Ecological Landscaping & Native Plant Sales

All Power to the pollinators

Ecological Landscaping & Native Plant Sales All Power to the pollinators

We are a worker-owned ecological landscaping company and native plant nursery serving the Washington, DC area.

Two Swamp Rose Co-op team members working on a new garden

what we do

Ecological Landscaping

Full service landscaping by native plant specialists. We specialize in RainScapes, RiverSmart, and Rain Check Rebate projects.

Nursery benches showcasing selection of maryland native plants.

Native Plant Sales

Pop-up native plant sales at seasonal events, festivals, and markets. Offering a wide selection of flowering perennials, sedges, grasses, trees & shrubs

What’s a Co-op?

Why Swamp Rose?

What’s a native plant?

find out more

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View fullsize Gardens are a source of strength and resilience. Let’s build them differently. Some thoughts from us for the coming year. #garden #plants #coop #labor #landscaping #2025
View fullsize We are honored to have one of our founding members featured in a new book that highlights environmental leaders in the DC area Latin community, Perteneciendo: Nuestras Raíces, Nuestra Tierra (Belonging: Our Roots, Our Earth). Published by @g
View fullsize Closing the book on 2024 and giving ourselves up to the reverie of small garden spaces. Dreaming of all the Lepidoptera who will soon be making their homes in places like this Capitol Hill front yard that we overhauled back in November 🥰 Happy tur
View fullsize These short, cold, near-solstice days bring us back to the seeding table. We are excited to be adding more than 20 local ecotype species to our plant sales and garden building work for 2025. As we sit closer with the plants every season, we continu
View fullsize December goals: plant stuff, fill our lungs with crisp winter air, consume huge volumes of tea in wheelbarrow chairs. . You can tell by our smiles that planting season continues well into the colder season here at Swamp Rose, as our native plant frie
View fullsize Continuing with the theme of this fall season: small spaces that pack a punch 🥊 We had to share another recently completed project because jeez it was just too pretty not to. This new front yard pocket meadow, framed by a handsome stone wall, is a