Native Range: Eastern North America USDA Hardiness: 4-9 Height: 48″ Growing Conditions: Full sun; moist soils This showy cultivar of one of our regionally native perennials has found its way into several of OvS’ recent gardens. Its large, vivid, plum-colored flowers steal the show when in bloom (July through frost). We were surprised however by [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Virginia’
Honest Point
Posted in Projects, tagged Chesapeake Bay, native meadows, oehme van sweden, pine forest, Plant Installation, Potomac River, salt and wind tolerant plantings, Virginia on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
With osprey circling overhead, a redwing blackbird’s bright foliage punctuating the tidal grasses beyond, and the summer sun sweltering down, OvS enjoyed a plant installation last week at a residential estate on the Northern Neck of Virginia. Over the last three years, OvSg has been involved with this 12-acre peninsular property at the point of [...]
Eric Groft at Kendale Farm
Posted in Projects, tagged Eric Groft, flower garaden, Garden Design, Harrison Wellford, honeysuckle, Iris Ceasars Brother, Kendale Farm, Lady Banksia Roses, landscape architect, landscape architecture, landscape artchitect, New American Garden, oehme van sweden, OvS, Rappahannock River, Rappahanock River, Sue Wellford, summer kitchen, The Artful Garden, vegetable garden, Virginia, washington dc on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday May 4th Eric Groft visited Harrison and Sue Wellford at Kendale Farm on the Rappahannock River in Virginia. It had been several years since Eric had a chance to review the garden and in general the garden and grounds look amazing. Kendale Farm is featured in our new book THE ARTFUL GARDEN: CREATIVE [...]
The Creation of a Native Meadow on Virginia’s Northern Neck
Posted in Projects, tagged Chesapeake Bay, Dale Overmyer, design, garden, landscape architect, landscape architecture, Larry Weaner, Marisa Scalera, meadow, Northern Neck, oehme van sweden, Potomac River, Sheila Brady, Virginia, Walnut Hill Landscape Company on November 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At one of Oehme, van Sweden’s current residential projects on the Northern Neck of Virginia, a meadow of native Bluestem grasses, goldenrod and other wildflowers dressed in rich autumnal golds, oranges, and browns meets an existing cordgrass marsh. The 12-acre peninsular estate juts into the Potomac River near its confluence with the Chesapeake Bay. Dale [...]
