Landscape Designers Serving the Asheville Area
14 local businesses listed
Landscaping on a mountain lot starts with water and gravity, not plants. Terracing, retaining walls, and drainage typically come before anything gets planted, because a slope that sheds water toward the house or washes topsoil into the street will undo the planting plan within a season.
The plant side has its own local rules. Deer pressure is real in most Asheville neighborhoods, and a design that ignores it becomes an expensive salad bar. Native plantings tend to do better on steep, thin mountain soil than imported ornamentals, and they hold slopes better too.
The designers listed work in Asheville, Weaverville, and Fairview, on everything from planting plans to full outdoor living projects.
Ask whether they design only or design and install. Both models work, but they change how the project runs — a designer who hands off to a separate crew needs a clear plan and clear supervision, and it’s better to know which arrangement you’re in before the first plant goes in the ground.
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B.B. Barns Garden Center, Nursery & Landscaping
B.B. Barns has been on Sweeten Creek Road in Arden since 1988, and it is two businesses under one roof: a garden center you can browse on a Saturday, and a landscape design and installation company you would hire for a whole yard. That combination is the useful part. You can buy a few perennials, or you can have someone walk your property and tell you why nothing will grow on that bank. They offer garden coaching for people who want to do the work themselves but would rather not learn by killing things first. The plant side covers indoor and outdoor plants, shrubs, and trees, with real depth in natives and pollinator planting. The landscape side handles design and consultation, installation, seasonal container work, and ongoing landscape management. Landscaping inquiries go through a separate line at (828) 684-9190.
- Residential
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BareRoot Designs
BareRoot Designs, PLLC works primarily in Asheville offering landscape design and consulting services for residential and small scale commercial developments.
- Commercial
- Residential
Bill's Tree & Landscaping
Bill's Tree & Landscaping has worked out of Ben Ray Lane in Hendersonville for more than four decades — family-owned across that whole run, which in tree work counts for something. Longevity usually means the equipment is paid for and the crew knows the terrain. They cover both halves of the job. Tree side: removal, trimming and pruning, stump grinding, storm damage cleanup, emergency calls, and lot clearing. Landscape side: design and installation, hardscaping, grading and drainage, mulching, and seasonal maintenance. Residential and commercial, open seven days. Service area covers Henderson, Buncombe, and Transylvania counties — Hendersonville, Flat Rock, Laurel Park, Etowah, Mills River, Fletcher, Arden, Saluda, Brevard, and Asheville.
- Residential
- Commercial
- 24/7 Emergency
Carolina Outdoor Lighting
Carolina Outdoor Lighting is a Leicester company that designs and installs low-voltage outdoor lighting systems — landscape, architectural, and path lighting — along with outdoor audio. The business is built around design rather than fixture-swapping: they lay out the scheme, install it, then maintain and upgrade systems over time as fixtures age or the landscape grows in. That maintenance side is worth knowing about, since most outdoor lighting problems a few years after install are transformer, connection, or overgrowth issues rather than fixture failures. They cover 15 Western North Carolina counties, including Buncombe, Henderson, and Transylvania.
- Residential
- Commercial
EcoLawns Unlimited
EcoLawns Unlimited works out of both Asheville and Waynesville, covering West Asheville, Beaverdam, Crest Mountain, Lake Junaluska, and Richland Creek. The company splits into two things a homeowner might want. One is recurring lawn maintenance — mowing, trimming, aeration, fertilization, seeding, and weed control. The other is design and installation: trees, shrubs, native plantings, and mulching. Native plants get real attention on their service list, which is a sensible position in this region. Established natives handle the rainfall swings here better than most ornamentals and take less watering once they are in. Leaf removal is its own line item, and anyone under mature hardwoods will understand why it needs to be.
- Residential
- Green Building
- Open now
Gardens for Living
With a focus on sustainable practices and personalized designs, Gardens For Living offers a range of services to enhance residential and commercial properties in the Asheville area.
- Commercial
- Green Building
- Residential
Greenspan Landscaping Company
Greenspan Landscaping Company is a family-owned, licensed and insured landscaping and hardscaping outfit based on Azalea Avenue in Black Mountain, working across the Swannanoa Valley and greater Asheville since 2015. The range is wider than most lawn-and-shrub companies. Alongside design, planting, and maintenance, they build pavers and patios, retaining walls, and stonework, and take on grading, hauling, and drainage systems — the last of which matters on WNC lots where the water has to go somewhere before it goes into the crawlspace. They also install water features and aquascapes, and handle tree work in-house. Residential and commercial both.
- Residential
- Commercial
Hambleton Lawn Care & Maintenance, Inc.
Hambleton runs lawn care and landscaping from Soco Road in Maggie Valley, covering Maggie Valley, Waynesville, Clyde, Canton, and the surrounding area. They handle recurring maintenance — mowing, trimming, fertilization, mulching, pruning, and seasonal work — and also build hardscapes: patios, retaining walls, and water features. They run their own garden center, so plant material for a design job comes from stock they grow rather than whatever a wholesaler has that week. Retaining walls deserve a specific mention in this county. On a sloped lot a wall is doing structural work, and the difference between one built with proper drainage behind it and one built without shows up three winters later.
- Residential
Integrated Landscaping of Asheville
We are happy to drive to your Asheville area home to provide a thorough and expert assessment and consultation at no charge for home owners (which often includes a complimentary itemized proposal as well.) Please contact us by filling out the “Contact Us” form and we will get in touch with you. Alternatively, you can e-mail us at [email protected].
M&S Landscaping and Tree Service
M&S Landscaping and Tree Service is a family-owned company on Dogwood Lane in Canton, working Haywood County and out into Buncombe and Jackson. They handle both sides of the yard: tree removal, trimming, pruning, stump grinding, and storm cleanup, plus landscaping and lawn maintenance. On a property where a removal leaves a torn-up lawn behind, having one crew close it out is worth something. Coverage runs through Canton, Clyde, Waynesville, and Maggie Valley.
- Residential
- Commercial
- Open now
Natural Scapes
Natural Scapes is an Asheville landscaping company offering landscape design and build since 1997. We build patios, retaining walls, stonework, drainage systems, and plantings designed for mountain lots across Asheville and Western North Carolina. Homeowners choose Natural Scapes for thoughtful design, quality craftsmanship, and local knowledge of Buncombe County properties.
- Residential
- Commercial
RootWise Landscape Solutions, LLC
RootWise Landscape Solutions works out of Luther Cove Road in Candler, handling design, installation, and maintenance for residential and commercial properties across the Asheville area. The emphasis is on sustainable practice — preserving what an outdoor space already has rather than clearing and starting over. On a wooded Candler lot with mature trees and existing grade, that is usually the cheaper approach as well as the better-looking one. Services run from full landscape design and planting through retaining walls and ongoing lawn maintenance.
- Residential
- Commercial
- Green Building
