The Lovage Drive Project

A Colorful, Water-Wise Front Yard Built for Curb Appeal & Easy Care

The Lovage Drive project is a front-yard makeover designed for curb appeal, year-round color, and a lower-water landscape that keeps a refined lawn at its center.

  • Location: Private Residence

  • Project Type: Residential Design-Build

  • Services Featured: Native and adapted planting, concrete paver walkway, decomposed granite, boulder accents, steel edging, drought-tolerant groundcover, landscape lighting

Gold-colored stylized plant with three leaves on a black background.
Curved perennial bed with lantana, artemisia, salvia, and limestone accent stones along a bay window

Project Overview

The homeowners wanted a front yard with real curb appeal. One that could handle the Texas heat and needed less water and upkeep than their tired lawn, without them having to manage the project themselves. Southern Love Landscaping guided the design from concept to finished build, reworking the thirsty lawn into a water-wise, color-filled landscape with native and adapted plants, defined walkways, and layered planting beds that give the arrival structure and personality.

The finished space feels vibrant, welcoming, and easy to maintain. A concrete paver walkway guides visitors to the door, ornamental grasses and flowering perennials add movement and seasonal color, and a trimmed lawn keeps a green anchor at the center. Mature trees frame the yard and give the design a settled, established feel; a front yard the homeowners are proud to come home to, built by a team they could trust.

Ranch home entry with concrete paver walkway, lawn, and perennial bed of silver artemisia and salvia

What We Designed & Built

For The Lovage Drive Project, Southern Love delivered:

  • A water-wise front yard planted with Texas natives and adapted perennials

  • A floating concrete paver walkway from the driveway to the entry

  • Layered planting beds with ornamental grasses, agave, and flowering perennials

  • A refined, reduced lawn kept as a green anchor at the center of the yard

  • Limestone boulder accents set among the beds

  • Gravel and rock mulch in the planting beds for lower water use and upkeep

  • Steel edging to define beds, paths, and planting areas

  • A gravel border along the driveway

  • Landscape lighting to highlight paths and planting at night

Flagstone path curving through a river rock bed with esperanza, muhly grass, and silver sage

A Closer Look at the Lovage Drive Project

Concrete driveway edged with a river rock border and ornamental grasses beside a two-car garage
Ranch home entry with concrete paver walkway, lawn, and perennial bed of silver artemisia and salvia
Corner-lot front yard with mixed perennial border, cedar fence, and sculpted evergreen shrub
Curved perennial bed with lantana, artemisia, salvia, and limestone accent stones along a bay window
Flagstone paver path crossing a lawn to a driveway, framed by native perennial beds and mature oaks
Narrow side-yard bed with esperanza, muhly grass, and salvia running along a weathered cedar fence
Flagstone stepping-stone path through a gravel bed with sage and low-water perennials beside the house
Side-yard planting bed of yellow esperanza and Russian sage leading toward the front driveway
Paver walkway between brick facade and a native bed with agave, silver shrubs, and ornamental grasses
Concrete paver walkway alongside a lawn with a full perennial border of daylilies and native grasses
Flagstone path curving through a river rock bed with esperanza, muhly grass, and silver sage
Front elevation with layered perennial beds, boulder accent, and lawn framing the garage and entry

Create a Front Yard That Stands Out for All the Right Reasons

The Lovage Drive project shows how a tired lawn becomes a colorful, low-water landscape that turns heads from the street and needs far less upkeep. From the first design to the final planting, Southern Love Landscaping guides you through a clear, start-to-finish process built on quality work and straight communication.

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