Plant palettes that look right in July.
Anyone can plant in March. We design landscapes that read full and well-bred in August humidity, October cool, and January’s strange Texas freeze. Drought-tolerant where it counts, lush where it matters.
Typical projects $6K – $48K · 2–4 week installs
Owner-operated by Armando, Jose & Cris — Houston-native plant palette, irrigation-aware design.
What lands in your Monarch proposal.
A good landscape plan reads three ways: a plant list with cultivars and sizes, a planting plan with quantities and spacing, and an irrigation plan with zones and emitter counts. You’ll get all three in writing before we dig a hole.
- Plant list: named cultivars, gallon sizes, spacing, and estimated mature height + spread
- Planting plan: scaled to your lot, showing bed outlines, plant locations, and tree placement
- Irrigation: drip emitters on all beds, separate zones per hydrozone; spray/rotor for lawn if in scope
- Soil amendment: 3"–4" compost tilled in; native beds get decomposed granite topdress
- Mulch: 3" hardwood or pine mulch on all bed areas; installed at handoff
- Edging: steel or aluminum bed edge to define the lawn-to-bed transition
- Trees: B&B or 30-gal specimens; root-zone irrigation emitters within 24 hours of install
- Warranty: one-year plant warranty on every shrub and tree we install and irrigate
Plant palettes that fit Houston .
Mexican feather grass, Texas sage, agave, salvia, blackfoot daisy. Drought-tolerant once established; reads silvery-green.
Lowest water demand we plant. Irrigation runs once weekly in summer; nothing in winter.
Color through spring and fall. Goes quietly silver in deepest summer — a feature, not a bug.
When the property leans modern, the budget rewards drought tolerance, and the look should read native rather than English.
Oakleaf hydrangea, dwarf gardenia, Indian hawthorn, dwarf yaupon, fern. Reads full and saturated green.
Drip irrigation 2–3 times weekly in peak summer. Higher demand than Hill Country, lower than turf.
Year-round green with seasonal blooms. Works in partial shade under existing oak canopy.
When the home is traditional, you have shade from existing oaks, and you want lush rather than xeric.
Specimen agave, dwarf bottlebrush, mass muhly, ornamental grass plantings, slim podocarpus hedges.
Repeated forms in larger groups; fewer species, more confident planting. Reads architectural.
More gravel, decomposed granite, and crushed stone in the bed than conventional plantings — the hardscape is part of the palette.
When the home is contemporary and the landscape should read as composition rather than collection.
Native milkweed, pentas, lantana, salvia for pollinators; raised beds with herbs, citrus, fig, peppers.
Built to be picked from. Beds sized for kneeling reach; herb spirals near the kitchen door.
Engineered to flower from February through November — pollinators stay all year, not just May.
When the family cooks from the yard and the landscape needs to be both edible and decorative.
Most landscape projects we install land between $12K and $28K. Drivers are total bed area, specimen tree count, and whether irrigation and lighting are in the same scope.
300–500 sqft of beds, new plant palette, drip irrigation, mulch, steel edge.
600–1000 sqft, 2–4 specimen trees, drip irrigation, edge stone, landscape lighting.
Front + back, full design, 1500+ sqft of beds, multiple specimens, full irrigation rebuild, lighting.
How a Monarch landscape actually gets designed.
Discovery
We walk the property with you, understand how you actually use the yard, and listen for the real ask behind the landscape. No tape measures yet — just questions.
Design + Material Selection
You see plans drawn to your lot, plant palettes laid out side by side, and a fixed-price proposal you can read in five minutes. We refine until it fits both the space and the budget.
Prep & Permit
We pull the permits, file with your HOA, and stage the site. Lawn edges and existing landscaping get protected before a single tool comes out.
Install
Owner-led crews on site daily. The same Curiel or Alvarez who quoted the project is the one you text when something comes up. Daily clean-up; no surprises.
We Come Back
Thirty days, ninety days, a year later — we check the plants, replant anything that didn’t take, and answer the questions that surface once you’ve actually lived with the space.
Landscape design across Houston's western and northern suburbs.
Heights · Memorial · Meyerland
Cinco Ranch · Firethorne — HOA-savvy approvals
Bridgeland · Towne Lake — large lot specialists
First Colony · Riverstone · Sweetwater
Creekside · Sterling Ridge — tree-canopy builds
Gleannloch Farms · Spring Trails
Willow Creek · Lakewood — large-span structures
Cross Creek Ranch · Polo Ranch — pre-approval service
Landscape — the questions homeowners actually ask.
Native and Texas-adapted species do — muhly, salvia, Texas sage, agave, oakleaf hydrangea, dwarf yaupon, Indian hawthorn. Anything sold as a “tropical” that isn’t actually native will limp by July. We bias the palette toward survivors.
Year one looks like a planting plan. Year two reads full. Year three you stop noticing where the beds end and the lawn begins. We size starter material accordingly so the gap isn’t painful.
Drip irrigation on every bed we install — yes. Rotor / spray irrigation on lawns — yes when in scope. We don’t do irrigation-only projects (no plantings); we do it as part of a landscape build.
Almost always. We design the new landscape around the canopy, route any trenching outside the dripline, and amend root-zone soil rather than disturbing it. Mature oaks are an asset; we don’t fight them.
Western Houston subdivisions back to greenbelts that move deer regularly. We plant deer-resistant species (Texas sage, agave, salvia, lantana) and tag the few that need protection during their first season.
One-year plant warranty on every shrub and tree we install on irrigation we control. We replace anything that doesn’t make it through the first season at no charge.
Ready to plan a landscape that reads right in every season?
We’ll walk the property, take a soil sample, and get you a fixed-price design + planting plan in ten days.