WNC Landscaping: Quality is Our Business!

Thank you for visiting WNC Landscaping! We are proud to have been providing quality, professional landscaping services for over 50 years in western North Carolina. Our family-owned and operated business prides itself on offering one-on-one service to provide custom designs and ensure customer satisfaction. We are based in Waynesville, NC, in Haywood County, but we serve all western North Carolina counties, including Buncombe and the Greater Asheville area, Jackson, Swain, Macon, and more.

We are the longest-established and most qualified landscapers in Waynesville, NC. Landscaping your property is an investment that adds value to your property and serves as the first impression to others. Our team of licensed landscape contractors, with B.S. and/or M.S. degrees from North Carolina State University in Landscape Design and Horticulture, have expert knowledge of indigenous and area-compatible plant species, soil quality, and preparation. With over 75 years of combined experience, our certified professionals ensure landscape integrity.

We take pride in our life’s work and are grateful to our customers who refer our services to others. Our services also include custom pond and waterfall installation, which is not only functionally dependable but also artistic in design and scope. We also offer water walls for patios, porches, or even interiors. We boast one of the only CERTIFIED Irrigation Specialists in all of western North Carolina.

Another area of our business is growing North Carolina certified, pesticide-free Fraser Fir Christmas trees. We grow them on our farm and provide fresh-cut, choose ‘n cut, or dug trees for replanting. We offer a fun, family experience that is quick, convenient, and affordable. Our tree sales begin from Thanksgiving until December 24th, and we are conveniently located between Waynesville and Maggie Valley, NC, on Jonathan Creek Road, right off of I-40, Exit 20.

We encourage potential clients to research landscaping options and always inquire into professional background, experience, education, and certification. We believe you’ll find that no other landscape service is as experienced and qualified as WNC Landscaping. Take your time visiting our website, and feel free to join us as a friend on Facebook at www.facebook.com/WNC.Landscaping. Contact us at your convenience, and we’ll be ready to not only meet your landscaping needs but also your landscaping visions. Thank you!

WNC Landscaping, Inc. * 557 Hemphill Road, Waynesville, NC 28785 * 828.926.3224 * Fax: 828.926.2320 * www.wnclandscaping.com * facebook.com/WNC.Landscaping *

Fall is the Time for Planting

You have probably heard that fall is the best time of year for planting. This fact has many reasons to support it and hopefully will encourage you to contact WNC Landscaping in the greater Asheville area for some new additions, cleanups or possibly even a new look to your landscape!

Why is fall so great for planting?

• Plants continue to grow in the fall — Soil temperature and moistures levels are usually much more stable and compatible for root growth also resulting in overall plant health. This is especially important that first critical year of the plants life after planting. Although there is less overall of the plant itself from what is experienced in the spring and summer, the foundation is set for sustainability and maximum growth in the upcoming growing season.

• Easier for the Plant – Just like slowly introducing fish to a new environment, fall planting lessens transplant shock and allows the plant to build a healthy root system. With roots already established in the fall, plants are bigger in the spring and often can withstand dryer conditions during the following summer. There are also fewer pest and disease problems in the fall to deal with.

• Remember to water – The temperatures may be cooler and more comfortable, but newly planted shrubs, trees and plants need good watering, especially at the time of planting for the expanding root system. Considering an irrigation system during planting may save you time and money with your new plants until freezing weather when winterizing should take place for the system, but the benefit is having it ready and available first thing in the spring, especially if drought occurs.

• Overall landscape design — Odds are there were things you like about your landscape and things you would really like to change. Keep all things in mind and note what you’d like to plan towards for your exterior in the future. It may be you can implement some things now and some things later. Keep WNC Landscaping in mind during the fall and holiday season as well when we offer our North Carolina Certified Fraser Fir Christmas trees in a “ball ‘n burlap” option.  That means that you can purchase a dug, rather than cut tree from us to use in your home for the holidays and then replant outside as part of your landscape. We are one of only a few in western North Carolina to offer dug trees, as well as in our area of Waynesville and Maggie Valley, NC.

• Growing time – Landscape and gardening professionals know that several weeks are needed for root establishment before hard winter temperatures freeze the ground, so it’s important to call today for advice, insight and estimation for your landscape now to maximize your plant’s life and your dollar.

• Keeping it Up — It is also a good time to conduct the pruning of plants, trees and shrubs you currently have and want to keep and maintain well. WNC Landscaping can help with reshaping and maintaining your landscape as well. Thorough watering and new mulching after pruning and planting is very important. Avoiding fertilization of new plants at this time is also recommended. However, there are and should be different recommendations for your lawn which WNC Landscaping can help with!

• Fall Beauty – Typically one of the most beautiful times of the year, especially in North Carolina is the fall. It’s a time to enjoy the outside beauty of our area and the areas where we work and live. So enhancing or changing your landscape when you can most enjoy it makes sense!

Erv Evans, Extension Associate with North Carolina State University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in the Department of Horticulture wrote a good general article entitled basically, “Planting Trees and Shrubs.” The article gives good insight and explanation to the many facets of planting and lends the reader to appreciate the benefits of licensed, professional landscaping for quality and to insure the duration of landscape additions.

Call WNC Landscaping in Waynesville, NC today and let us help you enjoy fall!

WNC Landscaping, Inc. * 557 Hemphill Road, Waynesville, NC 28785 *             828.926.3224       * Fax: 828.926.2320 * www.wnclandscaping.com * facebook.com/WNC.Landscaping *