
Award-winning designer landscapes and installation in Asheville, Black Mountain, Hendersonville, Biltmore Lake, and surrounding areas.
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Gardens for Living was founded in 1983, fueled by a passion to create landscapes that are truly exceptional in both beauty and functionality. Your lawn and garden are an extension of your home, and we pour the same skill, creativity, and experience to the outside of your living space as you do inside.
Gardens for Living expertly handles every phase of your landscaping project. Our seasoned designers create a custom outdoor space that connects your home to the beauty of the Asheville countryside, picking plants and features appropriate for your needs and your surroundings. Our installation crew brings the vision to life, and we’ll develop a maintenance plan to ensure that your landscape stays exceptional and inspiring season after season and year after year.
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John Phillips and Gardens for Living completed a project at our mountain home including landscaping, building paths and a fire pit, improving a drainage problem, and building a large retention wall (done by his brother James). In all our interactions, we found John to be knowledgeable, creative and honest. The finished work is beautiful and we are thrilled! We give John and his company our highest recommendation.
Luis and Nikki C.
John, Shane and their staff completely remodeled our landscape (if you could call it that before they came) this summer. Unbelievable transformation. They were able to use many of the plants and hardscape items already in place while adding new elements to give our urban home a modern outdoor feel. They were very fast, thorough and we could not be happier with the results. What was once an eye sore and the “downside” of our home – is now the feature and our haven. I do not think another company in town could have done such an amazing job – especially in the short time they did it! Would (and have) recommend them to anyone from a basic spruce up to a completely new and extensive landscape.
Dan C.
“John Phillips and The Gardens for Living Team is excellent in all they do. We have worked with them for years and they are part of our team that strives and succeeds at “Exceeding Expectations”. Their work is top notch from design to finish. Gardens for Living is a company that has high levels of integrity. We highly recommend them!”
Living Stone Construction, Inc.