Spring Care for Ecological Gardens | MHLA
Most spring cleanup advice works against ecological gardens. Here's how to approach the season if your garden is designed to support pollinators and soil health.
Most spring cleanup advice works against ecological gardens. Here's how to approach the season if your garden is designed to support pollinators and soil health.
A pollinator garden is not a collection of showy annuals. It is not a wildflower seed packet scattered across bare soil. It is not a butterfly bush in the corner…
What Is Matrix Planting? April 2, 2026 Matrix planting is a design approach built on a simple idea: plants don't naturally grow alone. In the wild, plants grow in communities.…
A NATURALISTIC POND AND TERRACE design IN fALLS CHURCH, VA Forest, Meadow, Pool, Vegetable Plot Project Location:Falls Church, Va. Awards:Winner of the 2017 Potomac ASLA Merit Award for Built Work…
A Walled courtyard in old town, alexandria A resilient garden for an active home. Project Location:Old Town Alexandria, Va. Awards:Best Residential Landscape Design Under $100,000; Washington Spaces Magazine Project Description:“The…
We dove into their 'ecological address,' identifying their level 4 ecoregion, it's associated topography, soils, site histories, and the plant and wildlife communities it now supports.
A busy and beautifully-sited farm with a commercial kitchen, farm store, pick your own berries, and sheep, is also now a very popular air BnB and wedding venue with award winning party barn.
A birder, the client for this project wanted a native plant garden to support pollinators and songbirds.
FOREST MANAGEMENT Snapshots from forested land. Project Location: Strafford, NH Project Description:A forest management plan reads a piece of land for what it already is, then sets a course for…
EDIBLE LANDSCAPE AND BACKYARD RECLAMATION Project Location:Washington, DC Project Description:This project highlights the many edible plants our client is fortunate to be able to grow on site. They include Paw…