Prime Lawn, a company that started as a business plan developed for a college project, was officially established in Porter by Matt Griffin in 1999.
Originally founded as a landscaping business, over the years Prime Lawn expanded to offer various services from irrigation and drainage to lighting, property master plans, outdoor kitchens and artificial turf. In turn, the company rebranded in 2025 from Prime Lawn to Prime Patio & Landscape, Griffin said.
Staying local
Starting with two employees, today the company operates with a staff of 20 certified Interlocking Concrete Paver Institute employees.
“In the late ‘90s, while in high school, I mowed grass for another company, and that's where I learned to cut lawns. And I never really thought that was what I would end up doing. And so it just kind of evolved,” Griffin said.
In addition to his knowledge of mowing lawns, Griffin said he earned a degree in horticulture and agronomy and landscape architecture.
Along with a storefront in Porter, which opened in 2025, Griffin said Prime Patio & Landscape offers residential and commercial services in neighboring north Houston communities, including Kingwood, Atascocita, The Woodlands and Spring.
At the storefront, customers can find a material supply yard with mulch, aggregates and displays of some of the features that can be built to create outdoor sanctuaries.
Prime Patio & Landscape offers artificial turf services. (Courtesy Prime Patio & Landscape)
What's special about it?
As more people enjoy holding family gatherings at home, Prime Patio & Landscape designs outdoor patios in residential homes to offer customers their own personal sanctuary with features such as outdoor kitchens, Griffin said.
Griffin said the company has most recently encountered projects such as outdoor lighting services and porcelain tile projects.
“Porcelain tiles are really difficult to chip, and you can get them to look like concrete or wood or whatever you want, and they're really popular. And they're great because there's really very little maintenance to them, and they're slip-resistant,” Griffin said.
Projects designed by Prime Patio & Landscape range from patios to pools. (Courtesy Prime Patio & Landscape)
Other trends seen are due to the cost needed to maintain outdoor properties.
“What I'm seeing is that the cost to maintain those properties are so much greater than they used to be, and so minimizing landscape and still making it look like it's full and lush is a huge key ... and the way you do that is you manipulate your landscape design to present as if it's a lot of landscape, even though it's really not,” Griffin said.
Prime Patio & Landscape offers consultations in which customers are asked to come with questions to allow staff to form a detailed and efficient plan and maximize their investment.
