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Aldertree Garden offers native plant design, installation, and maintenance to homes and businesses in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Some types of gardens we design include:
Rain Garden
Rain gardens are shallow depressions planted with attractive natives designed to capture and soak up stormwater.
Children’s Garden
A former elementary school teacher, I design child-friendly gardens based upon years of observing the way children really play. And it’s beautiful and practical for adults as well.
Butterfly Garden
Butterflies bring moving color and life to your garden. We’ll include larval host plants as well as flowers for nectar.
Bird-Friendly Garden
Move beyond bird feeders to attract a greater variety of birds to your garden. Provide food for nestlings as well as adults.
Xeriscape Garden
Drought-tolerant native plants for dry parts of your garden. Using regionally native plants, it will not look like a desert.
Woodland Garden
Shade is an asset, not a liability. Add understory trees, shrubs, perennials, and ferns beneath your mature trees to create a calm, cool retreat.
Meadow Garden
Native flowers and grasses invite pollinators into your sunny garden. It’s not about sprinkling a can of seeds and hoping for the best.
Pet-Friendly Garden
Understanding your pet’s habits, we can choose and place plants so both humans and canines will be happy. Avoid using pesticides by planting natives.
Conservation Landscaping
Also called BayScaping, RainScaping, or RiverSmart, it reduces pesticide and fertilizer use that impacts our waterways and increases wildlife habitat.
Slope Garden
Move beyond a sea of groundcover or difficult-to-mow lawn. Plants that have good root systems to hold the soil and a variety of textures make the slope a highlight.
Lawn Alternatives
Most people have more lawn than they actually use. Reduce emissions, noise pollution, fertilizer, and pesticides by removing some of your lawn and replacing with native plants.
Deer Resistant
There is no such thing as a deer-proof garden. However, we can select native trees, shrubs, and perennials that deer are less likely to eat.
Privacy Plantings
No “fast-growing” monsters or irresponsible invasives. Creative, diverse, and beautiful for the long term.
Beautiful gardens for people and other living things.
Contact Us
Aldertree Garden
PO Box 5603
Takoma Park, MD 20913-5603
(301) 563-6227
info@aldertreegarden.com