The Landscape Designers Bringing the Carolina Wild Into the Garden
Rejecting the manicured lawn, a movement of designers is building gardens from native plants that support pollinators and echo the surrounding land.
The perfect lawn is losing its grip on the Carolina imagination, and the landscape is better for it.
Beyond the lawn
A movement of landscape designers is replacing thirsty, sterile turf with gardens built from native plants — grasses, wildflowers and shrubs that belong to the region and support its wildlife.
The results are looser and more alive than the manicured ideal, changing with the seasons and humming with pollinators.
Beauty with purpose
The approach is as ecological as it is aesthetic. Native gardens require less water and no chemicals, and they restore habitat that conventional landscaping destroys.
For clients, the reward is a garden that feels rooted in its place — an extension of the surrounding Carolina landscape rather than an imposition upon it, beautiful precisely because it belongs.
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