Work Portfolio
Landscape & Outdoor Living Work Portfolio in the Texas Hill Country
Sam’s Nursery & Landscaping designs, builds and maintains outdoor spaces from Buchanan Dam. Here is the range of work we take on, with photos from our property.
Completed projects
Photos of work completed by Sam’s Nursery & Landscaping.
Showing 11 projects
Landscape Design, Driveway Refinishing, Fence Design and Maintenance
The Drace
Lake LBJ, Texas Hill Country
Drought-tolerant entrance landscaping for The Drace on Lake LBJ: blue yucca, agave and pink muhly grass in white and slate gravel beds with boulders, black edging and a maintained lawn along the limestone wall.
Landscape Design, Driveway Refinishing, Fence Design and Maintenance
Log Country Cove
Entrance landscaping at the Log Country Cove log-timber gate: terraced sandstone slabs and standing boulders with columnar evergreens, bald cypress, pink muhly grass, lantana and silver groundcover in mulched beds.
Landscape Design, Driveway Refinishing, Fence Design and Maintenance
Legendary Estates: Entrance Landscape
Lake LBJ, Texas Hill Country
Low-water entrance landscaping at the Legendary Estates on Lake LBJ stone monument sign: pampas grass, agave, blue yucca, European fan palms and sago palms with lantana color, set in river-gravel beds with native boulders and landscape lighting.
Landscape Design, Driveway Refinishing, Fence Design and Maintenance
Legendary Estates: Home Landscape and Drainage
Lake LBJ, Texas Hill Country
Home landscape and drainage design on a Lake LBJ lot: gravel and river-rock beds with steel-grate trench drains, steel edging, flagstone and limestone steppers, boulders and a petrified-wood monolith, planted with agave, yucca, prickly pear, pink muhly grass and junipers, with landscape lighting and ongoing maintenance.
Landscape Design, Driveway Refinishing, Fence Design and Maintenance
Legendary Estates: Backyard, Turf and Deck
Lake LBJ, Texas Hill Country
Lakefront backyard and front yard landscape on Lake LBJ: artificial turf terraces with board-formed concrete steps and walls, an in-ground trampoline, lounge decks, cable-rail and iron fencing, and rust steel-edged black gravel beds planted with blue yucca and agave. Out front, a paver driveway with sod lawn, stone steppers and a multi-stem tree in a limestone planter, with the lakeside dock walk finished in river rock.
Landscape Design, Driveway Refinishing, Fence Design and Maintenance
Design, Drainage and Water Feature
A flowing stream built through a river-rock and boulder channel with steel edging, path lighting and flagstone stepping slabs, running down a lawn toward the lake and planted with abelia and flowering shrubs. A cut-limestone water wall with two scuppers spills into a flagstone patio, with curved limestone steps and capped retaining walls. Boulder-lined dry creek swales carry drainage across the lawn past crape myrtles and oaks, and tiered limestone beds are planted with mistflower.
Landscape Design, Driveway Refinishing, Fence Design and Maintenance
King Court
A garage conversion and landscape design at King Court on the lake: a bright open kitchen and living space with a loft, two bedrooms and a tiled bath, plus a covered patio, gravel drive with concrete curbing, mowed lawn with boulders, a gazebo and a stone-ringed fire pit by the water.
Landscape Design, Driveway Refinishing, Fence Design and Maintenance
Custom Designs and Maintenance: Home Landscape
Home landscape design and ongoing maintenance around a limestone and metal-roof house: curved, capped limestone retaining walls holding raised beds of lilyturf, barrel cactus, rosemary, purple sage, pampas grass and Pride of Barbados, with crape myrtles at the house, a tiered fountain, river-rock mulch, and a blue plumbago bed with path lighting and a slatted privacy screen. The grounds include a tree-lined concrete drive, a lawn and a lakeside sport court.
Landscape Design, Driveway Refinishing, Fence Design and Maintenance
Custom Designs and Maintenance: Driveway and Fence
Landscape design, driveway refinishing and fence design and maintenance on a lakefront property shaded by live oaks. The refinished terracotta-tinted concrete drive is edged with native boulders and runs to stone-pillared entry gates and a red-painted iron fence beside a stained wood privacy fence. Around it are lawns, rock-bordered beds of society garlic, yellow bells and yucca, and a lakeside patio of flagstone, glazed pots and an infinity-edge pool with a stone-and-tile waterfall and slide.
Custom structures
Custom Wood Pergola Over Plant Display Tables
A custom wood pergola built by Sam’s Nursery & Landscaping: a lattice roof on dark-stained posts with diagonal bracing, shading tiered plant tables over a gravel yard beside a live oak.
Custom structures
Custom Wood Pavilion with Green Metal Roof
A custom open-sided wood pavilion built by Sam’s Nursery & Landscaping, with a green metal roof, timber posts and corner bracing, a railed deck floor and a gravel surround.
Projects we design and build

Landscape Design, Build & Maintenance
Full-service design, installation, and ongoing care, start to finish.

Patio Furniture & Outdoor Décor
Patio setups with furniture, garden pots, and décor, ready for you to see in person.

Custom Structures & Galvstruct Buildings
Custom structures built by Sam’s, plus Galvstruct (formerly Star) structures as a preferred seller.

Koi Ponds, Fountains & Water Features
Koi ponds, garden ponds, fountains, waterfalls, and specialty landscape enhancements for a finished look.
More photos are in our gallery. To talk through your own project, see the contact and visit page.
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