One local landscaper for the whole county — from historic downtown to Smithville, Cedar Creek and every community between.
Bastrop County is one of Texas’s original counties, laid out in 1836 and named for Baron de Bastrop. It’s defined by two things you can see from almost anywhere: the Lost Pines — a rare island of loblolly pines cut off from the East Texas forests — and the Colorado River winding through it.
From historic downtown Bastrop to Smithville, Cedar Creek and the communities in between, Bastrop Landscapes is the local crew that knows this county’s sandy soil, pine shade and Texas heat. Wherever you are in the county, we’ll help your outdoor space thrive.
On 4 September 2011 the Bastrop County Complex Fire started. It burned for 55 days, swept roughly 32,000 acres, destroyed more than 1,600 homes and took two lives. It reached 96% of Bastrop State Park — the park whose cabins and stonework the Civilian Conservation Corps had cut and laid by hand back in the 1930s.
Then the county did something worth remembering. Starting in January 2013 and running five years, close to two million loblolly seedlings went into the ground across the park and the surrounding county. Not generic nursery stock either — they were grown from drought-hardy Lost Pines genetics, the strain that had already proven it could survive out here. Volunteers from around the world put 140,686 of them in by hand.
We think about that more than you’d expect. A lot of the pines you drive past around Bastrop today are younger than the truck we haul equipment in. This ground has already been rebuilt once inside living memory, and it got rebuilt by choosing plants that belong here rather than plants that look good on a delivery trailer. That’s more or less our whole approach to a yard.
Figures from Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.
Reliable mowing and turf care for homes across Bastrop County.
Custom beds, hardscape and native plantings built for Central Texas.
Crisp edges that keep any property looking finished.
Trimming and clearing to keep your land safe, open and attractive.
Season-timed feeding for lush, resilient lawns.
Spring and fall cleanups that keep your yard pristine year-round.
Patios, walkways and stone work — we design it, manage the build and stay on site.
Bastrop County doesn’t have one kind of ground — it has about six. Drive fifteen minutes in any direction from the courthouse and the soil, the shade and the size of the lot all change, and so does what your yard actually needs. After years of working these roads, here’s how we think about it.
A brand-new house comes with a brand-new yard, and that’s not the gift it sounds like. Builder sod goes down thin over compacted ground, the beds are bare, and the trees are young enough to need babying through their first summer. The work here is establishment: watering that actually takes, beds that fill in, and getting a lawn to knit together before the August heat tests it.
Sandy, fast-draining soil and dappled shade all day. Water runs straight through, so feeding matters more and matters differently. Turf thins where the canopy is heaviest, needle and leaf drop is a year-round job rather than an autumn one, and tree roots compete with grass for everything. Mowing height goes up here, not down.
Lots that people see from more than one angle, often on a grade. Edges have to be crisp because the property line is visible from the fairway, and anything on a slope needs planting and mulch that stays put in a hard Texas rain.
Thin, fast-draining ground where the smart move is to stop fighting it. Agave, yucca, native grasses and rock do better than turf ever will out here, and once they’re established they need a fraction of the water.
Out here the job changes shape. It’s less about a lawn and more about keeping a property under control — brush, fence lines, drives, and the areas that go from tidy to overgrown in one wet spring. Different equipment, different rhythm.
Older neighbourhoods run to heavier clay that holds water and compacts, which is a different problem from the sand out by the river. Smaller lots, mature trees, and neighbours close enough to notice a crooked edge.
Not sure which of these describes your place? Tell us the street and we’ll know. (512) 360-8281
From the Lost Pines and the Colorado River to the farmland and ranch country to the south, Bastrop County covers a huge range of properties — and we serve all of it: in-town lawns in Bastrop and Smithville, wooded lots in the Lost Pines, master-planned communities like The Colony, and acreage out in Cedar Creek, Paige, Red Rock, and Rosanky.
Because the county is so varied, we tailor service to your property — weekly and bi-weekly mowing for residential lawns, shade and pine management in the wooded communities, and acreage mowing and brush control on rural properties. Wherever you are in Bastrop County, we keep it sharp.
One local, fully-insured team for the whole county — quotes usually go out the same day.
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