Native Plants for Virginia’s Ridge and Valley
In May 2023, the Plant Ridge and Valley Natives Campaign published the first edition of Plant Ridge & Valley Natives: A Gardener’s Guide to Virginia’s Ridge & Valley Native Plants. This full-color, spiral-bound book contains 144 pages of beautiful native plants suitable to using in a home garden or commercial landscape to provide not only beauty, but also high ecological value for our local ecosystems. The Guide includes six garden designs created specifically for us by ecologist Iara Lacher and garden designer Anne Elise Lintelman.
A second and expanded edition has recently been published. Lengthened to 172 pages, the revised Guide includes an index and glossary, plant lists for gardening challenges such as deer, black walnut, and drought, and additional species added to the lists of wildflowers, shrubs, trees, and vines.
Purchase a Hardcopy of the Ridge & Valley Native Plant Guide
On-line from the Virginia Native Plant Society at https://vnps.org/virginia-native-plant-guides/
In-person from campaign partners at various native plant sales events within the Ridge & Valley region.
In-person at the following retail outlets:
Edith J. Carrier Arboretum,
Harrisonburg *Bonfire Bookstore, Woodstock
JMD Garden Center, Staunton*
Milmont Greenhouses, Stuart’s Draft *
Secret Garden Supply Co., Staunton
Seven Bends Plant Nursery, Berryville *
Stone Soup Bookstore, Waynesboro
Waynesboro Landscape & Garden Center, Waynesboro*
Woodstock Gardens, Woodstock *
Yellow House Natives, Berryville *
* These retail outlets also have native plants for sale during the growing season.
Growing Native Plants in the Virginia Highlands
A companion to Plant Ridge & Valley Natives: A Gardener’s Guide to Virginia’s Ridge & Valley Native Plants that focuses on wildflowers and ferns of the high elevation counties of Allegheny, Bath and Highland.
