Point landscapes are lakeside landscapes, and the water sets the terms. Shoreline properties deal with erosion, runoff, and the way a lake property is viewed: from the house, from the water, and from the neighbor’s dock. Acid sandy soil under the pines will burn anything that wants sweet ground, and deep shade will starve anything that wants full sun. The reward is a garden that frames the lake, holds its bank, and looks intentional from every angle people actually see it. The landscapes that thrive here are built for the shoreline and the soil, and that is how we design them.
Mora Property Service designs and installs landscapes across Point and the surrounding area. Call 903-279-1868 to set up a consultation.
The design process in Point
Design starts with a walk of the property: how the light moves through the canopy, where water goes when it rains, what the soil is doing, and how the property gets used. On waterfront lots, the walk includes the shoreline: how the bank is holding, where runoff enters the lake, and what the view needs from the house side.
From there comes a planting plan for shoreline living: bed shapes that work with the lot, species for open sun and acid lakeside soil, mature sizes, and every material specified. The plan is approved before ordering.
Installation that lasts under canopy and on the water
Installation is where landscapes succeed or fail. Beds get cut clean, acid soil gets amended, and plants go in at the right depth and spacing for their mature size. Mulch goes down to hold moisture without smothering roots. We install trees, shrubs, ornamental grasses, and shade perennials chosen to handle Point’s woodland light, humidity, and soil: hydrangeas, hollies, magnolias, yaupon, ferns, and native selections that look at home in the pines.
Shoreline planting and erosion control
A lake bank that is not planted moves every storm, and once it starts, it keeps going. We address shoreline erosion with plantings that hold soil, ground covers that knit the bank, and grading that manages where water enters. It is practical work that protects the property and the water at the same time, and it can look like a garden while it does it.
Privacy plantings and screening
Screening requests are constant on the Point peninsula: a neighbor, a road, a rental next door. Privacy plantings follow their own rules here, evergreen or dense enough to work year-round, fast enough to matter, and spaced so they never crowd the fence or foundation at maturity. The result reads as landscape, not a hedge wall.
Commercial and hospitality landscapes
Point’s small commercial properties, lodges, and rental cabins use landscape design for entries, courtyards, and color rotations that survive guest traffic. Installs are quoted for durability and low maintenance, and they can fold into your property contract.
After the install
Shoreline plantings live on their first season. We set watering schedules for the open-sun beds, and clients can pair installation with maintenance so the crew that built them keeps them.
Related services
Designs often include hardscape and depend on irrigation to keep new plantings alive through summer. See the Point service area page or our East Texas landscape overview. The same design work serves Emory properties.
Call 903-279-1868 or request a quote to start your Point design consultation.
Landscape work in Point: what we design and build
Point landscapes work where the lake meets the land — acid sandy soil on slopes that run down to Lake Tawakoni, across full-time homes, weekend places, and rentals that live on arrival-day standards. The design brief here has an extra dimension most properties never face: the plantings are also doing shoreline work. We build the full scope — beds, plantings, shade trees, mulch, color, screens, and bank stabilization — with erosion control woven into the plan from the start.
What the Point design process looks like
Design starts with a walk: sun and exposure, how the slopes drain, where the bank is moving, what the acid soil is doing, and which existing trees anchor the place. From there comes a plan — bed shapes that work with the water, selections for each exposure, sizes at maturity, materials — approved before anything is ordered. On shoreline lots, the bank plan and the landscape plan are one document.
Plant selection for lakeside ground
The palette leans on what handles acid sand, open sun, and slope: crape myrtles, vitex, and ornamental grasses for the open areas; hollies and abelias for structure; native covers and deep-rooted species for the bank. Drought tolerance leads on the sunny slopes; moisture-lovers go where the grade collects water. The plant list follows the soil map and the bank map together.
The Point planting calendar
Fall leads the planting calendar — warm soil, cool air, root growth before summer. Spring follows with watering discipline through the first hot stretch, and summer installs need irrigation designed in from day one. On rental and weekend properties, installs are timed to bookings, so the grounds are ready when guests arrive rather than mid-project.
Beds, mulch, and seasonal color in Point
Beds give the landscape its structure: shapes that suit the architecture, edges that hold on slope, and mulch that conserves water and holds the surface in place. We refresh mulch on a schedule, keep lines crisp, and rotate seasonal color where it is seen — entries, courtyards, and dock-facing spaces. On guest properties, color rotations are timed to the season.
Erosion control and shoreline planting in Point
This is the work Point landscapes are known for: banks that move every storm unless something holds them. We address shoreline erosion with grading, deep-rooted plantings that knit the soil, and ground covers that establish fast — practical work that protects the property and the water at once, and it can look like a garden while it does it.
Shade trees and long-term structure in Point
The big plantings carry the value: shade trees placed to cool the house and the dock-side spaces for decades, plus the understory that makes them feel established. We plant at mature-size spacing, select species that handle acid ground and wind, and relocate trees that are misplaced but worth keeping. The trees are the landscape’s bones.
What a Point landscape costs
The number follows the plan: bed square footage, selections, tree caliper, mulch, edging, irrigation, and any bank stabilization the slope requires. On shoreline lots, bank work is often scoped in from the first walkthrough — landscaping on a failing slope is a temporary answer. We quote in clear stages.
Common Point landscape problems we solve
The Point list: banks losing soil every storm, plantings that failed on uncorrected acid ground, beds buried in leaf drop, screens that never screened, and drainage moving toward structures instead of the lake. Each is diagnosed on the walkthrough — slope, soil, and water first, plants second.
Point landscape questions we hear
Does the design include the shoreline? Yes — bank stabilization is scoped in when the slope needs it. Can installs avoid rental bookings? Yes — timed to the calendar. When should we plant? Fall first, spring second.
