The photo below is an example of a naturally-occurring disease resistant American Elm. This particular Elm is growing in the rather unusual location of in a concrete bulkhead adjacent to the Potomac River in Old Town Alexandria. I can’t tell you the excitement I felt when I spotted it. More on the comeback of American [...]

For riotous fall color, it’s hard to beat our own charming little native understory tree, Sassafras albidum: I love this tree and try to conserve it whenever I find it growing naturally in a client’s landscape. photo by Dendroica cerulea

A few ‘after’ photos of the cleanup work we did last week:

After my weekly business networking meeting I headed over for a full day of landscape restoration on the grounds of The National Wildlife Foundation‘s headquarters in Reston, VA. Arriving early, I was met with an army of organizers and support already on site and raring to go. Clearly, a great number of people did an [...]

Recently I was approached by Albert Short, President of Harmony Ponds in Fairfax, VA. Harmony Ponds is one of the premier water feature design/build/maintain firms in the Midatlantic region; Al’s projects include the fountains and other water features for the largest expansion to date of the Virginia Museum in Richmond, as well as the Martin [...]

This week in the garden: Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’ Forest Pansy is a lovely red-leaved variety of our charming Redbud Ginkgo biloba ‘Princeton Sentry’ The newly emerging leaves are like miniature versions of the fully matured leaves, apple green and thinner though… Magnolia ‘Elizabeth’ One of my favorite Magnolias, the best yellow I think– not [...]