We received the initial mockup of our landscape design and I’m so excited to share the list of Virginia native plants that we picked to grow and thrive in our front yard. We have exactly 279 plants going in during phase I, which is the area along the foundation and side of our front yard. We’ve had a ton of plants and plant plugs coming our way this week and the majority of them are coming from nurseries that specialize in plants indigenous to our area and use only the native straight species (as opposed to cultivators) of plants. From what I’m learning, cultivators are a vegetative clone of one another and have lost their genetic diversity. The straight species of native plants have gone through the natural reproductive process and considered to be healthy and more attractive to pollinators. I can’t wait to see everything grow!

Perennials

Shrubs

Ornamental Grasses

Plant Details

Photography by MUN Botanical Garden, Gerrie Veenstra, Pleasant Run Nursery, D. Ramsey, Shady Acres Nursery, Hillary Sowa, Proven Winners Inc., Robert Flogaus-Faust, Ryan Hodnett, Walter Siegmund, Steven Stang, LiDonni Nursery, Maidy Martinez, North Creek Nurseries, Hoffman Nursery, David Stang, Linda Engstrom, J. Cillas, M. Manuel, Derek Ramsey, Anneli Salo, F. Reynolds, Chalbe