If your weeds are already threatening to form their own HOA, turn your lawn’s cry for help into a makeover montage with the help of Trim Time Lawn & Garden. This family-owned garden center, located off N.C. 5 in Aberdeen, is fully stocked with all the perennials and annuals you’ll need to stop pretending you’re not neglectful, you’re just going “all natural.” The roots on your head? Well, those are between you and your hairdresser.
How Trim Time Lawn & Garden Can Help
This locally owned, family-run garden center is packed with trees, bushes, grasses and more that thrive in the Sandhills. Some in-stock standouts include:
- Meyer lemon trees and bushes (you deserve to feel like a coastal grandmother)
- Bushes that actually look alive, not just like a clump of branches
- Veggies and herbs for your latest resolution to cook more
- Hanging ferns and regular ferns
Inside the center, you’ll find fertilizers, plant food, tools, pest control — basically everything your yard has been begging for in silence. There’s also a selection of house plants. Outside? Bulk mulch, gravel, topsoil, decorative rock, the works. And here’s the part that’s dangerous for your wallet: they can deliver and install it.
Since the owners of Trim Time Lawn & Garden have been rooted in the community for decades, they know what actually grows here (RIP to what you planted last summer) and they’ve seen worse yards than yours … probably. So you can either keep googling “why is my plant crispy” or you can pull up, grab everything you need, and become the neighbor that shows up on Nextdoor for the right reasons. Visit 175 Shepherd Trail, Aberdeen from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday (extended Saturday hours start this week) or call 910-757-0193.
You Don’t Have the Excuse of ‘I Was Going to Do it Myself’
When the humidity starts feeling like you’d rather die than DIY, call in the calvary at McNeill’s Landscape Services, LLC. They can handle everything from basic basic landscaping to full-blown yard transformations that include runoff mitigation, erosion control, sod installation, patios, walkways and lighting. Whether you have a slope that’s plotting against your foundation or a sick Pinterest board with no actual motivation, they’ve seen it all.
They’ll help increase your backyard’s sex appeal with hardscaping (heh) like patios, retaining walls and fire pits. They’ll bring it to life with flower beds and keep them alive with irrigation. Full design and install means you don’t have to second guess anything.
The Aberdeen-based business began with just a few weekend jobs and the belief that it could grow into something bigger. In 2021, the McNeills partnered with their daughter, Kristen, and son-in-law, Jonathan Ashburn, to expand McNeill’s Landscape Services to the next level. Two years later, the family had the chance to purchase Trim Time Lawn & Garden, allowing the original owners of that business to retire.
“We all decided as a family to take on this new journey and opportunity to grow the businesses together and make it your local one-stop shop for all your landscaping and gardening needs,” Kristen says.
It’s Time to Take Action
You have two choices: keep telling yourself you’ll fix your yard “this weekend” until the lack of curb appeal becomes family lore; or visit Trim Time Lawn & Garden and become the plant parent you were meant to be. And if things still go sideways? Call McNeill’s Landscape Services, LLC to professionally erase your mistakes.
This post was produced in partnership with Trim Time Lawn & Garden and McNeill Landscaping Services. Follow Trim Time Lawn & Garden on Instagram and Facebook.
