Native Plants
Wild Ginger Field Services has a passion for native plants and their full utilization on all sites. All landscapes, from a large rolling Piedmont estate of 500 acres, to a small suburban backyard or 0.25 acres, can support and sustain local flora and fauna, positively impacting our regional biodiversity and our landscapes beauty. Following in the findings of Dr. Doug Tallamy, we believe that all sites can benefit from more native plants, trees and herbaceous. Allow us to develop a landscaping plan for your yard or for your estate, that fits your budget and your timeline. Wild Ginger Field Services staff, Nicola McGoff, assisted in the creation of the Piedmont Native Plant Guide, available for free download here.
Meadows
Wild Ginger Field Services can develop a seed list, an installation plan, and a maintenance plan for your native meadow, of any scale. Installation can occur through the use of seeds or plugs; with or without the use of herbicides; on any type of native soils; sun or shade; wet soil or dry. Let us design your meadow to be tall and billowing, full of switchgrass and late blooming goldenrods, echoing with the call of grasshoppers well into Fall. Or do you prefer something short and a little more tidy looking, alive with black eyed susans, coreopsis and coneflower, butterfly weed and little blue stem? Have a passion for birding? Create a meadow to feed and house them and enjoy the view across your meadowscape. Want to save the monarch butterflies? Install a healthy native meadow and you’ll save so many other species in addition to the beloved monarch. Or simply want to mow less ground, then allow us to help you let go of weekly mowing and instead create a native lawn alternative with lower maintenance and more environmental benefits.
Stormwater Landscaping
As a qualified Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional (CBLP), level 1 and 2, company, we are well versed in the use of native plants in engineered sites such as stormwater detention basins and raingardens. Allow us to develop a native landscaping plan for your next stormwater project.
Vegetation Assessments
An assessment of ecological and vegetation resources on a site is often necessary prior to undertaking a restoration project, understanding next steps in landuse management, prior to preservation of a site, during a required monitoring period, and for verification and finalization of a project.
We have the expertise to survey and assess ecological resources on site, regardless of physical terrain (e.g., slope, rock outcrops, tidal range). Field methods employed vary depending on the needs of the project (e.g., community classification, species identification, biomass quantification, survivorship assessment, stocking assessment, herbaceous cover assessment, invasive species assessment). Most often we engage in the following services:
Community Classification
A description of the floral community is part of most Wild Ginger Field Services projects.
Classification in the state of Virginia is performed with the Classification of Ecological Community
Groups, prepared by the Department of Natural Heritage. ›
Rare Species Survey
A rare species survey is often desired prior to site restoration or development. One particular
interest in the state of Virginia is the small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides), a rare member
of the Orchid family. Some jurisdictions require a small whorled pogonia survey prior to site
disturbance. Wild Ginger Field Services currently works on a site near Christiansburg, Virginia, that is home to three listed species: smooth coneflower, Schweinitz’s sedge, and the butternut tree.
Invasive Species Assessment & Management Plan
