Beaverdam
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Garden Design & Build · Asheville, NC
Gardens that look like they have always been there.
Design-and-build gardens for Blue Ridge properties. Drawn on paper, planted by the same crew, maintained for the first two seasons while it establishes.
Illustrative photographs — Delaney Van / Unsplash. Not this business's own work.
Inside Foxglove Stone
Take a closer look.
Garden design
Stone & hardscape
Native planting
Based inAsheville, NC
Illustrative photographs — Ronin / Unsplash, Annie Spratt / Unsplash, Jan Canty / Unsplash, FRAEM GmbH / Unsplash. Not this business's own work.
How a garden gets made
4 stages. The order matters more than the speed.
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01
Walk the ground
Slope, sun, drainage and what is already worth keeping. Usually an hour, on site.
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02
Draw it
A measured plan and planting schedule. Yours to build with anyone.
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03
Build
Hard landscape first, then soil, then planting — in that order, always.
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04
Establish
Scheduled visits through the first two growing seasons, then a written handover.
Questions
Do you take the design without the build?
Yes. The drawings are yours and you can take them to any contractor.
When is the right time to start?
Hard landscape runs year-round here. Planting goes in autumn or early spring so roots take before summer.
Will it look finished on day one?
No, and it should not. Plants go in at a size that establishes. Year three is what the drawing shows.
Services
- Garden design
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Survey, planting plan and a drawn layout you keep, whether or not we build it.
Survey · Planting plan · Drawings
- Stone & hardscape
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Dry-stack walls, bluestone terraces, steps cut to the slope rather than fighting it.
Dry stack · Bluestone · Steps
- Native planting
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Species chosen for this elevation and this much shade, not for a catalogue photo.
Natives · Pollinator · Shade
- Drainage & grading
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Where the water goes decides whether the garden survives. This usually comes first.
French drain · Regrade · Dry creek
- Establishment care
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Two seasons of scheduled visits while roots take, then we hand it over.
Season one · Season two · Handover
Gardens
Kenilworth
Illustrative photograph — Annie Spratt / Unsplash. Not this business's own work.
Montford
Illustrative photograph — Jan Canty / Unsplash. Not this business's own work.
Woodland edge planting
Fairview
Courtyard rebuild
West Asheville
A small studio: one designer, one build crew, a limited number of gardens a year.
Where we work
AshevilleBlack MountainWeavervilleFairviewHendersonville
Studio in Asheville, NC