Northern Neck Native Plant Co

12/20/2025

Good fences make good neighbors but Living Fences make great neighbors.

Very excited to continue work on this privacy and wildlife hedge. Southern Wax Myrtles added to the large ones planted early in 2025. They currently look mounded because additional soil and mulch will be added to level out and provide additional growth space.

Elsewhere, a row of Coastal Pepperbush was added.

Eventually (hopefully, with some convincing!) this hedge area can be converted to a no-mow area with additional smaller shrubs and pollinators added.

Reedville, VA

12/13/2025

NOW HIRING! Fight the Flood Project Manager with the Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission!

This full-time Fight the Flood Project Manager will lead day-to-day operations of a regional flood resilience program that helps coastal communities reduce risk through technical assistance, mitigation projects (such as septic upgrades and living shorelines) and funding support.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys a mix of project coordination, community engagement and environmental work, and who is comfortable working with homeowners, contractors and local partners.

The position is grant-funded with two years of funding currently secured, offers a salary range of $60,000–$70,500, includes a competitive benefits package with Virginia Retirement System (VRS) participation and Anthem Local Choice health care, supports a hybrid/remote work environment when feasible and involves local and regional travel for site visits and meetings.

To apply, submit a cover letter and résumé to jfarmer@mppdc.com by January 2, 2026 with the subject line “FTF Project Manager Application."

Read the full job description here: https://bit.ly/4pz3SI1

12/03/2025

Request For Input!

As we plan for next year, we’ve pondered what more we could be doing to expand native biodiversity on the charitable level.

Which one of these options do you like? Why?

A. Raise money to purchase land for restoration and rewilding.

B. Raise money for existing conservancy restoration work.

C. Donate plants and labor to churches, schools, businesses, and government offices to both reduce lawn maintenance and increase pollinators.

D. Offer a spcialty of invasive plant management

12/01/2025

Business Update:

As we wind down 2025, we want to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone who bought plants from us, sought our advice, and let us bring native plants to their land.

In our first full year of business we sold thousands of plants across the Northern Neck and even parts of Northern Virginia.

We are welcoming our first child in January (or maybe sooner?) so we will pare down our business next year and focus on a few key areas:

-Shoreline and adjacent plantings
-Wholesale (to contractors and the public) living shoreline plants
-Fewer, but more robust plant sales
-Large Tree & Shrub Installations

As always, feel free to DM, text, or email us for your native plant and rewilding solutions!

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 milkweed, 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.