About Harvest Moon Gardens
Harvest Moon Gardens focus on distinctive, indigenous design plantings rooted in the botanical and diversity of the WNC mountains sets us apart from other landscaping and design companies.
Services
View a more detailed overview of our services including Outdoor Staging and Sustainable landscaping by clicking here.
Types of Gardens
Sixteen years experience and training in developing creative landscape designs comes in handy in addresses a variety of client preferences. We specialize in
Beautiful native stone work- Native and hardy mountain plants
- Handicapped accessible gardens
- Slope plantings
- Rock and sculpture gardens
- Japanese gardens
- Sign plantings for businesses and real estate development entrances
- Sustainable, drought tolerant gardens
- Hardy perennial flower and herb beds
Plants
We use a combination of native and hybrid plants mostly grown locally. In fact, many of these plants are actually grown on the Harvest Moon Gardens property. We supplement those with species we have carefully tested to be cold hardy and drought tolerant. While our region of Appalachia formerly qualified as a temperate rain forest, current climate changes make it necessary to chose species that can tolerate drier, warmer conditions. Read more about our signature plants >
Stone Work
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Qualifications:
Marsha Crites, Owner and Designer at Harvest Moon Gardens has more than 16 years experience in garden and landscape design for clients. Building on course work in design and composition, and a variety of courses and seminars on landscaping with native plants. Crites has also dabbled in watercolors most of her life.
One of the distinctive features of Harvest Moon Gardens is the hand-painted water color image of her design which replaces traditional commercial blueprints. This feature is a particularly pleasing visual aid for homeowners and business clients. The watercolor image is also an excellent tool for developers and other large scale builders as a marketing tool.
Sometimes a client will request a watercolor image of their home with the completed landscape suitable for framing. This beautiful watercolor image is also perfect to reprint for personal use as a house-warming invitation, change-of-address announcement or Christmas card.
Stone Work, Plant Propagation
We happily contract with Todd Trivette, of Merry Cove Nursery, who offers high quality, locally grown plant materials.
Todd also creates the beautiful stone walkways and patios that enhance Harvest Moon Gardens landscapes.
