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: Moss Phlox
A very common sight in the spring, moss phlox is also a native plant! An amazing, low, dense carpet of flowers drapes over many gardens at the moment. The rest of the year this evergreen plant provides a great groundcover. Cut back in the early spring to keep plants bushy.
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Horticultural Tip of the Month: Spring Mulching
It’s time for the big spring cleanup in our native gardens. If you’re adding mulch consider reducing the amount by doing ‘aesthetic mulching’. After weeding and cutting back old growth, leaves get gently pushed back to the back or center of the beds and a layer of undyed mulch is applied along the edges of lawns and paths. The goal is to create a pleasing, sharp contrast, while leaving precious leaf materials behind.
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Invasive Plant of the Month: Lesser Celandine
You may notice a beautiful yellow carpet on the floor of the woodland, but look closer and you may find that it’s a dense, damaging mat of lesser celandine crowding out our our spring natives. Not to be confused with native marsh marigold, this bully was originally introduced as an ornamental garden plant. For small invasions simple mechanical removal works. Have no mercy!