In May 2023, we 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. Enlarged to 172 pages, the revised Guide includes an index and glossary, as well as plant lists for gardening challenges such as deer, black walnut, and drought. We have added to the species lists of wildflowers, shrubs, trees, and vines.
Purchase a Hardcopy
Online through the Virginia Native Plant Society (VNPS)/Shenandoah Chapter.
From campaign partners at various native plant sales events within the Ridge & Valley region.
And 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.
