Guides
Plant and paver guides for Central Texas
We don't sell plants or pavers. These guides cover how to grow and install them, and the soil, mulch, sand and base we can deliver for the job.
Patios and walkways
Flagstone patios and walkways: base and installation guide
Flagstone is flat, split stone used for patios, walkways and stepping stones. A good base underneath is what keeps it level.
Patio pavers: base, sand and installation guide
Concrete and stone pavers make durable patios and walkways. Most failures come from the base, not the pavers.
Building a concrete block wall: base and sand guide
A concrete block wall lasts when the footing and base are right. Most of what we deliver is what's underneath and around the block.
Plants
Lamb's ear plant: growing guide for Central Texas
Lamb's ear (Stachys byzantina) is a low, silver-leaved groundcover grown for its soft, fuzzy foliage.
Texas sage: planting and care guide
Texas sage (Leucophyllum frutescens), also called cenizo, is a native evergreen shrub with gray foliage and purple blooms, often after rain.
Vitex tree: planting guide for Central Texas
Vitex (Vitex agnus-castus), or chaste tree, is a fast-growing small tree or large shrub with spikes of lavender-blue summer flowers.
Abelia shrub: growing guide
Glossy abelia and its varieties are compact, flowering shrubs used for hedges and foundation plantings.
Dappled willow: growing guide
Dappled willow (Salix integra 'Hakuro Nishiki') is a shrub grown for its pink, white and green variegated leaves.
Forsythia bush: planting guide
Forsythia is a deciduous shrub known for bright yellow flowers in late winter or early spring.
SunPatiens: planting and care guide
SunPatiens are a hybrid impatiens bred to handle more sun than traditional impatiens, used as bedding and container color.
Dusty miller plant: growing guide
Dusty miller (Jacobaea maritima) is grown for its silvery, lacy foliage, often as edging or contrast in mixed beds.
Dwarf yaupon holly: planting guide
Dwarf yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria dwarf forms) is a Texas native evergreen shrub that stays low and rounded, often used in place of boxwood.
Peggy Martin climbing rose: planting guide
The Peggy Martin rose is a vigorous, thornless-to-nearly-thornless climbing rose with pink clusters of flowers, known for surviving Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters.
Japanese boxwood and Green Velvet boxwood planting guide
Japanese boxwood and hybrids like Green Velvet are evergreen shrubs used for low hedges, borders and formal shapes.
Verbena plant: growing guide
Verbena is a heat-loving flowering plant; several types, including native species, are grown across Texas as groundcover and bedding color.
Caladium plant: growing guide
Caladiums are grown from tubers for their colorful, heart-shaped leaves and brighten shady beds in summer.
Irish moss: planting guide
Irish moss (Sagina subulata) is a low, cushion-forming groundcover often planted between stepping stones.
Planting a new tree in Central Texas: soil, mulch and watering guide
A new tree in Central Texas clay or thin limestone soil needs a wide hole, backfill that drains, and a mulch ring — not deep planting.