Asheville garden center & café
Plants, coffee and good advice, all in one place
Wander the nursery, have breakfast in our greenhouse café, and when you’re ready for something bigger, our landscape crew can design and build it.
- 1,500+Plants in stock every week
- 4.9★From 320+ Google reviews
- 1,200+Landscaping projects since 2009
- 7 daysOpen every day of the week
Three reasons to visit
A garden center, a café and a landscape crew
Come for a coffee and leave with a fern. Or start with a free design visit and let us build the whole yard.
Garden center
Native perennials, trees and shrubs, houseplants, pots and soil, with staff who garden here too.
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Greenhouse café
Breakfast, lunch and local coffee among the ferns, with a patio for warm days and dogs.
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Landscaping
Design, stone patios, planting and seasonal care across Buncombe County, from one crew.
Landscaping services
New in the shop
Order online and pick up at the café counter, or have it shipped.
Spring bulb collection
$24.00Forty tulip, daffodil and crocus bulbs chosen to bloom one after another from March to May.
Satin pothos
From $18.00Silver-splashed leaves that trail from a shelf or basket. Easy, forgiving and happy in low light.
Native fern trio
$32.00Christmas fern, maidenhair and lady fern in quart pots, for the shady spot nothing else likes.
Fernbrook house coffee
$16.00The blend we pour in the café: chocolate, toasted nuts and a little cherry. 12 ounces, roasted in Weaverville.
- Sold out
Meadow honey
$14.00Wildflower honey from the hives in our meadow. Sold out until next summer’s harvest.
Heirloom tomato seed collection
$12.00Five varieties that do well in our mountain summers, 25 seeds of each.
Native wildflower seed mix
From $9.50Fourteen wildflowers native to the Southern Appalachians, for bees, butterflies and birds.
Seed-starting kit
$28.00Everything to start 24 seedlings on a windowsill: tray, dome, pots and seed-starting mix.
Come in for the plants, the coffee, good advice
Why Fernbrook
A family business that grew a little at a time
Owen and Lucia Brooks started Fernbrook in 2009 as a landscaping crew with one truck. Clients kept asking where to buy the plants we used, so in 2016 we opened a small nursery in our yard on Laurel Avenue.
The café came next, in the old greenhouse, because people stayed so long talking plants that they needed somewhere to sit. The people who grow the plants will help you choose them, and the crew that plants them is just out back.
- Plants chosen for Western North Carolina
- Free advice at the Saturday garden clinic
- Licensed NC Landscape Contractor
Coming up at Fernbrook
Workshops, garden walks, music on the patio and our seasonal plant sales. Most are free.
Greenhouse Story Time
Every other Wednesday · 10am – 10:45am
Picture books about seeds, bugs and weather for ages 2 to 6, then planting a seed to take home.
Fall Plant Sale
Saturday, November 7, 2026 · 9am – 2pm
Native perennials, shrubs and spring bulbs from our nursery partners, with our designers on hand to help you choose.
Music on the Patio
Every Saturday through Nov 21, 2026 · 11am – 1pm
Local acoustic players on the café patio while you have brunch. Moves into the greenhouse if it rains.
A look around
The nursery, the café and a few of the gardens we’ve built.
What neighbors say
- ★★★★★
“Best breakfast spot in town, and I always leave with a plant I didn’t plan to buy. The lavender honey latte is worth the drive.”
Jen L.Café regularReview on Google - ★★★★★
“They turned a muddy slope behind our house into terraced beds and a patio we use every single evening. Crew was on time every day and left the site spotless.”
Dana R.Patio & terraced beds, North AshevilleReview on Google - ★★★★★
“Dev spent twenty minutes helping me pick ferns for a shady corner, then wrote down how to plant them. Every one of them made it through August.”
Carlos M.Garden center, WeavervilleReview on Google
Licensed, certified and local
- NC Certified Landscape Contractor
- NC Certified Plant Professional
- Family owned since 2009
- 1-year plant guarantee
Questions we hear most
Is there parking?
Yes, free parking right out front, with two accessible spaces by the café door. On busy Saturdays there’s more along Laurel Avenue.
Can I bring my dog?
Leashed dogs are welcome in the nursery and on the café patio, and we keep water bowls by the door. Inside the café, only service animals, because of health rules.
Are you open every day?
Yes. The garden center and café are open seven days a week, with shorter hours in January and February. Holiday closings are on our Contact page.
Come see us on Laurel Avenue
Open every day, with free parking, a play corner for kids and water bowls for dogs on the patio.