I just started planting Ruby Falls redbuds two years ago. We were working on a pond and landscape installation in Sperryville and I needed some special trees. I was walking the … [Read more...]

I love Forest Pansy redbuds (Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’). It’s as if someone was admiring an Eastern redbud and thought “this is a great tree, but you know what would make it … [Read more...]

Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis) is a sign to start getting excited, another winter is ending! My work as a Virginia landscape designer takes me all over Virginia, and I love … [Read more...]

There are a few trees that most people can readily identify. Birch trees are one, no doubt about it. The graceful, multi-trunk form and light, peeling bark are pretty much iconic. … [Read more...]

Common names for plants are a funny thing. They run the gamut from evocative - Queen Anne’s lace, butterfly weed - to kind of horrifying. Black chokeberry is so named because the … [Read more...]

When you say “Japanese maple” to most people, they picture a low, weeping tree, often with red or burgundy leaves trailing along the ground. There are a lot of wonderful upright … [Read more...]

Plant people often make fun of “normal people” for wanting to buy plants the way they would buy furniture. You can’t find a tree that’s relatively small, that’s native to the area, … [Read more...]

Abelia is just one example of my ongoing love affair with “old fashioned” plants. We provide landscape design and landscape installation for a lot of historic properties, … [Read more...]