Tim Boone

President

From Snow Creek’s modest beginnings in 1989 to its stature at the cutting edge of green landscape and design, Tim Boone’s leadership and management have helped Snow Creek grow into a multi-million dollar landscape firm renowned for its sustainable, eco-friendly environments. Under Tim’s “design team” approach, the company has received numerous national and state awards for work ranging from lavish private residences to Volvo Corporate Headquarters and TGI Friday’s. In addition, the firm was awarded the high-profile landscaping contract for the 2006 HGTV “Dream Home” in Lake Lure, NC.

Tim’s knowledge of native plants and ecosystems stems from his childhood upbringing in a Western North Carolina agricultural family. Over the years, he has acquired deep understanding of the delicate balance between man and nature in Appalachia. Snow Creek clients benefit from Tim’s experience with designs and installations that blend harmoniously with their environment, producing a return on investment by continuously regenerating and renewing themselves.

Always seeking to grow, Tim continues to expand his credentials as a Registered Landscape Contractor with regular attendance at regional and national conferences, workshops and green events. His commitment to detail, to his clients, and to the environment are hallmarks of every Snow Creek project.

Steve Eidson

Operations Manager (Landscaping & Natural Resource Management)

Steve is an environmentalist and horticulture specialist with expertise in native plants and natural plant care. With over three decades of experience in both the public and private sectors, Steve’s work has been selected for recognition by the Southeastern Builders Association, Associated Landscape Contractors of America, Quality Forward of Asheville and The Cullowhee Native Plants Conference.

At Snow Creek, Steve directs planning, contracting, implementation, and management of selected Landscape Operations and Natural Resource projects throughout the region. His credentials as a Registered Landscape Contractor, NCAN Plant Professional, and Certified Pesticide Applicator are further enhanced by regular attendance at workshops, seminars and courses related to horticulture, natural roadside management, fire management, stream restoration and best practices for managing surface water.

After graduating with a degree in Horticulture, Steve received a studentship at Hillier’s Nursery Ltd. of Winchester, England. His career includes positions as Director of Landscape Management for Biltmore Farms, Landscape and Facilities Manager of the North Carolina Arboretum, and Grounds Supervisor/Greenhouse Manager for Western Carolina University. He has been a Consulting Horticulturist for the U.S. Forest Service and Warren Wilson College on an NRCS funded study of 68 native grasses and forbs for reintroduction to disturbed sites on the Blue Ridge Parkway. He also acted as Consulting Designer for Warren Wilson’s Environmental Studies Laboratory. Steve serves his community by volunteering with organizations such as the Asheville Greenways Citizens Advisory Committee, Transylvania Boys and Girls Club, Asheville Weed Team, and Warren Wilson College Native Grasses Crew. Most recently, he was appointed to the board of a non-profit organization providing stewardship for lands encumbered by conservation easements in the Southern Appalachians.

Shea Carrington

Operations Manager (Landscape Management & Gardening)

Shea was born and raised in Tennessee, and has been involved in landscaping in some capacity for most of his life. During high school, Shea worked for a local retail garden center/ landscaping company. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University, earning a Bachelor’s degree in History, while working as a greenskeeper on the golf course of the local country club. For three years following college, Shea owned and operated a small landscape business, which he successfully sold in order to move west and join the fight against invasive species in our public lands, primarily working in Wyoming’s Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.

Shea is committed to preserving our natural resources so that we may continue to enjoy our surroundings. He managed several crews for the government, removing exotic species and restoring the native plant populations in Grand Teton National Park, Bridger-Teton National Forest, and on the National Elk Refuge. Shea is proud to say that perhaps several thousand acres of land have been restored to health under his care and direction. Shea also worked privately in Wyoming for a commercial tree care company, specializing in insect and disease treatment and prevention, fire-wise landscaping, and selective logging. Shea earned a certification from the International Society of Arborists as a Certified Arborist as well as obtaining a Certified Plant Professional Certification from The North Carolina Association of Nurserymen.

Shea took a brief hiatus from his time out west to pursue his Master’s degree in horticulture from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. During this period, Shea worked as the groundskeeper for the local minor league baseball team, served as an intern for a large commercial landscaping company in Atlanta, and got married.

Shea enjoys the local mountain scenery from the seat of his motorcycle. He and his wife Andrea, along with their son Jackson and cow-dog Emmy, enjoy spending as much time in the woods as their busy schedules allow.

Michael Davie

Natural Resource Manager

In over 20 years as an arborist, Michael has climbed into the very top branches of his field. One of this country's handful of Master Arborists certified by the International Society of Arboriculture, and a member of the American Society of Consulting Arborists, Michael is an expert in progressive tree care and natural resource management, with extensive knowledge of native ecosystems.

Michael's passion to preserve natural resources stems from his lifelong involvement with trees and forests. His experience as an arborist includes work for botanical gardens, National Historic Sites, preserves, estates, national parks and individual residences. Michael's work for the Resource Management Department of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where he helped restore many ecologically sensitive sites, included exotic plant control, rare plant inventories and re-establishment, ozone biomonitoring, monitoring of invertebrate plots, and old-growth surveys.

Since joining Snow Creek, Michael has been involved in major projects including Richland Ridge, numerous private estates, and TGI Fridays, where Snow Creek maintains beautiful, historic sycamores, Snow Creek's mission, ethics, and approach attracted Michael, as they accord very well with his own. “We strive to work with the landscape,” he notes, “instead of just shoving things into it like a stepsister's foot into a glass slipper.”

Steven Shillinglaw

Assistant Operations Manager

Growing up in Rock Hill, SC Steven was “always outside,” spending summers in the family corn and bean fields, and winters helping his father and grandfather turn downed trees into high-grade lumber for woodworking – an early example of the sustainability that Steven and Snow Creek promote today.

In Charleston, SC Steven majored in biology at The Citadel, studying the vascular flora of the region’s wetlands and coastal plains and researching the rapid succession of marsh plant communities in abandoned rice fields. After The Citadel, Steven managed a small grading and landscaping company, developing the business side of his landscaping knowledge. At Snow Creek, Steven initiates job estimation and contracting, tracks company-wide productivity, manages project implementation, and conducts regular cost analyses to refine Snow Creek’s cost projections, to the mutual benefit of the company and its clients. In addition, Steven continues to broaden his trade knowledge in such areas storm-water management, hardscape construction (e.g. rock work, patios, etc.) and pest and disease identification.

“I work to generate numbers that deliver sound value while helping the company grow,” Steven says. “The best thing about these numbers is: they’re attached to really good work that complements and thrives in its natural environment.” Steven does likewise, enjoying outdoor adventures of all kinds with Althea, his Labrador retriever.

Rob Dull

Lead Landscape Designer

Rob is an accomplished designer with extensive experience in all phases of landscape architecture. His credentials as a NC Registered Landscape Contractor, NC Certified Plant Professional, and Certified in Permaculture Principles; make Rob uniquely qualified to create designs that are functional, aesthetically pleasing, environmentally conscious, and reflective of the greater ecosystem in which they are found.

At Snow Creek, Rob leads the design team with a focus on sustainable landscape design using native plants and local materials. He is responsible for the initial assessment of clients’ needs, from site inventory and analysis to drafting plans for grading, layout and planting specifications, and management of commercial and residential projects.

Rob’s diverse background includes everything from lawn maintenance to ownership of his own landscape design and installation company. Upon graduation from NC State with a degree in Landscape Horticulture and a focus on Landscape Design, Rob completed several internships including a summer at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems in Goldsboro. As previous owner of his own company, Rob immersed himself in the many aspects of residential landscape design and construction, including streambank/wetland restoration projects, bamboo construction, storm water rain gardens, water catchment irrigation systems, native plant utilization, invasive plant identification and removal, and several larger land-use assessments.

Rob continues to develop an approach that follows function before form, carefully considering the effect each plant or structure will have on its individual environment. From the placement of a shade tree to maximizing use of existing rainfall and resultant drainage, the end product is a plan that continues to grow in beauty and synergy with the environment over the years.

Liz Fleurant

Human Resource Manager

A native North Carolinian with over 17 years of HR experience, Liz does for Snow Creek’s people what its people do for the landscape. She fosters healthy, harmonious, sustainable growth while introducing new elements that will thrive in and enhance the evolving environment.

Liz holds a B.S. in Business from Western Carolina University and a master’s degree with honors in Human Resource Development from Clemson University. A true HR generalist, Liz is experienced in all phases of workforce planning, human resource development, compensation and benefits, employee relations and occupational health & safety. She has won numerous honors as a member of various HR teams, and an outstanding program she solely developed for a South Carolina school district was nominated for a Governor’s Award of Excellence. A lifelong learner, Liz continues her development through intensive work on her SPHR-SHRM certification, an advanced credential from the leading organization in her field.

At Snow Creek, Liz appreciates her opportunity to help make work and the workplace genuinely enjoyable and enriching. Toward these ends, she values Snow Creek’s unity of purpose and diversity of people. “I encourage organizations not to seek some theoretical standard employee,” she notes. “You wouldn’t put only one kind of plant in a garden. The same principle should apply to people.”