We’re here to ideate and to help you create

beautiful and thriving

native gardens

in Charlottesville

.

We provide high-quality native plants and professional garden coaching in Central Virginia to help you:

restore local biodiversity

attract pollinators

and build a more resilient landscape

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Grown from seed

No chemicals used

All Virginia native plants

Pollinator-friendly

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Want help with your garden? We provide:

Garden coaching

Group coaching (seasonal cohorts)

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Get to know me

Hi! I’m Emily Walz. I’m a plant person through and through — I got my start with houseplants, moved on to veggie gardens, and found my niche with native plants.

Why native plants? They carry stories of place. Asters and goldenrods and sooooo many others have been gracing the landscape in Virginia since well before Jefferson founded UVA. Today, native plants still offer to knit together the lives of people and the many creatures big and small that we walk past every day. My passion is helping people slow down enough to see the ecosystem at play.

I love teaching others how natives fit into landscapes, support pollinators and soil health, all while offering beauty that’s both meaningful and relatively low-fuss.

Let me help you discover native plants that suit your yard, lifestyle, and local ecosystem — we’ll learn, plant, and celebrate the land together.

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Blooming in my garden at the moment: Zoomed in slender mountain mint (Pycnanthimum tenuifolium) ➡️ to a zoomed out picture of the bushy growth of this magnificent Virginia native plant. Teeny tiny flowers like these are used by many of the beneficia
My car living its best life 🌱✨ a.k.a. me on my way to a client after a plant pick up at the wonderful @hillhousenativeplants
Did you know we have a columbine plant that is adapted to live here in Virginia? Her fiery colors and deep nectar pockets make her an excellent hummingbird plant.
Welp, I made it through my very first market selling my locally adapted (native to here) plants! Thanks to Dylan from @critterbutts for being my market buddy. They came through with so many supplies to make sure I was ready to sell and enjoy the mark
From start --> to --> finish. Golden ragwort's bloom season is coming to an end in my meadow, but now I get to see these little cutie puffballs!
🎶 Bluebirds in the garden make me happy 🎶
Either a Clouded sulphur or an Orange Sulphur butterfly has been flitting about the garden distracting me from my work for the last few days. Almost every day I can be found running around my yard taking pictures of fast, tiny bugs hanging out on f