Designed in conjunction with the neighboring dining terrace at Texas French Bread, this residential landscape exemplifies modern simplicity while retaining the rich texture of the Texas Hill Country though the innovative use of vernacular materials. Stacked indigenous limestone and permeable crushed limestone courts provide contrast to the weathered steel siding of residence and give way to swaths of wavy cloak ferns, flowering understory trees, flowing grasses and sedges, and evergreen hedges that help define outdoor spaces. A heritage live oak, symbol of the hill country, stands at the center of the landscape, shading both the house and the dining terrace. The desire to minimize impact to the oak was primary to the design: radar mapping of the tree’s root system informed the siting of the house, the layout of outdoors spaces, and the selection of outdoor paving materials. As a result, the house and gardens float below the tree’s canopy and above its roots. Movement and stillness, water and light are celebrated by the conveyance of harvested water into discrete site features—a quietly brimming runnel, a rain mirror bowl—and through rain gardens before feeding the roots of the heritage oak. The landscape is at once distinct and complementary to the dining terrace, private yet conscious of its public presence, and serves as the link between the dining terrace and greater neighborhood.