Landscaping, lawn maintenance, irrigation and tree work for Alamo Heights properties.
Alamo Heights is its own city, not a San Antonio neighborhood, and that shapes a job before the first shovel goes in the ground. Tree permits, watering days and floodplain sign-offs all come from Alamo Heights City Hall rather than San Antonio or SAWS, so a crew used to working a few blocks south has to check a different set of rules here. The lots run small to moderate, in-town sized, built out from the 1890s through the 1940s, with no acreage and no gated subdivisions to speak of.
What that means in the yard is simple: canopy, not square footage, runs the show. Mature live oaks cover most back yards and plenty of the streets too, and a single tree's root zone can eat up most of a lot, so beds, patios and irrigation lines all get routed around roots instead of through them. Underneath that shade sits ordinary Central Texas ground, thin soil over limestone with shrink-swell clay in spots, so rock shows up fast on anything dug deep. Through a Hill Country summer, shaded turf and groundcover generally hold up better than a full-sun lawn forced across the whole property.
Hiring Corral Bros for a property here starts with a free, no-obligation on-site visit, usually set within 48 hours of your call. We check the tree canopy and any protected trees against current Alamo Heights permit rules, confirm the city's drought stage and watering schedule before touching a controller, and price the job around root zones and rock rather than against them. We handle landscaping and design, tree service, lawn and property maintenance, irrigation and drainage, hardscapes, lighting and grading for both homes and businesses, licensed and insured throughout.
We schedule a free, no-obligation on-site visit, usually within 48 hours of your call. Since Alamo Heights is its own incorporated city, we walk the lot to check which trees sit under the city's protected tree rules before we ever price removal or heavy pruning, because those permits come from Alamo Heights City Hall, not San Antonio. Call (737) 404-9343 to get on the schedule.
Most lots here are small to moderate in-town parcels with heavy mature live oak canopy, so usable sun, not space, is the limiting factor. A single oak's root zone can cover most of a back yard, so we lay out beds, patios and irrigation lines around those roots and hand-dig or bore runs through the canopy instead of trenching across them. Underneath the shade, expect thin soil over limestone with some shrink-swell clay.
Deep shade from mature live oaks means a lot of Alamo Heights yards do better with shade-tolerant turf, groundcover or mulched beds rather than a full-sun lawn pushed across the whole lot. We set mowing height and watering frequency by how much canopy a given section gets. Because Alamo Heights runs its own water utility, your drought stage and assigned watering day are set by the city, so we check that before programming any controller.
Yes, we do tree pruning, removal and land clearing, but the City of Alamo Heights requires and enforces its own permit for removing or pruning protected trees, separate from San Antonio's rules. We confirm current permit requirements with City Hall before scheduling cutting work on your property. If a job touches the floodplain along Olmos Creek or Olmos Basin on the west side of the city, that needs its own floodplain development permit too.
We work throughout the San Antonio area along the I-35 corridor and into the Hill Country, and Alamo Heights properties come with their own set of rules worth knowing going in, since the city is a separate municipality from San Antonio with its own zoning, tree ordinance and water utility. We are locally owned, licensed and insured, and we handle both residential and commercial properties here.
Free, no-pressure estimate from a local Bexar County crew. Call (737) 404-9343 or request a quote online.
