Artificial turf backyard with rock-bordered tree beds

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Photos from yards our crew has built: patios, walls, turf, xeriscapes, sod, drainage and lighting. Design concepts are labeled as concepts.

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Paver patios & walkways
Retaining walls & borders
Artificial turf
Xeriscaping & rock landscapes
Sod installation
Drainage
Landscape lighting
Landscape design

Paver patios & walkways

Patios, walkways and stepping-stone paths built on a compacted base so they stay level.

Paver patio with a wood pergola and green lawn in a backyard — Paver patio with a wood pergola

Concrete stepping-stone walkway set in black rock along a driveway — Stepping-stone walkway along a driveway

Large tan stepping-stone pavers set in black rock with steel edging beside a driveway — Stepping-stone pavers set in black rock

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Retaining walls & borders

Stone borders and raised beds that hold soil in place and give beds a clean edge.

Limestone border edging a lawn and tree bed — Limestone border around a tree bed

Limestone block raised bed around trees, with new sod in front — Limestone raised bed around shade trees

Before & after

Before: overgrown front bed corner with bare soil — Before

During: beds dug out and landscape fabric laid down — During: beds dug out, fabric down

After: river rock bed with a cut-limestone border around existing shrubs — After: river rock bed with a cut-limestone border

River rock bed with a cut-limestone border, seen from another angle — After: the same bed from another angle

Close-up of river rock and cut-limestone edging along the lawn — After: clean limestone edge along the lawn

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Artificial turf

Turf laid over a prepared, compacted base, with clean edges at borders and beds.

Before & after: one backyard, start to finish

Backyard before: patchy dirt and mulch under shade trees — Before

Same backyard after: artificial turf with a limestone border and river-rock rings around the trees — After: artificial turf, limestone border and river-rock tree rings

Artificial turf with limestone block border beside a flagstone patio — Turf with a limestone block border

River-rock rings around tree trunks in an artificial turf yard — River-rock rings around the trees

Artificial turf yard next to a flagstone patio and red pergola — Turf next to the flagstone patio and pergola

RedMill Landscapes owner kneeling and stretching artificial turf with a knee kicker — Joe, our veteran owner, on a turf install

Finished artificial turf lawn with limestone border — Finished turf with a limestone border

More turf jobs

Artificial turf lawn with a limestone border — Turf lawn inside a limestone border

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Xeriscaping & rock landscapes

Rock, boulders and drought-tolerant plants that look good through a San Antonio summer.

Modern xeriscape with mixed rock, a boulder and drought-tolerant plants — Mixed rock, boulder and native plants

Xeriscape with decorative rock, stepping stones and drought-tolerant plants under shade trees — Rock beds and steppers under shade trees

Agave plants in bowl planters on decorative stone — Agaves in bowl planters on decorative stone

Before & after

Before: weedy grass strip between the sidewalk and a brick house — Before

During: the same bed cleared to bare soil — During

After: river-rock xeriscape with cactus and agave beside the brick house — After

Finished river-rock bed with tan and black pebbles, cactus and agave — Mixed river rock, cactus and agave

The same xeriscape bed at night with low-voltage uplights — Same bed after dark, with low-voltage uplights

Project: Oakwell Farms xeriscape & lighting

After: xeriscape bed along a brick home and sidewalk with black Mexican beach pebble bands through river rock, agave and cactus — Oakwell Farms: black Mexican beach pebble through river rock

A homeowner in Oakwell Farms was tired of dealing with grass. We drew up a xeriscape plan, got it approved by the HOA, and built it with river rock, black Mexican beach pebble, boulders, a mini dry creek bed and landscape lighting.

See the full Oakwell Farms project →

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Sod installation

Fresh sod laid on prepared soil for a lawn you can use right away.

Newly installed sod lawn in a front yard — New sod in a front yard

Thinking about sod installation? We’ll walk the yard with you and give you a written estimate.

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Before & after

Before: front yard stripped to bare soil with sod pallets on the driveway — Before

After: new green sod lawn under a shade tree — After: fresh sod, installed and watered in

Drainage

A French drain we installed: the trench is lined with filter fabric, the perforated pipe is bedded in gravel, and a pop-up emitter lets the water out.