Plant Southwest Virginia Natives Campaign

Yard Sign:

Spread the Word & Support Plant SWVA Natives!

Presenting our “Plant for Life” yard sign, in partnership with Kin Land Collaborative, LLC. Aluminum signs are 8” x 10”, pre-drilled, and ready to mount. 10% of each sale will be donated back to the Plant SWVA Natives Campaign. 

Order yours here, today! Yard signs are a great way to let your neighbors know about the intention behind your landscape.

“Plant for Life” sign depicts a ruby-throated hummingbird, white oak acorn, leafcutter bee, redbud, coral honeysuckle, blue violet with butterfly eggs, tulip poplar, monarch, chrysalis, sneezeweed, indigo bunting, pawpaw, monarch caterpillar, eastern box turtle, highbush blueberry and wild strawberry.

The Plant Southwest VA Natives campaign is working to raise awareness, appreciation and application of native plants in our landscapes.

A Guide to Gardening with Southwest Virginia Native Plants is a great place to start. Download the Guide HERE.

Reach out to us at plantswvanatives@gmail.com

Join our Google Group plant-swva-natives@googlegroups.com.

The region encompasses the Roanoke and New River Valleys and includes the counties of Bland, Botetourt, Buchanan, Carroll, Craig, Dickenson, Floyd, Giles, Grayson, Lee, Montgomery, Pulaski, Roanoke, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, Wise, and Wythe as well as the cities of Bristol, Galax, Norton, Radford, Roanoke, and Salem.

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What’s happening in Southwest Virginia?

We would love to hear about your local native plant project. Use this form to share!

Featured in SWVA
Nursery Survey Committee
Nursery Survey Committee

A project to encourage the sale of more native plants by local garden centers is underway. Members of the Roanoke Master Gardeners, Roanoke Master Naturalists, Blue Ridge Wildflower Society, and other individuals will be visiting garden centers in the Roanoke Valley to compile a list of what native plants are offered. The information will be made available to the public to encourage them to ask for native plants at these garden centers. We hope the survey will promote the value of native plants and encourage garden centers to prompt their suppliers to grow more native plants, as well as a wider variety of native plants.

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Plant SWVA Natives Propagation Center at the Hale Community Garden 
Plant SWVA Natives Propagation Center at the Hale Community Garden 

This project is a collaboration between the New River Valley Regional Commission and the non-profit, Live, Work, Eat, Grow, funded by a grant from the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. The project is working to set up a native plant propagation space in an effort to distribute native plants to localities and community groups across the New River Valley.

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Plant Virginia Natives is a collaborative initiative engaging organizations, across Virginia’s coastal zone, piedmont and mountain regions, in state-wide and regional marketing strategies to increase the use and availability of native plants.

Questions, suggestions or comments about the initiative and this website?  
Please contact Virginia Witmer, Plant Virginia Natives Initiative Coordinator, at virginia.witmer@deq.virginia.gov .