Landscape design and seasonal tending
Native plantings, stone patios and walls, and the tending that carries a garden forward — in Asheville, North Carolina.
Now taking design consultation requests for the season ahead.
Request a consultationWhere the ground wants to go, drawn first. Grades, bed shapes, materials and plant palettes settled on paper before anything is dug.
Native plants that belong to this ground — ferns, sedges, mountain mint, oakleaf hydrangea — set where they can go on filling in on their own.
Patios, walls and steps laid from regional stone, set to the fall of the land so water goes where it should and the ground holds its shape.
A garden is not finished in a season. We come back through the year for pruning, dividing, mulching and the small corrections that keep it true.
Two views of the same ground: the planting in its first season, and the stone that holds the slope.
A garden is read slowly. The first season is mostly subtraction — the ground is cleared, the grade is corrected, and the shape of the beds is settled before anything goes in. What is planted afterwards is chosen to look like it arrived on its own.
Stone is chosen for the place it will sit in. Wall stone from the region, laid dry where water moves, and set with the fall of the slope so a patio still behaves after a hard rain. It is the part of the work that does not change with the season.
Seasonal maintenance carries the design forward: cutting back, dividing, mulching, and the small repairs that keep stone and paths true. The work changes with the weather, and the planting is allowed to go on filling in.
The beds wake. Cutting back what winter left, dividing what has crowded itself, and mulching before the heat settles in.
Holding the shape. Edges, water, and the light pruning that keeps a planting loose rather than tidy.
The planting season. New natives go in now, while the ground is still warm and the rain has returned.
Structure shows. Stone, paths and grades are best judged and mended when nothing is hiding them.
Every garden starts with a walk. Tell us about your ground and we will come out, look at the slope, the water and the light, and take it from there.
We meet you on the ground, walk it together, and talk about how you want to use it — where you sit, what you grow, what you would rather keep.
A drawn plan: grades, bed shapes, stone, and a plant palette chosen for this site, this soil and this light.
We build what we drew — then return through the year for the pruning, dividing and mulching that keep it true.
Design consultation requests start here. Tell us what you have — a bare slope, a tired lawn, a patio that no longer sits right — and we will arrange a walk of the site.
Consultations are held on site, in Asheville and the valleys and ridges around it.