Native landscape design & build · Asheville, NC
Fern & Furrow designs native gardens, pollinator meadows and rain gardens in the Asheville mountains — then builds the stone patio you'll sit on to watch the whole thing work.
Trees, shrubs, perennials and groundcover layered for shade or sun.
Selected work · Asheville, NC
Every garden we build starts as a packet — a habitat with its own bloom window, its own insects, its own reason to sit outside. Here's what they look like once they're in the ground.
Seating, steps and a walkway aimed with low-glare fixtures, set among native plantings that hold their shape into winter.
A planted basin catching roof and driveway runoff, soaking it into the ground instead of sending it downhill.
Sun, lean soil and a mowed route that keeps the slope walkable without mowing the flowers down.
Species chosen for the light, soil and slope on site, planted dense so they close the ground in the first season.
The year, packet by packet
A native garden isn't a spring install and a summer mow. We design for the whole calendar — what emerges, what blooms, what stands through winter to feed the birds and hold the shape of the space.
Native plugs and bare-root shrubs go in as the soil warms. Rain gardens fill, drain and settle into their basins.
Coneflower, bee balm, mountain mint and asters take the garden over. This is the part you watch from the patio.
We leave the seed heads standing. Goldfinches work the meadow and the garden keeps its colour past the first cold night.
Stone, grasses and evergreens carry the design through the grey months, and low lighting keeps the paths readable after dark.
What we do
Take one or take the whole set. Most gardens start with a planting design, then grow season by season from there.
Start a projectLayered planting plans built from species that already thrive in the southern Appalachians.
Local stone set to drain, laid along the routes you already take through the yard.
Planted basins that slow, spread and soak stormwater before it leaves the property.
Low-glare light for paths, steps and the seats you use after sunset.
Cutbacks, divisions and mulch on a rhythm that suits the planting, not the calendar.
Sun, lean soil and a mowed path through a meadow that gets louder every year.
Plant your own
Tell us about the yard you have — the slope, the shade, the wet corner nobody knows what to do with. We'll walk it with you and design from there.