(940) 779-4001

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Every project photographed here was designed, built and planted by our own crews.

Every photograph on this page is a property our crews designed, built and planted. No stock, no subcontracted installs, no renderings.

Most of it is ranch and lakefront work in the eight counties around the Graford yard — entrances and drives, native stone terracing and walls, xeriscape beds that survive a Palo Pinto summer, outdoor living areas, synthetic turf where grass will never hold, and low-voltage lighting placed after dark because that is when it gets judged.

The full list of what we do is on the services page — ten trades, one crew.

Seen something you want on your own place? Tell us about the property or call the yard on (940) 779-4001.

The whole property from the air: turf, xeriscape beds, a paved terrace and a preserved oak motteRanch landscaping
Stone terracing, a river-rock dry creek and low-voltage lighting, shot after dark because that is when lighting is judgedLandscape lighting
Flagstone terrace and native stone wall, with a beaked yucca uplit at twilightHardscape & stone work
A paved terrace edged with xeriscape beds under mature live oaksOutdoor living
Xeriscape island bed with native boulders and a recirculating water featureXeriscape
A ranch drive with stone-edged gravel beds, uplit trees and agaveLandscape installation
Synthetic turf lawn with a clean paved edge, opening to the hillside viewSynthetic turf
Turf lawn and a stone waterfall feature beside the outdoor living areaOutdoor living
A dry creek sized to carry the whole slope to the lake. On a lakefront lawn the water is going there anyway — this decides the routeDrainage
Three tiers of limestone holding a slope that was unusable before, each terrace planted to what will take the heat coming off the stoneLandscape installation
Rows of mature shade trees in their boxes, waiting. Stock held this way keeps its whole root system, which is why one can go in outside the dormant windowTree installation
The person is the scale. A tree this size is not something you plant and wait for — it is craned in and it is a tree the day it landsTree installation
Setting the ball. The flare sits proud of the finished grade and the hole is wider than it is deep — bury either and you have planted a tree that dies in year threeTree installation
A putting green that needs mowing never and holds a line in August — set into decomposed granite with the native brush left where it stoodOutdoor living
Grass this even to the fence line in a Texas summer is a system doing its job quietly — zoned to the ground it is on, not to a templateIrrigation systems
Twin mainlines going in across pasture. The curve is deliberate — a pressure main follows the ground rather than the fence line, and a run forced straight is a run that fights itselfIrrigation systems
Our own crew joining the mainline — the shirts in this photograph are ours. Every coupling is solvent-welded in the trench, because the one that leaks is the one nobody can reach laterIrrigation systems
What the system is for. Grass this even on a lake slope in August is a zoning decision rather than a watering habitIrrigation systems
New sod on its establishment schedule. Fresh sod wants short frequent cycles for a fortnight and then weaning — the opposite of what the same zone needs in year twoIrrigation systems
The same channel in the rain, doing the job. A drainage system can only honestly be judged while it is wetDrainage
River-rock beds and a stepping-stone lawn at dusk, with the drive graded to shed away from the houseLandscape installation
A curved limestone wall holding a gravel xeriscape bed — the low-water answer on the driest end of the territoryXeriscape
A boulder water feature crossed by flagstone, on an acreage property with the barn and equipment yard behindWater features
Flagstone and dry-stacked limestone worked into the outcrop rather than against it — on this lake the rock is inches downHardscape & stone work
Dry-stacked limestone terracing and river-rock beds carrying a slope up to the entryHardscape & stone work
A boulder dry creek carrying runoff down a lakefront lawn — on this shoreline every rain moves material toward the water unless it is interceptedDrainage
Mature pecans uplit after dark. Trees this size cannot be bought, only keptLandscape lighting
A curved turf lawn against black rock and decomposed granite beds — a low-water front that still reads as greenSynthetic turf
An entrance wall and tiered fountain lit after dark, which is the only time lighting can honestly be judgedLandscape lighting
Turf meeting a paved edge, cut to a clean curveSynthetic turf
A boulder island bed set in decomposed granite with a black rock mulch ringXeriscape
Native boulders stacked and planted, not scatteredWater features
Mid-install: the grade and the beds go in before anything decorativeLandscape installation
Specimens staged and the layout painted before a single plant goes inLandscape installation
Ranch landscape entranceRanch landscaping
The office and retail counter at the glasshouse door
Stock laid out along the yard drive
Potted stock and material staged in the supply yard
Autumn at the roadside — the retail nursery sign behind
Seasonal display under the canopy
Cactus and succulents under glassXeriscape
The main aisle, benched either side
A display bed planted the way it would go in your groundXeriscape
Whale's tongue agave, held on siteXeriscape
Agave blocked up outside the hoop house
Inside the hoop house
Grasses and perennials under shade
The long shade house over native stock
Rows under shade, hoop house beyond
Boxed specimen trees, ready to go outTree installation
Shade trees staged across the yardTree installation
What leaves the yard — loaded and readyTree installation
Bulk material bays — stone, gravel, sandHardscape & stone work
Dry-stacked limestone holding the slopeHardscape & stone work
Terraces stepping down to the lawnHardscape & stone work
Beds worked into the terraced slopeLandscape installation
The terrace wall along the lawn edgeHardscape & stone work
Steps between the lawn levelsHardscape & stone work
River rock carrying water off the terraceDrainage
The crew, at the yard in Graford
Specimen trees at the size that needs a craneTree installation
Water leaving the capstone as a sheet, into a river rock bedWater features
Cut stone slab bench on the terraceOutdoor living
The oaks were kept and the beds built around themLandscape installation
Turf where grass would never hold under a closed oak canopySynthetic turf
Turf cut to a curve against decomposed graniteSynthetic turf
Planting islands set under the oaks rather than cleared for lawnXeriscape
Full property: oaks kept, beds cut in, the terrace beyondLandscape installation
Barndominium, turf lawn and xeriscape beds on one gradeLandscape installation
A terrace built to be used, not looked atOutdoor living
The entrance: a gravel drive run to a pipe gate, graded to shed waterRanch landscaping
The whole property from the air: turf, terrace, oaks and headquartersRanch landscaping
The island bed from above, and how the drive curves around itXeriscape
Xeriscape from above: boulders placed, not droppedXeriscape
The yard taking shape, specimens staged where they will goLandscape installation
Terrace and turf lawn held inside the existing oak canopyOutdoor living
Down through the canopy: every oak on this property was keptLandscape installation
Turf against a rock-mulch island, straight downSynthetic turf
The whole yard, from aboveSynthetic turf
Turf lawn, oak shade and the view past itSynthetic turf
Turf to the stone edge, waterfall beyondSynthetic turf
Flagstone path, rock mulch beds and a yucca uplit from belowLandscape lighting
Flagstone terrace, stone steps and a stone wall doing the grade workHardscape & stone work
A drive run between stone walls, planted to hold the cutHardscape & stone work
The house lit from the ground up, and the drive that reaches itLandscape lighting
Dry-stacked terracing holding the slope below a lit terraceHardscape & stone work
Crepe myrtles uplit along a curved drive, aimed after darkLandscape lighting
Natural stone terracing lit from below, at twilightLandscape lighting

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  • Yard & nursery617 FM2353
    Graford, TX 76449
  • Telephone(940) 779-4001
  • CoveragePalo Pinto · Young · Stephens
    Parker · Jack · Eastland

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