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Planting, stone steps, drainage and outdoor rooms for Weaverville homes, planned in our West Asheville studio and installed by the people who drew them.
Weaverville, NC
Weaverville sits just north of Asheville, and it has been a steady part of our calendar for years. Lots there tend to climb more steeply than the in-town yards around West Asheville, so most of our conversations with Weaverville owners start with grade and water long before they get to flowers.
Natural Scapes has designed and installed landscapes since 1997. If you are meeting us for the first time, our home page introduces the landscaping company in Asheville behind this work, and you can browse the full list of our landscaping services for both residential and commercial properties. What makes our Weaverville work hold together is simple: the designer who sketches your yard and the crew who builds it answer to the same owner, so nothing gets lost between the drawing and the install.
Services
Our designers begin with how your household uses the property and how the ground behaves, then draw a planting plan that respects both. Native and easy-care plants lead wherever the site allows, and each bed is placed with sun, slope and runoff in mind. Our landscape design service explains how a plan comes together.
On a hillside lot, stone is often what makes the yard usable at all: steps down to a lower level, a wall to hold a bank, a flat terrace where none existed. We build in natural stone that is meant to stay put for decades. See the stonework and hardscaping we build, or read our notes on choosing a retaining wall if a failing bank is the problem.
Rain running off a steep yard gathers speed and carries soil with it. We lean on non-invasive, sustainable fixes, such as redirecting where water travels and planting to slow it down, rather than tearing up the whole property. The guide to solving yard drainage problems walks through the options.
Easy-care landscapes have been our staple since 1997: heavy mulching, fewer plants set in the right places, and paths built to shed water. They suit owners who would rather enjoy a sloped yard than spend every weekend weeding it. There is more in our low-maintenance landscaping guide.
Outdoor kitchens, stone fire pits, fountains, bog gardens and ponds dressed with aquatic plants, stone and driftwood are all part of what we install. Start with how to plan an outdoor living space and our overview of ponds, waterfalls and other water features.
Local work
Robyn and Bruce first hired us for feature plantings and stairways in their front yard. When they later added a guest house, they came back for a second project. Reaching the new building meant crossing a steep slope that carried heavy rainwater and had real drainage trouble, and hurricane damage had already removed large trees nearby, leaving the guest house exposed.
A gravel path would have gone in faster, but it would not have lasted. So the solution became a stairway of crab-orchard stone and flagstone, intended to serve for decades, planted water-loving species along the route to absorb runoff, and set evergreen screening behind the guest house to bring back privacy, while leaving room for machinery to keep reaching the slope. The full write-up is on Robyn and Bruce's Weaverville stairway page, alongside the rest of our Asheville landscape projects.
Design decisions
Steeper ground is the first thing we plan around in Weaverville. On a hillside, steps, terraces and walls decide where people can walk and where soil stays in place, so we settle those before choosing a single plant. Our guide to landscaping a steep slope goes further.
Runoff comes next. We look for the routes water already takes across the lot and shape paths, beds and stone to cooperate with them, as on the stairway job, where planting along the route catches water instead of letting it scour the hill.
Deer are a local variable rather than a constant. How hard they browse can change from one street to the next, so we ask what has been nibbled on your property before drawing up a plant list. Our guide to deer-resistant planting lists what tends to hold up.
Storms have also cleared big trees from plenty of mountain lots. Where that opened up a view you would rather not have, evergreen screening is usually the answer, since it keeps its cover through winter. See our advice on replanting after storm damage.
Fire features
In Buncombe County, open burning falls under the Asheville-Buncombe Air Quality Agency, and it is illegal anywhere public trash collection is provided, which includes Weaverville. If a fire pit or fireplace is on your wish list, check with the Air Quality Agency about your property before we design around one. The outdoor living guide has more on the local burning rules.
Process
It starts with a walk around your property together. We study the grade, trace the water, note what the deer have been eating and how you hope to use the space. A comprehensive estimate follows, then a phone call to go through it with you before anything is scheduled. Our estimates hold: across 2025, 97% of clients were billed exactly the amount we quoted.
Most builds take somewhere between a few weeks and a couple of months, depending on size. Every job has a $20,000 minimum, which is worth knowing before you call. We hold North Carolina license CL.1862, stand behind our workmanship with a 5-year warranty, and carry a 4.9-star rating on Google.
You deal with the same small group from start to finish. Plans come from our designers, Bella Hatfield and Michelle-Marie Nelson. Plant choices are steered by Tim Jones, our horticulturalist and outdoor living consultant. Hannah Williams, our operations director, keeps the work on schedule, and owner Tommy Klein approaches every landscape with an artist's eye. Put faces to the names on our meet the team page.
Service area
Weaverville is one of several places we work. We also design and build throughout Asheville and West Asheville and across Buncombe County. For properties deeper in the mountains, read about our landscaping across Western North Carolina.
Good to know
We do take them. Weaverville is a regular part of our work just north of our West Asheville studio, and the same designers and crews handle it as handle our Asheville jobs. Every project begins with a walk of your property, so booking a consultation is the easiest first step.
Yes. The best-documented example is the stone stairway we built for Robyn and Bruce: a crab-orchard and flagstone route down a steep hill to their guest house, planted along its edges and screened with evergreens behind the building.
We start by finding where water travels today, then lay out paths, stone and beds so they work with that flow instead of against it. At the Weaverville stairway that meant permanent stone steps in place of gravel and water-loving plants along the route to soak up runoff. Our drainage guide covers other fixes.
Open burning, no. Weaverville has public trash pickup, and under Buncombe County rules, which the Asheville-Buncombe Air Quality Agency oversees, open burning is illegal wherever that service exists. Ask the Air Quality Agency what applies to your property before you plan a fire feature, and we will design around its answer.
Often, yes. Browsing pressure shifts a great deal from one street to the next between West Asheville and the higher ground toward Weaverville, so we ask what has been eaten in your yard and weight the plant list to match. Our deer-resistant planting guide has the details.
Start with a walk
Tell us what is happening on your land. We will walk it with you, look at the slope and the water, and show you what one plan for design and installation could look like. Projects start at $20,000.
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