Liriodendron
Natural Landscape Design
Natural Landscape Design
Champion Hickory (photo by Robert Zahner)
Liriodendron, established in 2004 in Charlottesville, Virginia, is an independently owned landscape design practice serving clients throughout Virginia and beyond. As Principal, Anne Henley is a certified landscape designer, with a Masters degree in landscape architecture (U.Ga.) and over twenty years of professional experience. She provides research, consultation, design and drawing services. Plans emphasize comfortable and efficient site design, endowed with planting schemes that support a diversity of native flora and fauna. Mediating relationships among homeowners, businesses, local communities and site-specific ecosystems, we partner with clients in demonstrating better ways for gardens to nurture and celebrate the vitality of the Appalachian forest biome in which we make our homes.
Liriodendron is dedicated to the support of naturalistic landscaping and responsible ecological practices, rooted in universal principles of classic garden design. By amplifying the intricate beauty inherent in the details of native plant communities and natural ecological processes, we encourage clients to become active participants in their surroundings--enacting a positive transformation of the prevailing land ethic as we join to restore the biodiversity of our local ecosystems.
We encourage clients to participate in the design process as they become increasingly engaged advocates for the land they inhabit; and we encourage inclusive collaboration among the team of professionals who contribute their unique expertise to the attainment of each project’s objectives. Liriodendron welcomes clients of all races and economic levels—each of whom can make an essential contribution to our collective vitality.
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Liriodendron is dedicated to the support of naturalistic landscaping and responsible ecological practices, rooted in universal principles of classic garden design. By amplifying the intricate beauty inherent in the details of native plant communities and natural ecological processes, we encourage clients to become active participants in their surroundings--enacting a positive transformation of the prevailing land ethic as we join to restore the biodiversity of our local ecosystems.
We encourage clients to participate in the design process as they become increasingly engaged advocates for the land they inhabit; and we encourage inclusive collaboration among the team of professionals who contribute their unique expertise to the attainment of each project’s objectives. Liriodendron welcomes clients of all races and economic levels—each of whom can make an essential contribution to our collective vitality.
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Stokesia with American Beautyberry & Cinnamon Fern
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Nature is not a place to visit.
It is home. Gary Snyder
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Nature is not a place to visit.
It is home. Gary Snyder
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Spotted Mountain Mint
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Fritillary butterflies enjoying Milkweed
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All photographs, text, and gardens by Anne L. Henley, unless otherwise noted.
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"The darker the night, the brighter the stars." Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I have had the pleasure of working with Anne for several years. She has consistently given me insightful and sane ideas for beds, material, and simple construction (projects) for my cottage. When we met, I knew immediately that she was knowledgeable, had an excellent eye, plenty of common sense, an abundance of honesty and good ideas. She has been a pleasure to work with; she has an easy-going manner, (with) soft spoken but clear options. When she says in three days or two weeks she means it: No putting you off. What more could you ask of a landscape designer!" MRM, Ivy, VA
Anne's plans show her ability to listen and reflect and then give us a plan that pulls everything together, using her knowledge of good design and of plants and how to use them. She has always honored our wishes for simplicity and good environmental practices, such as emphasizing indigenous plants; and she has broadened our plant horizons." KB, Batesville, VA
"We met Anne when we were putting in a small pond which required a complete renovation of the area just outside our back door. It was clear to me that she was an expert not only in the potential design, but also in what plants to suggest, based on the rather challenging location of the area. Anne quickly demonstrated her knowledge of the plant types, potential growth, and most impressively, how they would compliment one another. Anne's final design was precise and reflected exactly what we discussed as her final recommendations. To this day, now six years later, we continue to receive compliments on the pond area and friends always ask, Who designed this for you?'" PT, Charlottesville, VA
"But if that Heaven should give me life,
his childhood shall grow up familiar with these songs, that with the night he may associate joy."
Coleridge, The Nightingale
Liriodendron lirio@mindspring.com