About
Drawing from the best of my skills and experience in natural community restoration, my own passion for native plants, and inspiration from Doug Tallamy’s, Bringing Nature Home, I launched Look for the Caterpillars! in 2016. I bring my skills as an experienced natural areas land manager and gardener to residential clients to vision, design, and install regionally native plants transforming their backyards and landscapes into more ecologically functional places for wildlife, pollinators, and people.
Services
My minimalist approach to gardening and landscaping avoids/minimizes the use of insecticides, herbicides, and fertilizers while promoting the use of regionally native plants.
- Design featuring native plants and native plant recommendations, conservation landscaping.
- Assistance in procuring natives plants.
- Gardening advice/consultation.
- Small landscaping services such as pruning, bed preparation, soil testing, planting and limited maintenance.
- Certified Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional
Native Plant Nursery
A natural extension of this business is propagating and selling native plants at my small home based nursery which offers a limited selection of native plants that do well in the urban landscape. Regionally appropriate species offered vary by year and are limited in quantity.
- Asclepias tuberosa
- Asclepias syriaca
- Solidago caesia
- Solidago nemoralis
- Chasmanthium latifolium
- Liatris spicata
- Clematis virginiana
- Cornus sericea
- Parthenocissus quinquefolia
- Rudbeckia hirta
- Monarda didyma
- Monarda fistulosa
- Baptisia australis
- Silphium perfoliatum
- Silphium terebinthinaceum
- Aqilegia canadensis
- Lonicera sempervirens
- Sedum ternatum
- Lindera benzoin
- Cornus florida
- Opuntia humifusa
If you want beautiful plants in your yard supporting our local birds, butterflies, native bees, and caterpillars then talk to me!
