Need help incorporating NOVA natives in your landscape?
Local Landscape Designers
Northern Virginia landscape professionals who work almost exclusively with NoVA Natives
Native Plant Landscape Design
Elisa Meara
Also CBLP certified
Magee Design
John Magee
Asclepias Landscape Design
Hands Dirty DC
John Snellgrove (CBLP certified)
www.handsdirtydc.com
Throughout Northern Virginia
Gone Native Landscapes
Brad Motter
Watermark Woods
Julie Borneman (limited design services)
https://www.watermarkwoods.com/
Chain Bridge Native Landscapes
Barbara Ryan
Also CBLP certified
www.chainbridgenativelandscapes.com
Landscape designers with Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals certification plus a particular interest in working with native plants
(The Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional program trains people on dealing with erosion and stormwater issues while using native plants.)
Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional Directory: cblpro.org/directory
Deco Footprint
Adele Kuo
West Winds Nursery
Cecelia Palmer
Cecilia.Palmer@shadetreefarm.com
Rivas Design Landscaping
Bridget Rivas
www.rivasdesign.net
EarlySpace
Nancy Striniste (natural spaces for children)
Terra Landscape and Design
http://www.terra-landscape.com/
Kim Michels
Meadows Farms in Leesburg
Landscape designers with a particular interest in working with native plants
Lotus Design and Consulting, LLC
Beyond the Azalea, LLC
Christine Miller, Virginia Certified Horticulturalist
Blue Iris Gardens
Kristin Iris Sprangle
http://www.blueirisgardens.com/
Groundsmith Collective
https://groundsmithcollective.com/
Design InSite
Marty Hays
Leslie Solitario, River's Edge Landscaping
Leslie@riversedgelandscapes.com
Thomas Aurelio, Hidden Lane Architectural Landscapes
Projects $8000 or more
Native Havens, LLC
http://www.nativehavens.com/home.html
Service area includes Loudoun County
Sue Dingwell/VNPS
Free help
creating habitat
Would you like to turn your yard (or even your balcony) into a certified wildlife habitat? An Audubon-at-Home ambassador will walk your property with you and give you advice to get started.
Hiring a native plant landscape designer
A professional can do in a couple days what would take you a couple decades to accomplish. These folks have training and experience and need to be paid accordingly. Expect prices in this general range:
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Design and installation - $6 - $12 per square foot (more if including more expensive trees).
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Design without installation: For just one site visit and a general design, without all the details: Starts around $500.
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At the other extreme, for a detailed master plan for a quarter acre lot, including at least one site visit, a site assessment and measurments, all the plant details, and multiple conversations: starts around $2500.
It is very important to provide the designer with a property plat. Otherwise expect to pay a lot more for all that measurment and drawing to scale that they will need to do.
If you get a design from someone who works for a garden center, expect that person to be recommending the plants that they stock. Independent native plant designers are not limited in that way and will be sourcing plants from multiple sources.