Landscaping in Argyle, TX

A DFW suburb that is, statistically, rural

Here is a genuinely striking fact: at the 2020 census, 99.7 percent of Argyle residents lived in territory the Census Bureau classifies as rural. Half an hour from DFW Airport.

That is the honest backbone of everything on this page. Argyle is not a subdivision town that happens to have some big lots. The town’s own description of its housing is “typical properties range from 1–2 acres, with many tracts of 5–10 acres or larger,” alongside “rolling pastures and large estate lots.”

It has grown enormously — from 90 residents in 1950 to 4,403 at the 2020 census, and considerably more since — but it has grown while keeping that character. New subdivisions are still being platted here at 2.5-acre minimum lot sizes.

Two soils, one property line

This is the most practically useful thing we can tell you about an Argyle yard, and it is not true of any neighbouring town.

We pulled USDA soil survey data for Argyle’s footprint. The two most extensive soils across town are sandy loams — Gasil and Callisburg, Eastern Cross Timbers soils weathered from the Woodbine sand formation, well to moderately well drained with moderate permeability. But Sanger, Navo, Wilson and Branyon are also widespread, and those are shrink-swell clay vertisols that behave nothing like the sandy loams.

Neighbouring towns are far more uniformly clay. Argyle straddles the boundary.

Argyle is a post oak town, and that is measurable

The Town commissioned a Texas Trees Foundation urban forest assessment based on fifty field plots. The findings are specific and useful:

• Roughly 627,500 trees, with 31.3 percent canopy cover — described in the study as good coverage for a DFW-area city
• Post oak is the single most common species at about 30.5 percent, followed by cedar elm at 22.6 percent
• Post oaks account for the largest single share of Argyle’s tree value and store more carbon than any other species here
• About 60 percent of trees are under six inches in diameter — young, and with proper care will grow into the canopy
• Oak wilt and Dutch elm disease are named as the greatest disease exposures

Why this matters for anyone doing work on your property: post oaks are unforgiving. They resent root-zone disturbance, soil compaction, grade change and overwatering. A large proportion of post oak decline around here is not disease — it is a driveway extension, a raised bed, a new irrigation zone, or a skid steer that crossed the root zone a few too many times.

On Argyle properties, the most valuable thing we do is often to tell you where not to build, dig or water.

And the calendar: do not prune oaks February through June. That is oak wilt’s high-risk window, and every oak wound gets painted immediately regardless of season.

The town will pay you to plant trees

Genuinely, and hardly anybody uses it.

Trees	Size	Max quantity	Rebate each
Residents	5-gallon	5	$50
	15-gallon	5	$100
	30-gallon	2	$250
HOAs	5-gallon	10	$50
	15-gallon	10	$100
	30-gallon	4	$250
	45-gallon / 3-inch caliper	2	$400

Funded at $10,000 a year for residents and $10,000 for HOAs, first-come first-served. The application window is October 1 to March 1.

The conditions: you must own the property, trees must be planted within town limits and within fifteen days of purchase, not within ten feet of foundations, utility easements or sight lines, and you must call DIGTESS on 811 before digging. Approved species include live oak, bur oak, cedar elm, crape myrtle, pecan, post oak, sycamore and Texas persimmon — with the town flagging some as preferred for lower water use.

Argyle is also a Tree City USA community, which is the context for all of the above.

If you are planning planting work, timing it into that window is free money. We are happy to plan around the deadline.

Your watering rules do not come from City Hall

The Town of Argyle does not supply water. Its own utility page names Argyle Water Supply Corporation as the provider and states explicitly that AWSC is not associated with the Town.

This is why searching the town website for watering days returns nothing, and why Argyle residents are frequently less certain about their restrictions than neighbours in cities with a municipal utility.

Confirm your current stage and schedule directly with AWSC on 940-464-7713. We are deliberately not publishing a schedule here — AWSC’s site did not render its current stage in a form we could verify, and a watering schedule is exactly the kind of thing that should not be guessed at.

Worth knowing separately: Cross Timbers Water Supply Corporation is headquartered in Argyle on Hickory Hill Road, and supplies Double Oak, Bartonville, Copper Canyon and parts of Highland Village and Flower Mound. CTWSC has reported that over 35 percent of its members had not completed the annual backflow testing Texas requires on irrigation systems — a useful prompt if nobody has ever tested yours.

Acreage, horses, and septic

Argyle zoning permits private stables and general farm or ranch use by right in the Agricultural, SF-2.5 and SF-1 districts — not by variance, by right. The Town describes itself as sitting within one of the largest concentrations of equestrian farms in the United States.

That changes the work:

• Paddock edges, arena surrounds and fence lines are a different maintenance job from lawn, and are priced differently
• Pasture is bush-hogged, not mowed — and quoting pasture at lawn rates is the fastest way to a number that makes no sense
• Septic drain fields constrain everything. Many acreage properties here are on on-site sewage facilities, and the drain field dictates where irrigation, trees and hardscape can go. We locate it before designing.

Crew hours, because Argyle enforces them

The town’s own permit documentation states it plainly:

Construction Hours: Mon. – Fri. 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Sat. 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM. No Work Allowed on Sundays. The Town of Argyle has a zero tolerance policy on hours and first time violators will be cited.

We schedule Argyle work inside those hours. It is worth asking any contractor whether they do.

Where we work in Argyle

Across the town, including the master-planned communities — though note that Harvest and Canyon Falls both straddle municipal lines (Harvest into Northlake, Canyon Falls into Flower Mound and Northlake), so “our Argyle service area includes Harvest and Canyon Falls” is accurate while “Harvest is in Argyle” is only half the story. Knight’s Ridge and the older acreage properties along FM 1830 and US 377 are all inside our normal radius.