Hunters Crossing
We design and build many bespoke landscapes to fit the uniqueness and needs of each of our clients. Three of our clients are next door to each other. Each of the projects reflects our commitment to blending functionality with beauty, tailored to our clients’ individual visions and design styles.
THE MOODY: Fresh back from years abroad, this couple was ready to settle down in their dream home bought before they set sail. Our job description was to luxuriate in the style of Singapore Botanic Gardens with Texas native plants and to fix a serious erosion problem. We had to talk the client into cutting the size of the lawn back and replace the unpleasant Augustine with zoysia (another zoysia convert). Here are some of the results.
Client: Moody | Year: 2023
Pool equipments and general utility zone, all tucked away with easy access.
Dry river bed drainage with plantings and lush dense native privacy screens.
80 lb retaining wall blocks for an elevation erosion control.
Lighting up the dry river bed path.
The 80 pound blocks have nice capstone which helps to make them esteclly acceptable.
Before
THE CLARK: When your clients family are full of Horticulturists and their dad is the head of the Horticulture Department at your alma mater…(gig em Aggies), the pressure is on to bring it on!
We were so flattered to have been selected for this work. Besides the Clarks being total Aggies and needing the required maroon and white thematic colored flowering plants as often as we could, we also infused the place with the coolest Native plants we could get our hands on. The challenge of then bringing something very original to the design was brought in the pancake-style flagstone work we did using multiple exaggerated layers of stone cut to fit into cool shapes for the beds. Cramoisi Rose and Ducher and Belinda’s Dream are featured. We’ve been working with this client for ten years, maintaining and cultivating the gardens and lawns for this family.
Nothing says suburban banality like dead queen palms and freaking boxwoods; it’s easy to fix, though.
The Fringe Tree (Chionanthus virginicus) and a raised rose bed are an excellent "anti-banality" pairing. They provide a sophisticated, layered look that thrives in the same conditions.
We generally don’t use many crape myrtles in our landscapes because they are so typical and overused. Regular, boring landscapers put in just all the varieties, not paying attention to the ones that like our climate, and then we get super-ugly crapes. But that’s not this crape myrtle. This is the 'Fantasy' crape. It’s the trifecta: fragrant, repeat-blooming with curly "camo" bark, and disease-resistant (not prone to black sooty mold or other such nonsense). And it has brilliant fall colors!! I guess that makes it a quadfecta. Anyway, it’s a gorgeous selection for a crape myrtle.
This bed is a flapjack stack in a heart shape. But it’s a secret.
Terracing raised beds down a slope in the front yard keeps that line extending from the foundation. Keeping things level and not curved with the existing land... you have to have an eye for this; otherwise, it looks dumb and not super cool like this. :)
The stones are 20 inches wide; that's how we could use such thin slabs for the stacked effect.
Ducher China hybrid tea antique French rose—yes, all that. It’s a weirdo, but it has been growing in Texas for a couple hundred years and in France for over four hundred. It’s fragrant, it’s beautiful, it’s virtually disease-resistant, and I LOVE THIS ROSE!
Belindas Dream
BEFORE