Grow Soil and Restore Habitat

Native Garden Design

Do you want to help local Pollinators, negate your carbon output, and increase your connection to the land in a meaningful way?

Ask Mist and Moss LLC to design and install a Native Habitat Garden for your unique property.

Valerie specializes in creating sustainable ecosystems that require less maintenance over time by providing habitat and beauty for all to enjoy.

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Garden Management

When we garden With Nature through the seasons we reduce care needs while increasing land health naturally.

Revitalize your garden over time through a monthly service. Health monitoring and care for herbaceous perennials and shrubs. Mist and Moss LLC removes and composts invasive plants while helping you create habitat for year round wildlife support.

For a full list of services please read below.

All work is completed with hand tools and expert knowledge.

  • Fine Detailing

  • Native Plant ID

  • Naturalistic Pruning

  • Weeding / Composting

  • Planting and seeding

  • Plant Sourcing

  • Sustainable Mulching: Living, Leaf, Chop and Drop

  • Support the full life cycle of our native pollinators through 100 % organic gardening and recommending host plant species

  • Invasive plant removal via manual pulling, composting, and partnering with native plants to outcompete the invasives.

  • Year round garden planning and land care.

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Naturalistic Pruning

Pruning for overall health and increased flower / fruit production that allows herbaceous perennials, shrubs, and small trees to express themselves in a natural shape as they grow.

Have your shrubs suffered from poor pruning methods in the past? Naturalistic pruning can aid recovery by applying rejuvenating techniques.

Mist and Moss LLC is trained in the proper techniques as to when and how to prune depending on species to keep your plants looking natural, healthy, and artfully shaped.

Sustainable Mulching

Soil is alive, Mist and Moss LLC will keep your soil food web fed with a variety of sustainable mulch types that suppress weeds, increase soil fertility, and create a positive effect on our climate by using plants to pull carbon from the air and store it in the ground.

Living Mulch: Low growing dense plantings that keep the soil covered and fed with root exudates and leaves that compost in place.

Leaf Mulch: This is the highest quality mulch material we can use. When trees grow their leaves, they pull up nutrients from deep in the earth, and when we apply those dried leaves to the base of our trees, and to our garden beds, we return those nutrients to be used again in a closed loop ecosystem. In addition to promoting soil health, leaves provide vital habitat to a wide array of wildlife including pollinators who keep our agriculture systems working. Leaf mulch is beautiful and is one the most effective and sustainable ways to suppress weeds.

Chop and Drop Mulch: Trimmings of cut organic matter that are applied to the soil: Think spent flower buds, cuttings of herbaceous ground covers, and removed weeds.

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  • Client

    I don’t normally provide recommendations but Valerie revived my garden area with new plants. And now I’m so thrilled. It’s a pleasure to know Valerie and her expertise and knowledge made for a positive experience. I will continue to use her in order to help my beds thrive. Thank you Valerie. You are a joy to work with.

  • Client

    Valerie is my garden designer/caretaker; she is connected and a wealth of knowledge about native habitats that enhance the coexistence of all living creatures. For a year, Valerie has been tending to my land removing invasives and redesigning gardens and adding fruit trees.

    If you live in Western North Carolina, I highly recommend you reach out to Mist and Moss LLC.

  • Client

    Valerie is as special as they come! She has a deep love and connection to earth and those things that grow from it. Her knowledge and skills are above and beyond. She has a definite eye for beauty and placement and tenderly cares for those things she touches. I highly recommend her. She has been tending to my gardens and land for a while now and it shows!

  • Client

    I’ve been utilizing Valerie (Mist and Moss LLC) for almost a year now. I can attest to her diligence, keen eye for detail and knowledge of everything she does. She has taken over what my mother and father started over 30 years ago and has maintained and, improved their garden areas around my house now. If you’re considering someone to “take charge” of your garden areas then, do yourselves a big plus and talk to her. She treats every project as if it were her own ❤️!!