Johnson Ranch Landscape · Ranch to Home Templates
Plant & soil packages,
built for ranch-to-home living.
Every garden starts with soil. From there it becomes whatever you ask it to be — food, medicine, pollinator habitat, drainage, animal agriculture, or full off-grid infrastructure. These are the foundational templates. Click one to instantly pre-fill a proposal. We walk the property to confirm fit.
How it works. Click any template below — it opens the proposal builder with the full materials list, plant palette, and labor already loaded. Adjust quantities, drop in your contact info, and we'll walk the site to confirm species and price before anything's binding.
Section I · Soil & Foundation
Start with the soil.
Hill Country ground is mostly caliche, compacted clay, or depleted topsoil. Before anything productive grows, the soil has to come alive. Compost, biochar, microbial activator, deep mulch — the foundation every other template assumes.
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HILL COUNTRY · TX
Compost · Biochar · Microbial
Soil Reset
Rebuild compacted, caliche-bound, or depleted ground into living soil. Cotton-burr compost, biochar, microbial activator, oak-bark mulch, steel edging. Everything else grows from here.
200 sqft bed · 8 yd compost · 4 cu biochar · enriched topsoil · oak mulch
$2400
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Section II · Edible & Medicinal
The garden that feeds and heals.
Kitchen herbs, vegetables, fruit and nut trees, tea-garden medicinals — sages, yarrow, echinacea, lavender, rosemary, thyme. Productive plants chosen for Hill Country climate. The household apothecary, the family table.
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HILL COUNTRY · TX
Raised Beds · Herbs · Vegetables
Kitchen Garden
Raised-bed vegetable and herb garden for the household. Deep organic soil, vermicompost top-dress, drip line, steel edging. Tomatoes, peppers, basil, rosemary — crew confirms varieties on the walk.
200 sqft beds · vermicompost · garden soil · drip zone · edging
$5,500
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EDIBLE
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Fruit & Nut · Trees · Drip
Native Edible Orchard
Adapted fruit & nut trees — pecan, fig, mulberry, persimmon — with native shrub understory, drip irrigation, and deep organic soil prep. The orchard your grandkids harvest from.
6 trees · 8 understory shrubs · 400 sqft bed · drip zone · cotton-burr
$8,500
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MEDICINAL
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Tea Garden · Herbs · Apothecary
Medicinal & Apothecary Garden
Traditional medicinal & tea garden — sages, salvias, yarrow, echinacea, lavender, rosemary, thyme. The household apothecary in your front yard. Soil-first prep, drip-compatible.
250 sqft bed · 5 sage species · medicinal shrubs · compost · edging
$4,800
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Section III · Hill Country Classics
The regional palette.
Iconic Bulverde landscapes — flagstone steps, limestone boulders, agaves, feathergrass, sages, native canopy trees. Built for caliche, designed to read as Hill Country at first glance.
XERIC
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HILL COUNTRY · TX
Front Yard · Drought-Tolerant
Xeric Hill Country
Decomposed granite path, river rock field, feather grass, agaves, red yucca. Cuts irrigation to near-zero year one. The classic xeriscape conversion.
250 sqft DG · 150 sqft river rock · feather grass · agaves · edging
$5,500
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SIGNATURE
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Flagstone · Boulders · Borders
Hill Country Classic
Flagstone steps, limestone boulder accents, native shrub borders, accent tree. The signature Bulverde mid-tier install.
30 sqft flagstone · 8 boulders · 12 shrubs · 2 trees · DG path
$9,500
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MEADOW
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HILL COUNTRY · TX
Meadow · Native · Drip
Hill Country Meadow
Mixed sages, Mexican feathergrass, canopy trees, and a first-year drip zone for establishment. Looks wild, reads intentional.
600 sqft meadow · 24 grasses · 24 sages · 4 trees · drip zone
$16,000
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Section IV · Pollinator & Water
Habitat that works.
Pollinator-first plantings bring honeybees, native bees, monarchs, hummingbirds. Bioswales turn drainage problems into habitat infrastructure. Both build the food web that everything else depends on.
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Bees · Monarchs · Hummingbirds
Pollinator Patch
Focused pollinator garden — mixed sages, feather grass, cedar sage, native shrubs. Bees, monarchs, hummingbirds within the first season.
300 sqft · 4 sage species · feather grass · organic soil prep
$4,200
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DRAINAGE
Bioswale · French Drain · Filter
Bioswale System
Drainage-as-feature — french drain + channel, river rock check dams, native filter plantings, regraded slope. Solves runoff and erosion while building habitat.
60 ft drain · 40 ft channel · 200 sqft rock · 12 grasses · 10 shrubs
$6,200
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Section V · Estate & Off-Grid Living
The full property build.
Limestone walls. Flagstone paths. Native canopy. Pollinator beds. Drip irrigation. Solar lighting. Rainwater-ready hardscape. The yard becomes infrastructure — the kind of build that increases the home's value year over year.
ESTATE
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Full Estate · Lighting · Irrigation
Estate Native
Limestone garden wall, flagstone paths, large meadow, canopy trees, low-voltage path lighting, dual drip zones, organic soil prep. The full estate package.
60 ft wall · 80 sqft flagstone · 1200 sqft meadow · 8 trees · lighting
$28,000
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OFF-GRID
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Rainwater · Edible · Solar Lighting
Off-Grid Ranch Setup
Full ranch-to-home off-grid build — rainwater-catchment-ready hardscape, native edible canopy, pollinator beds, low-voltage solar lighting, dual drip zones, deep organic soil prep.
30 ft wall · 8 trees · 800 sqft bed · 16 path lights · drip × 3
$22,000
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Section VI · Ranch Agriculture
The land that raises animals.
Plant and soil packages designed around livestock. Quail habitat for game birds. Predator-aware chicken yards integrated with the house and kitchen. Rotational goat-browse paddocks built for ranch rotation systems. The land does double duty — landscape and pasture.
GAME BIRDS
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HILL COUNTRY · TX
Quail · Songbirds · Cover Habitat
Quail Habitat
Bobwhite-quail-friendly ground cover — low scrub, native grasses, broken canopy. Restores habitat, attracts game and song birds, supports the food web. Designed for ranchers who want birds back.
400 sqft · 24 cover shrubs · 30 feather grass · 4 canopy trees
$7,500
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BACKYARD POULTRY
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Chickens · Herb Forage · Dust Bath
Chicken Yard
Predator-aware chicken yard with shaded perches, dust-bath area, herb forage strip, caliche-prepped coop pad. Integrates with the house, the kitchen, and the medicinal garden.
12 shade shrubs · 150 sqft herb forage · caliche coop base · edging
$4,200
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LIVESTOCK
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HILL COUNTRY · TX
Goats · Rotational · Browse
Goat Browse Pasture
Rotational goat-browse paddock — native browse shrubs, low-canopy trees, native grasses, graded paths. Built for ranch rotation systems where the herd manages the brush.
30 browse shrubs · 8 low trees · 20 grass clumps · graded paths
$6,000
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Stack templates. Build a whole property.
These work alone or together. Soil Reset + Kitchen Garden + Chicken Yard becomes a complete ranch-to-home homestead. Off-Grid Ranch Setup + Quail Habitat + Bioswale becomes an ecological estate. We design the system — you live in it.