard walks the site with the crew that builds it.
- One project lead
- A named lead owns your design, schedule and walkthrough, and sends a photo update every Friday.
- Native-first planting
- Cedar elm, Turk's cap, Lindheimer muhly, cenizo: plants sized for Edwards Plateau soil and drought.
- 3-year warranty
- Plants, workmanship and lighting fixtures, in writing. Three times the one-year norm.
- Fixed-price proposals
- Itemized, with a 3D render, before any deposit. We probe for rock and soil on the site walk; anything outside the proposal's scope is quoted in writing before work goes ahead.
Our process
From site walk to warranty
Step 1: Site walk
Free, 45 minutes, on your property with a designer. We look at sun, soil, slope and drainage, probe for rock, and talk through what you want and what it might cost.
Step 2: Design and fixed price
A scaled plan, a 3D render and an itemized proposal with a fixed price, before any deposit. One round of revisions included.
Step 3: Build with one lead
One named project lead runs your job start to finish, with our own masons and crews and a photo update every Friday.
Step 4: Walkthrough and warranty
We walk the finished yard with you, set the irrigation and lights, and hand over a written 3-year plant and workmanship warranty.
Featured projects
Outdoor rooms built to last
Every project here was designed and built by our own crews, with the real budget and build time.
See the portfolio
Materials & craft
What we build with, and why it lasts here
A Hill Country yard is only as good as what it’s made of. Thin soil over limestone, clay that swells and shrinks, and long dry summers punish shortcuts.
Texas cream limestone
Cut and chopped limestone from Hill Country quarries for walls, steps and seat walls. Every wall sits on a gravel footing with a perforated drain behind it, so clay that swells in May doesn't push it out of plumb by August.
Buff flagstone
Our default patio stone: cool underfoot, tight joints, and set on at least 4 inches of compacted crushed limestone. Dry-laid with decomposed granite for a looser look, or mortared on a slab under furniture.
Western red cedar and steel
Pergolas, patio covers and fences in rough-sawn cedar on concrete footings, with black steel brackets and ties sized for Hill Country wind. Sealed at install and again at your first-year visit.
Native and adapted plants
At least 70% of every planting plan: cedar elm, Turk's cap, cenizo, autumn sage, Lindheimer muhly, inland sea oats. They take caliche, clay, deer and a 100-degree August, which is why we can warranty them for three years.
Hear from our clients
Loved by Hill Country homeowners
Our backyard was a mud slide. Pecan Hollow turned it into two terraces with a patio and pergola, and the price we signed was the price we paid. Danny sent a photo update every Friday. The walls haven't moved an inch through two wet springs.
Laura M. · Boerne · Google review We fought the grass under our live oaks for ten years. Marisol showed us a 3D model of a shade garden instead, and that's what we got. The deer leave it alone, and the oaks lit up at night are the best thing about the house.
Ellen K. · Fair Oaks Ranch · Google review Water used to stand against our house for days. They regraded and put in a French drain, and after four inches of rain the yard was dry the next morning. New grass, beds around the pecans and a fence that keeps our dogs home.
Rachel D. · Seguin · Google review
Rated 4.9 from 127 Google reviews.
FAQ
Common questions
How much does a landscaping project cost?
Most of our design-build projects land between $25,000 and $250,000. A native front yard is often $25,000 to $40,000; a backyard with a patio, pergola and planting is often $60,000 to $120,000. Smaller projects, like new sod or a bed refresh, start at about $3,000. You get an itemized fixed price with a 3D render before any deposit. We take repair calls of any size too, such as a broken sprinkler head or a dark lighting zone; the minimum service call is $150.
What does the 3-year warranty cover?
Plants we install, our workmanship on stone, structures and irrigation, and lighting fixtures, for three years from your walkthrough. If a plant dies while the irrigation runs to our schedule, we replace it. Deer, freezes beyond a plant's hardiness and outside damage aren't covered.
How soon can you start?
Site walks are usually within a week or two. Design takes two to three weeks. Builds typically start four to eight weeks after you sign, sooner for small jobs and later in spring, our busiest season. HOA review and permits can add time, and we plan for both.
Do you subcontract the work?
No. Our own designers, masons and crews do the work, led by one project lead. We bring in licensed specialists only for things the law requires, such as electrical connections, gas lines and engineering for tall walls, and we coordinate them for you.
Free · 45 minutes · no obligation
Start with a free site walk
Forty-five minutes on your property with a designer. You'll leave with honest numbers and a clear next step. A fixed-price proposal with a 3D render follows within two weeks.