Welcome to Nature By Design  
Welcome to
Nature By Design
An Environmentally Responsible Full Service
Native Plant Nursery and Garden Center
                                                                                  VA Lic. # 2705-062008

** We're open and accepting orders for 2025!! Our 2025 plant list is up!! **

** We're at the AHS Spring Garden Market at River Farm Friday 4/11 **
** and Saturday 4/12, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.!! This is a ticketed event. **

** We're at the Four Mile Run Farmers' Market on Sundays from 9 to 1 (barring hazardous weather)!! **
** PLEASE NOTE: We'll still be there even when the Four Mile Run Market Website says it's closed!! **

The market is at 4109 Mt. Vernon Avenue in Alexandria, just below S. Glebe Rd., on Sundays
from 9 am to 1 pm. There is ample free parking! Call or email us to preorder!!

We offer free delivery to all Alexandria mailing addresses and all Northern Virginia locations
inside the Beltway. Call us for a delivery estimate outside that area. We're looking for other
pickup points throughout the area; if you have a commercial spot w/parking, let us know!

You can place your orders by email or call us at (703) 683-4769.
Call or email us to preorder!

NOTE: Google Business is incorrectly reporting our location. We are working to resolve this.

We offer an outstanding range of native trees, shrubs, perennials, and
vines, including many unavailable elsewhere in the Washington area.

Our innovative approach to landscape design will:

  • Reduce maintenance
  • Protect our precious Chesapeake Bay watershed
  • Replace vanishing wildlife habitat, and
  • Transform your yard into a sanctuary of breathtaking beauty

  • Would you like to learn more about us?


    Read our landscaping philosophy

    See our 2025 plant list
    Contact us
    Passiflora incarnataHamamelis virginiana
    Wisteria frutescensChoptank Rose Rhododendron
       You may be surprised by some of the plants that are native to this area!