Madeline Mayhood

1 week ago | virginialiving.com | Madeline Mayhood

The 2-acre educational garden at Roanoke's Virginia Western Community College welcomes its newest addition: the Sunny Meadow Native Garden. The carefully curated space, transformed from a former conifer patch, showcases Southwest Virginia's native plant species. After extensive research and planning, students, staff, and volunteers brought the vision to life in spring 2024, creating a vibrant showcase of regional biodiversity and native plants.

1 week ago | virginialiving.com | Nelson Byrd Woltz |Madeline Mayhood

The Land is Full, by Nelson Byrd Woltz. The Monacelli Press, 2024The latest book by Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW), the renowned landscape architecture firm in Charlottesville, is a celebration of parks and public gardens whose designs reflect the land's histories.

1 week ago | virginialiving.com | Madeline Mayhood

In Colonial America, a grand garden was the ultimate status symbol-the 18th century equivalent of a Lamborghini. So when archaeologists at Colonial Williamsburg uncovered John Custis IV's property, they struck horticultural gold: the remains of a football field-sized garden alongside his Jacobean manor house. Custis, a tobacco magnate and Martha Washington's first father-in-law, went all out.

2 weeks ago | virginialiving.com | Madeline Mayhood

The backyard garden of longtime American Horticultural Society volunteer Clara Plein is the inspiration for a posthumously named garden at the AHS headquarters at River Farm in Alexandria. Dedicated last summer, the Clara B.

2 weeks ago | virginialiving.com | Madeline Mayhood

As gardens spring back to life, having the right stuff makes all the difference. We've curated this season's most innovative and reliable garden essentials-from boots and blooms to balms and bags. Hunter Boots bring serious protection against garden muck. These full-height, 100 percent waterproof warriors stop debris from sneaking in, unlike ankle boots that collect every leaf and twig.