A good local nursery should be able to guide you to plant choices. If you know nothing about local/natives, start researching.

Looks like you have a new sidewalk and stoop! Nice.

Why is that temporary (I hope) walkway outlined in random rock + the broken wood bridge misaligned with the front door? Fix that alignment first of all.

Browse for images of xeriscaping. You have some rocks available apparently but remember that rocks plopped down on grass rarely look attractive and are a maintenance nightmare.

Do you need privacy screening beside the large house next door?

Love this plan, Texas has do many great plants a lot of which live in our not Texas yard! Love all the Texas Rangers (Leucophyllum), Texas Olive (Cordia boissieri) and its smaller leaved relative Cordia parvifolia). The yuccas, agave and cactus including the not a yucca red yucca (Hesperaloe parviflora).

Heres some in our no grass yard in a rock mulch.

Lantana in front Texas olive back bush

The two Cordias

Texas Ranger with Agave Parryi in front

A nice path going to your front door would be a great start and then you can plant around that keeping in mind the mature sizes of what you plant and adding mulch.

Finally getting back to this project. The current landscaping is how the house was when we bought it. We’ve slowly gotten rid of and fixed things. We have a ton of extra flagstone and bricks to reuse. We plan on tearing down the bridge and rebuilding to create a new walkway in line with the front door. I know that xeriscaping uses a lot of rocks and alternatives to grass. We would like to attempt that, but also need to be budget friendly.