FAQs

Yes! Anderson Landscape has 1000s of Austin area projects completed over the decades and you can easily find one near you on their map which is located midway down the homepage of this website. For Hill Country style or urban infill projects and recent reviews, which are separated into outdoor living categories, you can view them via their award winning Best of Service Houzz page. https://www.houzz.com/pro/austinlandscaping/__public 

Anderson Landscape has a unique design build philosophy. Projects can vary widely in cost from sod and basic builder grade home landscape installation to custom home outdoor living luxury landscape master plan installation.

No matter what your goal is, Anderson Landscape has honed their process in a way that helps every homeowner make an excellent decision when investing in their landscape improvements. Anderson Landscape estimates are not guestimates like other companies. Anderson Landscape uses some of the newest technology https://www.moasure.com/pages/industries-landscaping to ensure materials needed are measured to the highest available degree possible so that your estimate is solid and true. Only “To Be Determined” items listed on your estimate, which are items that are for you the homeowner to select or items that are yet to be discovered during a demo phase, will be slightly ambiguous yet all items will be associated with a budgetary line item for homeowner consideration.

Anderson Landscape (Chris Anderson Inc.) even offers financing options for outdoor living improvements through a local lender based on our strong local economy. https://app.gethearth.com/partners/chris-anderson-inc/christopher/apply

Anderson Landscape is owned and operated by Chris Anderson who is degreed in in Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. Unlike most landscapers who either have no formal education or have education from the art side of landscaping. Chris is degreed, studied and continues to value the Texas native landscape for what it is and the habitats that it has always sustained.

Anderson Landscape was crucial in helping to educate Austin area homeowners and promote passage of property code in 2013 that prevented Home Owners Associations from keeping homeowners from water wise landscape techniques to include xeriscape and Texas Native Landscape plantings. You can read it directly here. Section 202.007 https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/docs/PR/htm/PR.202.htm#:~:text=May%2029%2C%202023.-,Sec.,arbitrary%2C%20capricious%2C%20or%20discriminatory.

Anderson Landscape has set the pace for Austin area homeowners to be water wise since 2013. This legislation passed and is still in effect. Some municipalities offer xeriscaping tax credits now.

In the state of Texas some aspects of landscape outdoor living improvement project construction requires specialty contractor licenses like those of plumbers and electricians in outdoor kitchen builds. These are not licenses that a landscape contractor has or can get.

Anderson Landscape belongs to and international business network organization for over 15 years that thoroughly screens, interviews and vets it’s applicants for the highest integrity standards per industry. As long standing members they have access to the entire catalog of contractors. For Example, Anderson Landscape has successfully referred Altek electrical for the electrical needs for many of their projects recently with a 100% satisfaction rating among their clients. https://altekelectricalservices.com/home/about-us/

After 26 years in business serving central Texas and the Austin area, there isn’t a commercial or small nursery that Anderson Landscape hasn’t stopped into from time to time. Time is money and so is quality! Providing quality healthy plants for each project installed best ensures a better opportunity for the planter beds to thrive season after season.

Anderson Landscape will source plants from which ever nursery has the best quality plant variety necessary for the particular light and soil details required for each individual project. From South Austin and our long time friends at Leaf https://www.leaflandscapesupply.com/ to our projects up in Round Rock where we love to stop in at Newtons https://www.newtonnurseries.com/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=local&utm_content=austin Our clients come first and Austin area nurseries never fail to impress even the pickiest of central Texas horticulture enthusiasts.

Anderson Landscape is owned and operated by a degreed professional in agricultural and natural resource management. Studying the terrain in Texas and the diverse types of soil and the effects that rains, flash floods, droughts and 40 degree temperature swings in one day is always at the forefront of every design and installation. Soil amendments are added when plants are installed for nutrient content. Weep holes/ports are included in retaining walls and bed borders as required for excessive water to escape as needed. Irrigation is always required for vegetation to survive here however it may only need to be a drip application to specific plants in xeriscape beds. No matter what your goal is in this climate with your landscape, Anderson Landscape has the experience and the education to implement a thriving landscape you can feel safe investing in.

Xeriscape is a form of landscape that utilizes plants and techniques that require zero to less supplemental water than natural rain.

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While it is not appropriate for every soil type and area of central Texas, xeriscape can be extremely beneficial in a mixed application for many Austin, hill country and central Texas residential and commercial landscape applications. Not only does it save water but it utilized the most native plants to this region. You can learn more here. https://agrilifelearn.tamu.edu/s/product/xeriscape-landscape-water-conservation/01t4x000004OfheAAC Anderson Landscape has been a driving force to encourage xeriscaping anywhere we don’t need greenspace for paws or feet. Between the long droughts and continued growth in central Texas we simply don’t have the excess water to choose massive expanses of green grass over consumable clean water. Xeriscaping is more expensive to install initially as the materials are more labor intensive and costly however the long term maintenance expenses vs traditional lawn and it’s constant maintenance are quickly seen as a benefit to xeriscape.