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Terra Bella Garden Design Center has the essential elements to bring your outdoor spaces to life. Stop by today to see our latest selection of trees, shrubs, mulch and more! Be sure to speak with one of our landscape design experts.

More than just a pretty space.

Terra Bella Garden Center is your source for landscaping supplies and design ideas. Conveniently located off Dorchester Road in North Charleston we strive to provide the very best in customer service. With friendly and knowledgeable advice you won’t get at big box stores we are eager to help you discover your vision for your home.

Stop by your local garden center and speak with one of our landscaping experts today or message us below for an appointment.

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Garden Center Location

We are conveniently located off Dorchester Rd at 4716 Forest Hills Dr, North Charleston, SC 29418.

Phone: 843-725-8990

Garden Center Hours- M-F 8am-5pm

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Top Quality Nursery

Our garden center includes an on-site nursery with popular varieties of shrubs, trees and plants that will thrive in our climate. We take great pride in offering the very best in quality and service. Our knowledgeable staff can help you select varieties that will work perfectly for your space and light conditions. Stop by and browse our selections today.

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Landscaping Supplies

For DIY and commercial landscapers we offer great selections of soil, mulch, fertilizer, and more. Our offerings are in keeping with today’s design trends and soil requirements for our area. Not sure what you need? We love to help explain your options to include understanding how to use the right materials so your plants will thrive in our area.

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We Plan You Plant

Many of our customers love working in the yard but simply need some help getting started. With We Plan You Plant we can help you get a great plan together for your landscape and then you can handle the installation yourself. As your local garden center resource our knowledge of current design trends, local varieties, and height space and light requirements, we can help you develop a beautiful design that will thrive for many years to come.

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Full Service Design & Installation

Our Full Service Design and Installation includes everything you need to make your outdoor space brand new. From initial concept to completion we take every aspect of your new outdoor space into consideration when planning your design. We take great pride in using only the very best in materials and varieties that will thrive in our climate. Space flow, height space and light requirements, and soil among other thiings are taken into consideration when we plan your outdoor space. Allow us to do the heavy lifting so you can enjoy planning and living in your new outdoor space.

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We would love to hear from you. If you have any questions about our products or services please fill out the form and someone will be in touch with you shortly. We can also be reached during business hours by phone at 843-725-8990

Our Team

At Terra Bella Garden Center we have an experienced team of horticultural and design experts to help you with all your home exterior garden needs. We pride ourselves on exceptional customer service and seek to provide you with advice that will help your vision come to life. Our team has an extensive understanding of the various light, soil and climate conditions that exist in our area and can help you achieve a landscape that is colorful and inviting year round.

Karsten McElfresh – Founder

Karsten McElfresh opened Terra Bella Garden Center with 15 years of hands-on experience in the green industry and a degree in Plant and Soil Science from the University of Kentucky. His career began with the unique privilege of serving in a leading turf grass management position at Indian Hill Club on Chicago’s prestigious North Shore District. In 2003, he was honored to serve on the grounds staff for the 2003 U.S. Open Golf Championship hosted by Olympia Fields Country Club, also in Chicago. Upon his arrival to Charleston, South Carolina in 2004, Karsten was proud to assume the responsibility of Golf Course Superintendent at Wild Dunes Resort, a highly respected golf destination which typically ranks in the Top 100 Golf Resorts of the United States. Karsten’s horticultural knowledge, experience and creativity has positioned him as an industry leader and influencer within the local green industry. His opinion and services are widely respected and sought-after by professionals throughout the Lowcountry. Karsten started Terra Bella with the goal of leading a company like he manages his own life: with integrity, honesty and respect for his clients. Karsten seeks to balance his creativity and passion for the outdoor environments where people live with his love for his faith, family, and friendships.

Kristian Thiem – Designer

Kristian has always had a passion for design, cooking and the outdoors. Her love of cooking led her to Charleston, where she attended Johnson and Wales University and opened a retail bakery.  An opportunity to return to school allowed her to pursue her love of the outdoors and landscapes in the horticulture program at Trident Tech, where she earned a landscape design certificate. Her designs are focused on functionality and beauty with sustainable aspects. Kristian was brought on in 2012 to build Natural Tendencies’ design division to meet the growing demand.

Darren Sheriff – Garden Center Manager

Darren is a SCNLA Certified Professional Nurseryman and a Charleston County Master Gardener. As a member of the Coastal Carolina Camellia Society as well as the founder of the Lowcountry Fruit Growers Society, Darren is currently president of both groups.  He is known as “The Citrus Guy” here in the Lowcountry as an expert in the cultivation of Citrus and currently has 55+ different varieties in his yard, mostly in containers, but some in the ground as well. He is an Exotic Tropical Fruit buff, growing things many people have never heard of, and is well versed in all other kinds of fruit as well. Darren enjoys teaching and is a blog author to be educational, sometimes funny, and hopefully always inspirational. He loves helping people with their garden problems.

Jonathan Huffman

Jonathan grew up outside of Richmond VA, then headed south, graduating from North Carolina State University with a B.S. in Horticultural Science and Landscape Design in 2006.  He started his post-grad career at the former Carolina Nurseries, Inc in Moncks Corner and managed the local plant distribution center which supplied the majority of Charleston’s Garden Centers and Landscape Contractors.  A South Carolina Certified Nursery Professional, Jonathan brings a wealth of horticultural knowledge to the Terra Bella Professionals Team, further strengthening the bond we have with our clients and maximizing the full potential of our clients properties. In his free time he enjoys traveling, cooking and spending time with friends on the water.

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Get Your Landscape Spring Ready At The Garden Center

Get Your Landscape Spring Ready At The Garden Center

By Home Gardening Advice

All you need to do to get rid of that winter gloom is to take a trip to the garden center and check out all the color you can put into your landscape for the spring season. In South Carolina, there are a ton of beautiful, colorful, and fragranced options to choose from to decorate your landscape, whether you decide to plant, hang, or display in a vase. A few top picks you can experiment with in your garden this spring are:…

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A Closer Look At LED Landscape Design Lighting

A Closer Look At LED Landscape Design Lighting

By Landscape Trends, Outdoor Living

It’s not a big secret that a lot of different elements come into play when creating a stellar landscape design. But while it’s important to spend plenty of time and attention on creating great hardscapes and landscapes with plants and features, what about the often overlooked aspect of landscaping? We’re talking about lighting, and LED lighting in particular is becoming a tremendous part of good design.   Lighting and Landscaping Just why does lighting matter at all? The bottom line…

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A Landscaping Consultant Can Help You With Year Round Outdoor Living Space

A Landscaping Consultant Can Help You With Year Round Outdoor Living Space

By Outdoor Living

For many, a home isn’t truly their own until both inside and out are everything they dreamed of. Having a great outdoor living space can give you and your loved ones a place to truly enjoy life. And with the help of a good landscaping consultant to guide you, those outdoor areas don’t have to be a summer-only feature of the home – they can be enjoyed throughout the year. No two locations are identical, of course, and talking to…

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6 Great Shrubs From Your Local Garden Center To Plant This Winter

6 Great Shrubs From Your Local Garden Center To Plant This Winter

By Home Gardening Advice

There are a lot of different ways to go about improving your overall landscaping design. South Carolina’s climate makes it possible to plant a tremendous range of plants and elevate the look of a home in a huge way. Fall and winter are often considered the best times to plant, since the summer sun and heat won’t lead to significant water shortages for plants and will help them improve their survival rate. There are numerous plants you can choose, and…

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Creative Ways To Decorate Your Christmas Tree

Creative Ways To Decorate Your Christmas Tree

By Holidays, Uncategorized

The holidays are upon us, and that means that around the country millions of people are in the process of setting up their Christmas trees. In South Carolina, almost any garden center will have trees available, and they can add something truly remarkable to anyone’s home. But instead of just picking a tree from the garden center, throwing on few lights, and adding a bit of tinsel, there are many more ways to help your tree look incredible. In fact,…

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2017 Landscape Design Trends

2017 Landscape Design Trends

By Landscape Trends

Living in Charleston is already something that can provide plenty of beauty and serenity to one’s life. After all, the natural charm of the city is famous around the country. However, elevating your home a little further is always a welcome idea, and one thing that you can pay attention to when doing so is to look at landscape design. The interior of your home is important, but being able to spend time outside and really enjoy it is vital…

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Fall is the season for PLANTING.

By Home Gardening Advice

TIME TO PLANT!! Yes, you read that right, and we do realize it is November. Many people prefer January through March, at least for us here in the south, for planting, but the fall months of September through December have distinct advantages. Lets start with us humans first. We gardeners are slowly migrating back outdoors after, in many places, record-breaking heat this summer. We love to garden, but the heat and humidity can really take a toll on the body….

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Let re-blooming Azaleas add color spring and fall.

By Shrubs

Azaleas have for time immemorial been a staple to the spring southern landscape. With more recent horticultural technology advances we now can enjoy azalea blooms during multiple seasons in the landscape. Re-blooming azaleas are a great addition to your home garden. They come in a large variety of colors to include red, white, pink, fuchsia and variegated. Encore Azaleas Encore is the most common variety of re-blooming azaleas. They will bloom best with 4-6 hours of sun and do require…

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