The general ones are here. Anything specific to a service is answered on that service's own page.
These are the questions that come up whatever the job is. Questions about a particular service, like how a putting green is built or whether turf gets hot, are answered on that service's page.
If what you want to know is not here, the phone is the fastest route. Ask for Tyler or Cory.
Yes, design is a paid service, and the fee is reimbursable toward your final invoice if you go ahead with the build.
Because we do large custom work and there is no honest way to price it from a web page. Two yards the same size can differ by a factor of several depending on access, grade, and what is under the topsoil. We would rather talk it through and give you a real number than publish one that turns out to be wrong.
We get back to you to talk through what you want done, before anyone drives out, so we both know the visit is worth making. After that we walk the property, and photographs and an address get asked for then rather than on the form.
Blanco, Boerne, Bulverde, Canyon Lake, New Braunfels, and Spring Branch. We are based at 1036 Rainbow Dr in Spring Branch, so most of that is a short drive rather than an outlying job.
Singer Services holds TCEQ irrigation licenses LI0027908 and LI0026011. Irrigation work in Texas is licensed for a reason, and it is worth asking anyone quoting you for their number.
We clean up as we go. You have to live on the property while the work is happening, and a site that gets tidied only at the end is not a site anyone wants in front of their house for weeks.
Yes. Most Hill Country lots have a few inches of soil over caliche and limestone, so planting holes get augered or broken out and backfilled properly. It is more work than planting into deep soil, which is exactly why it is worth doing right the first time.
Texas sage, salvia, rosemary, lantana, muhly grass, and mountain laurel all tend to get passed over, because tough aromatic foliage is unappealing for the same reasons it is hardy. Nothing is deer-proof when food gets scarce, and new planting of any kind needs protecting through its first season.
It will if it was designed for them. Drought stages are a normal part of the year here rather than an emergency, so the planting and the irrigation both get planned around a restricted schedule instead of a generous one.
Yes. Several of the subdivisions we work in review what you plant and where, and we would rather deal with that up front than have a design turned down after you have approved it.
Because very little of it soaks in. A few inches of soil over solid limestone means what falls, runs, and on a sloped lot it runs somewhere. It is nearly always a grading and drainage problem rather than a rainfall one.
Both. Plenty of what we do starts as a walkway and some plants by the pool. The reason we ask about the whole lot early is that a wall or a drainage run changes what the rest of the yard can be, not because there is a minimum.
Yes. Knowing what was planted and why makes upkeep easier, but it is not a condition of taking a property on.
Yes, and it is a different job from a residential yard. The difference is rarely the planting, it is the schedule and the coordination around the trades either side of us. There is more detail on the commercial and builder page.
Usually. Irrigation and lighting are the two most often added afterwards, and both can be retrofitted to a finished yard with care taken over what has to be dug through.
