Our Work — built to last

This estate in Richards already had strong bones when we arrived — a pool house, a pavilion, established brickwork, and generous seasonal color beds throughout. The owner had invested in the hardscape and structure. Our job was to design and install the plantings that would tie everything together and give the property a layered, finished look from every angle.

Around the pool area, we installed holly trees in the island planters for year-round structure and privacy as they mature, along with ornamental shrubs and seasonal color selected to perform through the Texas heat. A Peggy Martin climbing rose was trained on the garage trellis — a detail that adds vertical interest and softens the architecture beautifully as it fills in each season.

The white colonial house at the front received its own treatment — entry plantings, boulder-anchored flower beds packed with seasonal color, and manicured lawn that complement the architecture without competing with it. From the street, the property reads as cared-for and considered at every level.

This stucco-turret estate in Magnolia sits on 15 acres with a waterfront pavilion, wooded grounds, and a 2-acre pond — the kind of long-term landscape relationship New Yards was built for. The scale required a design approach that could handle multiple distinct zones while maintaining a coherent character throughout.

The front of the estate received deep layered planting beds built around the stucco facade, with a carefully designed drainage channel along the approach. That channel manages water after heavy rain while reading as a natural feature rather than a utility element. The moss rock edging, boulders, and bull rock were all selected and placed by hand to sit naturally against the architecture.

Further into the property, the waterfront pavilion sits within lush planted beds framed by mature palms, with manicured lawn running down to the pond's edge. The wooded section features a cedar bridge, flagstone pathways, a stone waterfall, and planting beds that work with the existing tree canopy — shade-tolerant species, naturalistic placement, nothing that looks planted. Tree installations were carried out across the full 15-acre grounds to build long-term structure and shade.