Our Mission
Our passion is to create and install beautiful, sustainable gardens using plants native to the Mid-Atlantic region. Our gardens are aesthetically pleasing, well-designed native plant ecosystems that are as much of a delight to their human owners as to the creatures who live, dine and work in them.
We are a full-service, experienced landscape design group dedicated to native plants. Since 2013 we have designed hundreds of beautiful, tailored, sustainable gardens in Northern Virginia, D.C. & Maryland. Our gardens are biodiverse, and thoughtfully designed, to meet both our client’s needs and style and the conditions of their site. Although plants are our passion, we also plan and install all elements of a successful garden environment, including trails, walkways, patios and stairs.
Our philosophy is that everything in our gardens needs to work hard, providing both beauty and ecological function.
Seasonal Tips & News
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Native Plant of the Month: Coral Honeysuckle
This native vine vigorously flowers from April to November, providing nectar to hummingbirds and delight to people! This strong grower is well-behaved, with a little management, and likes a structure to wind around as it grows.
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Horticultural Tip of the Month: The Chelsea Chop
Do you have established perennials that get too tall and fall over at the end of the summer? If so, the Chelsea Chop might be for you. Monarda, solidago, asters, Joe Pye weeds, echinacea, helenium, garden phlox and rudbeckia are all great candidates for this technique, best used towards the end of May/start of June. Chop the plant growth to one third to a half of its height, and a stockier plant will grow back. Be aware that flowering will be delayed by doing this, so if it’s possible, leave some plants untouched and you’ll get a longer bloom season as well as making sure that blooms are available for nectaring insects when they expect them.
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Invasive Plant of the Month: Multiflora Rose
If you go down to the edge of the woods today, you’re sure of….seeing multiflora rose. Brought in variously for ornamental rose root stock, a living fence and erosion control, this terrible shrub now takes over the edges of our woodlands and is capable of climbling trees. To prevent further invasions, cut it down to the ground (with a good friend to hold it back for you), and dig out the roots before it sets fruit.