A booking service for Central Texas yards, run by people who know what dies in August
Austin is a million people living under a canopy of protected oaks, on clay or limestone, watered on an assigned day. The yards that thrive here are the ones planned for that. This site exists to connect homeowners with crews who plan that way.
Austin Landscaping Tech is a locally run booking service for landscaping work across Austin and the towns around it: Round Rock, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Pflugerville, Leander, Dripping Springs, Kyle, Buda, Lakeway, Bee Cave and Hutto. You call or send the form at any hour, your details are taken, and an independent landscaping contractor from the area calls back to set up a walk-through. The contractor does the work; this site arranges it and sets the terms on which it is arranged.
Four things every job is built on
The walk-through comes first
Nobody quotes a yard from a satellite photo. Someone stands in it, reads the sun, the soil, the slope, the trees and the sprinklers, and only then writes a number. Estimates are free and itemized.
Plants and grass that belong here
Bermuda and Zoysia in the sun, St. Augustine under the oaks, natives in the beds, drip where the rules allow. The palette that came through the 2021 and 2023 freezes and the droughts between them, not the palette in a national catalog.
The rules are known, not discovered
The city's tree ordinance at 19 and 24 inches, the four-foot wall rule, Austin Water's schedule, the TCEQ irrigator licence, the TDA applicator licence, the HOA's architectural review. Each is checked before work is quoted, because finding out afterward is expensive.
The right month
Sod and trees in the cool season, oaks pruned in the oak-wilt window, pre-emergent in February and September, stone work before the heat. The estimate names the month as well as the price.
Who does the work, and what they hold
The crews are independent contractors based in Central Texas. Texas has no general landscaping licence. Irrigation work requires a TCEQ Licensed Irrigator and commercial pesticide or herbicide application requires a Texas Department of Agriculture applicator licence; the contractor performing that work holds the licence it requires, and you can ask for the number. This website makes no licence or insurance claim on anyone's behalf. The referral disclosure explains how the arrangement works and how the contractors pay for the booking.