Houston Endowment
SUSTAINABLE NATIVE Landscape
INSTALLATION DATES: APRIL & NOVEMBER 2024
ADDRESS: 3638 WILLIA STREET, HOUSTON, TX, 77007
ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLIC? YES. LANDSCAPE BORDERS SPOTTS PARK AT BUFFALO BAYOU ON WAUGH.
Houston Endowment reached out to GO Native Landscaping in September 2023. Due to our city's recent freezes and droughts, they'd lost plants. GO Native set to work to create a design to fill in the bare spots with hardy flowering natives. After staff approved the design, GO Native worked with Houston Endowment's current landscape maintenance company to complete a first phase installation in April 2024 and a second phase in November 2024.
Houston Endowment was a pleasure to work with, which made this a fun project. We also enjoyed this project because their property offers a wide variety of sun, shade, and moisture conditions. These varying conditions meant we could choose from amongst a wide range of fascinating Texas native plants, from the water-loving Virginia Saltmarsh Mallow hibiscus that grows in standing water along the Texas coast to the Prickly Pear of much dryer Central Texas. While we prefer to work with species endemic to Harris and surrounding counties, the amount of asphalt on Willia Street and the concrete in the sidewalk and driveway created hot, desert-like conditions that needed to be accounted for.
The featured plants in photos below show growth just seven months after our first phase of planting. These were taken by Houston Endowment's Rony Canales in November 2025, and we appreciate their so generously sharing them with us.
ADDRESS: 3638 WILLIA STREET, HOUSTON, TX, 77007
ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLIC? YES. LANDSCAPE BORDERS SPOTTS PARK AT BUFFALO BAYOU ON WAUGH.
Houston Endowment reached out to GO Native Landscaping in September 2023. Due to our city's recent freezes and droughts, they'd lost plants. GO Native set to work to create a design to fill in the bare spots with hardy flowering natives. After staff approved the design, GO Native worked with Houston Endowment's current landscape maintenance company to complete a first phase installation in April 2024 and a second phase in November 2024.
Houston Endowment was a pleasure to work with, which made this a fun project. We also enjoyed this project because their property offers a wide variety of sun, shade, and moisture conditions. These varying conditions meant we could choose from amongst a wide range of fascinating Texas native plants, from the water-loving Virginia Saltmarsh Mallow hibiscus that grows in standing water along the Texas coast to the Prickly Pear of much dryer Central Texas. While we prefer to work with species endemic to Harris and surrounding counties, the amount of asphalt on Willia Street and the concrete in the sidewalk and driveway created hot, desert-like conditions that needed to be accounted for.
The featured plants in photos below show growth just seven months after our first phase of planting. These were taken by Houston Endowment's Rony Canales in November 2025, and we appreciate their so generously sharing them with us.
HOUSTON ENDOWMENT LANDSCAPE DESIGN
To create Houston Endowment's native-enhanced landscape design, GO Native Landscaping used the property's irrigation zones map as a template, an approach that saved time and lowered project costs.
Houston Endowment is working toward achieving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Certification for their facilities (a.k.a., LEED Certification). Native plants require less water and other resources to sustain, so GO Native Landscaping's designs support fulfillment of the requirements for achieving LEED Certification.
Houston Endowment is working toward achieving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Certification for their facilities (a.k.a., LEED Certification). Native plants require less water and other resources to sustain, so GO Native Landscaping's designs support fulfillment of the requirements for achieving LEED Certification.
