Northern Neck Native Plant Co

11/18/2025

Best way to reduce lawn maintenance and improve life for pollinators? Pick a section of yard to rewild or “give away” to nature aka Pollinator Pit Stop!

🌸🐝 Big news! Waynesboro Parks and Recreation has been honored with a VRPS award for our Pollinator Pit Stop program! This initiative encourages residents to create habitats for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, helping boost biodiversity and support our local ecosystems.

Thanks to our amazing community and local partners, we’re making Waynesboro’s natural spaces even more vibrant—and inspiring everyone to take an active role in protecting Virginia’s pollinators. 💚

11/16/2025

Our dedicated branch manager lives his best life when we are rewilding with leftover shrubs.

11/15/2025

Name Big Trees After Babies

This is by far our favorite thing at HQ. Whenever a friend has a new baby we plant a new big tree or name an existing big tree after them. We even make these cute signs for them.

We’re fond of Art Deco so that’s the theme we’ve stuck with. Future projects may incorporate these to identify plants and their botanical names.

Should we offer these to the public?

11/14/2025

Started the day pulling a screw out of the truck’s tire and doing a plug-and-patch. Ended the night using shims and metal wire to pop the unlock button when the truck locked accidentally with my phone and keys inside.

Thankfully the driver side door wasn’t fully closed and wood shims were able to pry it open wide enough to get a wire in there.

11/14/2025

Using the fragrant Mountain Mint (P. muticum) to help ward off carpenter bees!

11/12/2025

We have been working on some ambitious projects this year and probably none more ambitious than the rehabbing of a waterfront bluff in Northumberland County that suffered major tree loss from a variety of Oak tree diseases. (See comments for a larger explainer on the issue).

For this project we designed a ~20’ wide meadow of native flowers and grasses to function as a root-anchor for steep bank to the water. The homeowner installed a gravel walking trail bordered by shrubs and short trees. Further back and along the fence line large trees like Maples, Sycamores, and select Oaks were planted.

Next year? The other, longer side!

11/07/2025

Colonial Beach:

Tidal wetland recently cleared of Phragmite with narrow-leaf Cattails added, switchgrass and bitter panic grass added for bank stabilization, an upland meadow of Little Blue Stem, Mountain Mint, and Aromatic Aster, then finally an expansion of a soggy bottom land area with swamp milkw**d, coastal Joe Pye, and blue flag Iris.

11/04/2025

Sandy shores, back dunes, bare sand, and tidal flood prone areas all need the same thing: grasses and flowers!

It’s simple, inexpensive, and can turn any yard into a habitat!

Pics from Essex County planting on the Middle Peninsula.

10/27/2025

One reason we like to support food bank and food initiatives is the compounding social and economic benefit. The money is usually spent locally and helps local folks. Win-win

10/26/2025

Tired: Arbor vitae & Leyland cypress privacy screenings.

Wired: Mix shrub hedges of Witch Hazel, Wax Myrtle, Sweetspire, and Winterberry.

Arbor Vitae and Leyland Cypress offer little ecological value, bland color, die easily, and are fire hazards when they dry out.

We offer hedge plantings to accommodate budgets and time frames of all sizes.

10/23/2025

A homeowner gave us complete control of their suburban/subdivision yard of mostly clay, mostly full sun.

For this latest phase we added a Demonstration Garden at the base of the slope heading into the drainage ditch featuring Switchgrass, Blue Mist Flower, Swamp Milkw**d, Mountain Mint, Blue Flag Iris, and Purple Coneflower. Each is planted in its own individual section.

The tree ring had Coastal Joe Pye, NY Aster, and Black Eyed Susan’s added to the perimeter.

The yard edge had a privacy hedge row added of Wax Myrtle and Witch Hazel.

For this phase, 122 plugs, 17 quarts, and 38 gallons were planted with another 30 quarts of Swamp Milkw**d scheduled in order to complete the front slope section.

Once planted, we will apply for this property to be a registered Monarch Way Station.

Future phases will include more planter boxes and removing the w**d barrier as more plants are added.

Big shout out to Vessels Landscaping LLC for putting in the hard work of invasive grass removal
and barrier application!

10/23/2025

Sometimes we are so busy we forget to post what we’re doing!

Fall is a great time for planting large trees. We sweat less installing them!

One service we are proud to offer is competitively priced large tree installation like these locally sourced, 2” diameter Red Maple and Willow Oaks.