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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: Mayapple
Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) is a native spring wildflower of NoVA, often found in shady forests and along stream banks. It has large, umbrella-like leaves and produces a single white flower hidden beneath them, which ripens into a small, yellow fruit by early summer. While the ripe fruit is mildly edible (and resembling a small apple), the rest of the plant is toxic.
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Horticultural Tip of the Month: Planting
Finishing spring planting in May is ideal due to the soil finally warming up, promoting strong root growth and significantly reducing the risk of frost damage. The longer days and increased sunlight helps plants establish quickly. It's also early enough for most plants to significantly mature before the heat of summer sets in.
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Invasive Plant of the Month: English Ivy
English ivy (Hedera helix) is an extremely fast-growing, evergreen vine commonly found here in NoVA, completely covering trees, walls, and forest floors. Though it provides year-round greenery, it is an aggressively invasive species that can easily smother native plants and damage tree bark. Its rapid growth and development makes it a large threat to our local ecosystem.