Northern Neck Native Plant Co

08/19/2025

Businesses can’t post in the Virginia Native Plant Societt Facebook group (for good reason). That said, if one of our followers could share our events or specials in that group from time to time, that would be great!

08/19/2025

We are very fortunate to have been working on a property overlooking the water in the lower Northern Neck. Since late July we have planted 1,000+ plants combined along the shoreline, slope, and overlook. We’ve removed hundreds of saplings threatening slope stability and were ending our final planting phase while we wait to do a late fall/early winter pollinator seeding.

This was by far our largest project and more to come.

If you’re struggling with eroding bluffs, bare shores, or are just tired of lawns, reach out! We’d love to help.

08/19/2025

Our Irvington Store will be reopening this Saturday at our new hours: 11a - 5p.

Also, WE REACHED 1,000 FACEBOOK FOLLOWERS WITHOUT EVER BUYING AN ADVERTISEMENT SO WE ARE HAVING AN INVENTORY CLEAR OUT SALE!

08/18/2025

Business Update: we’re having a baby! Which means our hours will be changing.

We’ll be welcoming our first child next January (or December, as Chuck Berry said “You never can tell.”)

To better support my wife, we’ll be shifting our regular Irvington hours to 11a-5pm on most Saturdays. We are exploring a self service option for Sundays but haven’t finalized yet.

We really wanted to give folks regular hours they could count on but pregnancy, installation, and requests for sales from Colonial Beach to Urbanna have made it so Irvington will be most Saturdays and special sales elsewhere on the NNK/MP through the end of October.

We’re also planning a Wholesale To The Public shopping day Open House at our site in Hague for later this fall.

More to come!

08/17/2025

🚨Mountain Laurel Alert🚨

One of our growers has finally brought out the Mountain Laurel. They are listed as 3-gallon, 2’-3’ tall. They are $75/ea which includes sales tax.

Some folks have reached out to me already for buying these - I will try to find your messages. DM us if interested. Pickup in Hague or Irvington available.

08/11/2025

08/06/2025

Don’t forget to secure your 20% off discount by pre-ordering and paying in full or 10% off by pre-ordering and paying half! Window for September Pre Orders will close August 15th.

We will open up another pre-order for October next month!

08/01/2025

Our August Plant of the Month is....

GRAY GOLDENROD!

This is one of our shorter pollinators, 1'-2' and can tolerate wet or dry sites but thrives in rocky, dry soil. It's an excellent option for erosion control and stabilization as well as an aggressively expanding pollinator that wont grow too tall.

We picked up 70 small plugs (LP72) of Gray Goldenrod that will be ready for sale as Quarts in late August and Gallons in late September!

07/29/2025

We love Deltaville and Deltaville continue to show their support.

Came out for a site consult for a bare, sandy-loam bluff and moved forward with a 45-plug test planting featuring Mountain Mint, Pennsylvania Sedge, and Wild Strawberry.

As a part of the planting we also removed saplings and trimmed a few branches to let a little bit more sunlight in.

07/28/2025

We’ve been working in Northumberland County recently! This project has all the good stuff: sapling removal + native grass and perennials for erosion control!

With over 600’ x 20’ of land to cover, this strip of land overlooking the water is being methodically combed through to remove invasives, saplings, shrubs, and plant open areas with plugs, quarts, and gallons.

07/28/2025

Controversial truth that shouldnt be controversial: Trees Are The Enemies Of Shorelines

Over the last 100 years we’ve come to see trees on shorelines as fairly normal, but they’re actually contributing to erosion. Trees and large shrubs have thick roots that don’t bind soil together the way grasses and flowers do. Trees are incredibly important for the Chesapeake Bay, but they have a place and it’s not on the shores. While there are restrictions on cutting down trees on shores (usually anything over 4” in diameter), you’ll notice that most Living Shoreline projects actually involve removing trees and often request continual maintenance to remove seedlings.

This is not a call to grab the chainsaw! Instead, it’s a reminder that anyone with slopes, bluffs, shores, or riprap should be removing seedlings periodically and making sure to add grasses, ground covers, vines, and perennials to prevent erosion!

07/28/2025

Love when our clients send us Ring camera shots of Don working. We finished the Tappahannock Lawn Makeover Phase 1 over the weekend. Pretty soon we’ll be doing our first larger-scale solarization project and explore new ways to reduce lawn care while supporting pollinators.