Zoom Presentation “Rewilding our Landscapes”
Our March meeting of the Northern Neck Chapter of VNPS will be a Zoom presentation on Thursday, March 16th at 7 pm. Email nnvnps@gmail.com for zoom info.
Join Virginia Landscape Designer, Susan Abraham, for a presentation on using our beautiful native plants to restore landscapes ranging from small suburban gardens to large meadows and farms. Susan writes that “Our lands and waters are suffering from a host of environmental challenges. Re-wilding strategies and techniques lay the foundation for landscapes to heal, grow and thrive”.
Susan will showcase native plant strategies for uniting our woodland edges, creating shrubberies, meadows, and vernal pools that encourage natural processes and invite our wild neighbors back into our lives. Join Susan as she shares before and after photos of landscapes she has transformed as well as plans to “Rewild” her new property in the Shenandoah to restore habitat and ecological function with native plants.
Susan Abraham has 20+ years of private practice as an ecologically minded landscape designer. She holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Landscape Design from George Washington University, a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, and is a Fairfax County Watershed Steward as well as a Virginia Master Naturalist. “Susan taught Landscape Design as a fellow professor with me in the Sustainable Landscape Design Program at George Washington University”, said Betsy Washington, President of the Chapter. “Susan’s landscape designs are truly inspirational and ecologically rich, including residential and community-oriented projects such as the River Creek Confluence Park along the Potomac River in Leesburg”.
Questions: please email Betsy Washington at nnvnps@gmail.com.
The Northern Neck Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society (VNPS) is one of 12 chapters in the state. It is a volunteer non-profit dedicated to the protection and preservation of the native plants of Virginia and their habitats and to sustain, for generations to come, the integrity of the Commonwealth’s rich natural heritage of ecosystems and biodiversity for purposes of enjoyment, enlightenment, sustainable use, and our own very survival.