Landscape Renovation in Allen, TX

Landscape Renovation for Allen Homes

Many Allen homes in Watters Crossing, Suncreek and the established neighborhoods west of US-75 still wear the landscaping they were built with in the 1990s or early 2000s. After twenty-plus seasons, the hollies and Indian hawthorns have swallowed the windows, Bradford pears have split in storms, red tip photinias have died out, and St. Augustine has thinned to nothing under trees that are now three times bigger. A landscape renovation keeps what is still valuable, usually the mature shade trees, and rebuilds everything around it.

The work starts with a careful edit. Overgrown and freeze-damaged shrubs come out, weak or invasive trees like callery pear are evaluated for removal, and old root masses under the beds are cleared. Then beds are reshaped to fit the current house and trees, the clay is re-amended because decades of mulch break down and settle, and plantings are chosen for the shade that now exists rather than the full sun the original plan assumed. Where grass will no longer grow under oaks and elms, shade beds with inland sea oats, liriope, autumn fern or Asian jasmine take over.

Renovations also catch up on old problems: edging that has heaved out of the clay, beds that slope toward the slab, sprinkler heads spraying brick, and walks that have tilted. Since most Allen neighborhoods have an HOA, check your HOA's design guidelines and submit plans for approval before work starts.