Landscaping in San Antonio

Yes. Klema Builders is a San Antonio landscaping contractor serving San Antonio, the Texas Hill Country and the I-35 corridor to Austin. The team installs sod, shrub and tree plantings, xeriscape beds with native Texas plants, decomposed granite, river rock and mulch, steel and stone bed borders, low-voltage landscape lighting, and hardscapes such as flagstone paths and low stone walls. Every landscaping job is quoted fixed-price, line by line, after a free in-home consult, with the written quote in 3 to 5 business days, and it can be planned and built together with a Klema deck, patio or pergola so the whole yard is finished at once.

The price of landscaping in San Antonio depends on the square footage, sod versus xeriscape, plant sizes and counts, how much rock or mulch the beds take, whether lighting or hardscape is added, and how much old turf and soil has to come out. Klema Builders does not publish a price list: after a free in-home consult you get a written fixed-price quote, line by line, within 3 to 5 business days, and that quote is the total you pay. Each part of the yard (sod, beds, lighting, hardscape) is its own line, so you can phase the work.

Plants that are native or adapted to South Central Texas handle the heat, the drought stages and the alkaline soil best. For sun: Texas sage, lantana, esperanza, salvia, blackfoot daisy, agave, yucca and Mexican feather grass. For shade under live oaks: turk's cap, inland sea oats and native sedges. We pick every plant per bed from its sun, soil and water, and name the species and size of each one in the written plant list.

Choose sod where people and dogs actually use the grass: play space, a back lawn, a strip along a patio. Choose xeriscape where nobody walks and the sun is hardest, such as front yards, hot side yards, slopes and hell strips along the street. Most yards we plan use both: a smaller lawn where it earns its water and native beds with decomposed granite, rock and mulch everywhere else.

St. Augustine is the most shade-tolerant of the three and stays green with regular water, so it suits yards with live oaks. Bermuda wants full sun, handles drought and foot traffic best, and goes dormant brown when water is short. Zoysia sits between them: denser underfoot, some shade tolerance, slower to spread. We choose the grass from the hours of sun the lawn actually gets, measured at the yard walk.

San Antonio Water System (SAWS) and most Hill Country utilities limit sprinkler watering to set days during drought stages, while drip irrigation and hand watering are treated more leniently. That is one reason we lean on native plants that need little water once established. New sod and plantings need extra water for the first weeks, so we schedule installs around the current stage and give you a written watering plan.