Fort Worth sits on a geological seam. The eastern side of the city carries the expansive blackland clay that shifts foundations across North Texas; move west and you hit the Cross Timbers — sandier soils and limestone closer to the surface. The right approach to drainage, planting and hardscape differs meaningfully across that line, and contractors who work one side often misjudge the other. This page lists landscapers serving Fort Worth.
What Fort Worth landscapers handle
Maintenance across a long season, roughly March through November, with a hot and stressed midsummer.
Irrigation design, installation and repair — the licensed part of the trade in Texas.
Drainage and grading, especially on the clay-heavy eastern side of the city.
Native and adapted planting, with a plant palette that has to handle both 100°F summers and hard winter freezes.
Hardscape — patios, outdoor kitchens, fire features, shade structures — supported by long, usable shoulder seasons.
Licensing: what Texas actually requires
There is no statewide general landscaping licence in Texas. Mowing, planting, pruning and maintenance require no state credential, so “licensed and insured” tells you little on its own.
Irrigation is licensed and enforced. Under Texas Occupations Code Chapter 1903, anyone who sells, designs, consults on, installs, maintains, alters, repairs, services or inspects an irrigation system must hold a TCEQ licence. It requires a 40-hour training course and a six-hour exam with 70% minimum in each section, and runs for three years. Irrigation Technicians may work under a licensed irrigator’s direct supervision.
Unlicensed irrigation work is a Class C misdemeanour under §1903.251, with civil penalties reaching $5,000 per day.
Ask for the licence number on any sprinkler work — it’s legally required, easy to verify, and the single most useful check available in a state with otherwise minimal licensing.
Commercial pesticide application is licensed through the Texas Department of Agriculture. Confirm general liability and workers’ compensation coverage directly.
What’s specific to Fort Worth
Two soils, one city. The Cross Timbers boundary runs through the Fort Worth area, and it genuinely changes the job:
- Eastern and southeastern areas sit on heavier blackland-type clay — expansive, poorly draining, prone to the seasonal shrink-swell that moves foundations and heaves hardscape.
- Western and northwestern areas trend sandier with limestone closer to the surface, draining faster but offering thinner soil and rock that complicates excavation.
Ask a prospective contractor what they expect to find on your lot. Someone who works the area will answer with reference to your side of town rather than generically.
Foundation watering on the clay side. Where expansive clay dominates, North Texas homeowners commonly run soaker hoses at a consistent distance from the slab during hot dry spells, keeping soil moisture stable so the clay doesn’t shrink away from the foundation. Consistency matters more than volume, and placement matters more than either. A landscaper familiar with local clay will raise this without prompting.
Two-day watering and no daytime irrigation. Fort Worth, like its neighbours across the Metroplex, operates a twice-weekly landscape watering schedule with daytime irrigation prohibited during the warm months, days assigned by address. Confirm the current schedule and your assigned days with Fort Worth Water, since stages and specifics are periodically revised.
Designing around two watering days means deep infrequent cycles, cycle-and-soak programming so clay actually absorbs rather than sheds the water, generous mulch and sensible hydrozoning.
Heat and hard freezes. Fort Worth sits around USDA zone 8a — slightly colder on average than Dallas. Summers run past 100°F; winters bring genuine hard freezes and periodic ice storms. Plants need both tolerances, and marginal subtropicals planted during mild years tend not to survive the eventual cold snap.
Ice storm damage and tree selection. Brittle, fast-growing species split under ice load. Bradford pear is the local cautionary tale. Structural pruning of young trees and sensible species selection near structures pay off over decades.
Hail. North Texas takes serious hail, which shreds large-leafed plants and damages shade structures. It’s worth asking about material durability on any built element.
Pricing expectations
Fort Worth sod prices for 2026, from local suppliers — and see the note below on what could not be confirmed:
- From a nursery with two Fort Worth-area locations, in Euless and Benbrook, by the pallet: St. Augustine (Raleigh) $395, St. Augustine (Palmetto) $445, Bermuda $395, Zoysia $525. Individual pieces are also sold
- Delivered across the DFW metro, by the pallet (450 sq ft): Celebration Bermuda and Tifway 419 $270, TifTuf Bermuda $275, Raleigh St. Augustine $295, Palmetto St. Augustine $305, Palisades Zoysia $330, Zeon Zoysia $340, Stadium Zoysia $345, Emerald Zoysia $350
- The gap between those two lists is the point: the same grass costs meaningfully more collected from a nursery counter than delivered by the pallet from a wholesale yard. Ask which basis a quote is built on
- Sprinkler repair across DFW: a diagnostic or service call $50–$150; a broken head $50–$100 each; a leaking or broken pipe $150–$400; a valve rebuilt $100–$250 or replaced $275–$550
- Backflow replacement across DFW: a pressure vacuum breaker $600–$900; a double-check assembly $1,200–$2,000
- Irrigation work is licensed statewide. A person may not sell, design, install, maintain, alter, repair, service or inspect an irrigation system in Texas without the appropriate TCEQ licence
This page is deliberately narrower than most on this site, and it is worth explaining why. Almost every Fort Worth landscaping price found in research failed checking. One hardscape company’s figures could not be stood behind; another’s paver rate turned out to be generic guidance with no Fort Worth scope at all, alongside an unsourced claim about resale value. A backflow testing price list quoted widely for this city names no city on its page and carries a Dallas-area phone number. Rather than dress metro figures up as Fort Worth ones, what is published above is the part that genuinely is local — the sod market, where two suppliers with Fort Worth-area premises publish real counter and delivered prices — plus DFW-wide repair rates clearly labelled as such.
The sod list is more useful than it looks, because Fort Worth is a warm-season grass market where the variety decision is a water decision. Bermuda is the cheapest per pallet and the most sun-demanding; St. Augustine tolerates shade and a wider range of soils; Zoysia costs the most up front and is the slowest to establish. On a 5,000 square foot lawn the spread between the cheapest Bermuda and the dearest Zoysia is roughly $900 in material alone, before anyone touches the ground.
Two things this page does not tell you, and which you should get from the City rather than from a contractor. The watering schedule — Fort Worth runs a twice-weekly, address-keyed outdoor watering programme with a mid-day prohibition, but every version of the schedule found in research traced back to contractor pages rather than to the City, so no day assignment is stated here. And the tree ordinance — the thresholds and protected-species list that circulate for Fort Worth, including a widely repeated per-diameter-inch penalty, could not be confirmed at source. Both are free to check and expensive to get wrong.
These are ranges local landscaping companies publish for this metro rather than survey data, so treat them as a bracket to check a quote against, not a price list.
Two contract items: whether a sod quote is priced at nursery counter rates or delivered wholesale by the pallet, and your address’s watering days and any tree permit threshold, confirmed with the City rather than the contractor.
Neighborhoods served
Landscapers listed here work across Fort Worth, including Arlington Heights, Ridglea, Tanglewood, Monticello, Fairmount, Rivercrest, Berkeley Place, Westcliff, Wedgwood, Alamo Heights, Mistletoe Heights and the Cultural District.
Most also serve surrounding cities — Arlington, Keller, Southlake, Grapevine, Bedford, Hurst, Euless, Mansfield, Benbrook, Burleson, White Settlement and Weatherford.
How this directory helps
Every landscaper here is listed with business name, address and phone so you can verify them yourself.
Three questions do the sorting in Fort Worth. Ask for the TCEQ irrigator licence on any sprinkler work. Ask what soil they expect on your lot — a real answer references which side of the Cross Timbers line you’re on. And on the clay side, ask how they’d handle foundation watering through a dry August. Anyone who has worked North Texas long enough has watched a foundation move.