Low Maintenance
River Rock Landscaping

It's a different trade-off. Rock never decomposes, so you don't re-buy it every year — but it also never feeds your soil, and it holds heat, which some plants dislike. Rock wins on side yards, drainage runs, and low-water beds. Mulch usually wins around thirsty plantings.

Far fewer, but it isn't zero. Weeds that do show up germinate in dust and debris that settle into the rock from above, not from the soil below. Installed over proper fabric with a clean edge, a rock bed is dramatically less work than mulch.

Yes — it's one of the best reasons to use it. Rock lets water move instead of washing away the way mulch does, which is why dry creek beds and downspout runs are built from it. If you have a spot in the yard that stays soggy, mention it at the estimate.

Everything from pea gravel and decomposed granite up through Texas black, cream, and multicolor river rock and larger accent boulders. Smaller stone reads as a smooth surface; larger stone reads as texture. We'll show you samples against your brick before you decide.

Not directly. Mulch keeps breaking down and settling underneath, so the rock sinks into it and the bed looks tired within a season. We clear the bed, set fabric and an edge, then place the rock.

It is. Rock beds and drought-tolerant plantings are the standard answer to DFW's summer restrictions, because they hold their look on far less water than turf or annual color.