Preston Hollow Landscape Architect

Preston Hollow is where we've built our biggest portfolio over the last two decades, with dozens of projects spread across 75230 from north of Walnut Hill to west of the Tollway. Lots in this neighborhood run anywhere from half-acre infill sites to multi-acre estates carrying mature canopies older than the houses sitting beneath them. Three things shape almost every project we take on here: trees, architecture, and the homeowner's expectation that the finished property reads as considered as the home it sits behind. Your result should look like it belongs.

What's specific to Preston Hollow

Many Preston Hollow lots carry significant heritage trees: live oak, post oak, magnolia, pecan. Working with these trees is the first design decision on most projects. We protect critical root zones during construction, uplight the canopy after dark, and choose plant palettes that complement what's already there rather than compete with it. Wholesale tree removal is almost always wrong.

Lots vary widely. Streets like Hollow Way, Park Lane, Strait Lane, and Lakeside Drive carry properties with very different width-to-depth ratios. A pool that works on a wide-shallow lot doesn't work on a deep-narrow one. We design to the geometry of the actual lot, not a stock plan.

Preston Hollow has nearly every residential style represented: Georgian, Mediterranean, French eclectic, Tudor, modern Hill Country, and contemporary. The landscape has to read correctly with the architecture in front of it. We don't have a Preston Hollow style. We have a process that adapts to whatever the house is doing.

Heavy black gumbo clay covers most of the neighborhood. That single fact shapes hardscape base detailing, drainage planning, foundation distance from new plantings, and irrigation calibration on every project. We spec for it from day one.

Standard Dallas residential permitting applies across most streets. No HOA architectural review on most of the neighborhood, and tree ordinance compliance for protected trees over a defined caliper. A few small subdivisions inside Preston Hollow carry additional review processes that we handle in the design phase.

Selected Preston Hollow projects

Modern French Formal Estate. A French formal pool and garden integrated into the existing architecture of a Preston Hollow estate, with stone terraces, manicured hedging, and a water feature on axis with the house.

Soft Modern Pool & Pavilion. A pool and covered pavilion on a tight Preston Hollow back yard, designed to maximize entertaining capacity within the setback constraints that applied on the lot.

Tornado Home Reset. A full landscape rebuild after the 2019 Preston Hollow tornado removed the mature canopy across the property, with a planting plan that reestablishes privacy and shade over a fifteen-year horizon.

Typical project scope

Preston Hollow projects most often combine landscape architecture, pool design, hardscape, and significant garden work. Average project value runs higher than the city as a whole because the lots support more complex builds.

Permitting and review

Most of Preston Hollow permits through the City of Dallas. A few enclaves like Bluffview and Bent Tree carry additional review. Tree protection is the most common point of friction during permitting. Our pre-construction tree assessments anticipate this so the build phase doesn't get held up later.

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