Organic Gardening and Design

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 us to design and install a Native Garden for your unique property!

We specialize in creating sustainable ecosystems that require less maintenance over time by providing habitat and beauty for all to enjoy!

Valerie’s Design Specialities are:

Native Habitat Gardens

Forest Gardens (Perennial Foods and Herbs)

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Garden Maintenance

When we Garden With Nature Through the Seasons we reduce Maintenance needs while promoting Health and Natural Beauty.

All work is implemented with Hand Tools and Ecological Literacy

  • Fine Detailing

  • Deadheading

  • Naturalistic Pruning

  • Weeding

  • Water as needed

  • Planting and seeding

  • Sustainable Mulching: Living, Green, and Leaf

  • 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!

    Ask us about our Jewelweed (Impatiens Capensis) project where we are successfully eliminating Japanese stilt-grass in partial shade mesic environments.

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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? We can help them recover with our rejuvenating pruning techniques.

We are 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! We 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 Mulches are low growing dense plantings that keep the soil covered and fed with root exudates and leaves that compost in place: Think native sedges, nepta, and clovers!

Green Mulching Also referred to as “Chop and Drop” are trimmings of cut organic matter that are applied to the soil and are artfully placed to maintain garden aesthetics: Think deadhead cuttings of spent flower buds, trimmings of herbaceous ground covers, and removed weeds.

Leaf Mulching from trees is one of the highest quality mulch options 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!

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  • L. C.

    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 LCC.

    Every human being aspires for health and wellbeing. True health fundamentally means to be in tune with nature, both inner and outer. – SADGURU

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  • L. G.

    We’ve had such a fantastic experience working with Valerie! She's completely transformed our yard in ways that feel both beautiful and thoughtful. First, she helped get our overgrown bushes back under control — what used to feel chaotic and unmanageable now looks intentional, healthy, and well-shaped. The difference is incredible. One of the most exciting parts of the project has been the meadow and spring bulb planting . We’re eagerly waiting to see it fully emerge this spring — it already has so much promise, and we can’t wait to watch it come to life. She also designed a kitchen garden for us that we hope to get planted this spring - It’s functional, well-planned, and will fit seamlessly into the rest of our landscape.

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  • G. C.

    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 ❤️!!

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  • V. M.

    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!

    - Facebook Review