Design and Build Complete Outdoor Environments
Led by horticulturist and designer Elton Liles, with 25+ years turning properties into places people actually want to be outside.
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Plant Man designs and builds complete outdoor environments, providing custom landscape design and construction, custom hardscaping, outdoor living spaces, water features, landscape lighting, and planting design across the Charlotte, NC region. I look at a landscape as a whole: the plants, stone, water, grading, lighting and construction all have to work together. From the first time I walk a property to the final plant placement, every part of the project is considered as part of the same design.
Real Projects, Real Scale
Unionville Waterfall Project
A blank-canvas property built into a multi-tier boulder waterfall, custom bluestone footbridge, and recreation pond connected to the client's own private lake.
Plaza Midwood Contemporary Garden
A failed backyard installation torn out and rebuilt in Silver Pearl limestone, with field-developed floating planters throughout.
McCoy Water Feature
A naturalistic koi waterfall and patio built in two phases, proving the same design philosophy at a $46,000 scale.
Six Ways We Build One Thing
Not six separate businesses: six components of one complete landscape.
01Landscape Design + Build
Design and construction as one practice, including stonework and site work.
02Water Features & Waterfalls
Naturalistic waterfalls, ponds, and recreational water environments.
03Patios & Outdoor Living
Paver and flagstone patios, courtyards, fire pits, and seat walls.
04Pavilions & Outdoor Kitchens
Structures built as part of the landscape, not bolted onto it.
05Landscape Lighting
Multi-zone, app-controlled lighting designed around water and stone.
06Planting Design & Horticulture
25+ years of horticultural expertise, applied to how a landscape matures.
Elton Liles
"A landscape is living art."
Horticulturist, plant collector, and landscape designer with 25+ years of hands-on experience. He's the person who walks every property, shapes every waterfall, and places every plant himself.
To the Same Standard
Elton has worked on focused projects in the $20,000 range and complete landscapes approaching $2 million. Both are built by the same practice, to the same standard: if it's not 100% right, it's 100% wrong.
Charlotte Metro & Western North Carolina
Plant Man serves the Charlotte, NC metro region (our home base) and is actively serving and growing our portfolio in Western North Carolina and the Asheville area.
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