Natural Elements, LLC

Natural Elements, LLC Offering a range of services including plant health care, integrated pest management, pruning, and landscape maintenance.

We started Natural Elements LLC to offer superior plant health care services to Rappahannock County and the surrounding northern piedmont region. Our services include integrated pest management (IPM) which includes pest and disease management of trees, shrubs and perennials, invasive plant species management, native habitat restoration, pruning and landscape maintenance.

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet” - Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
06/08/2026

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet” - Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

A little more beauty to finish out the week - 1) Spiderwort , 2) Yarrow, 3) Oxeye Daisy
06/05/2026

A little more beauty to finish out the week - 1) Spiderwort , 2) Yarrow, 3) Oxeye Daisy

Today’s beauty
06/01/2026

Today’s beauty

04/27/2026

“Pink lady’s slipper (Cypripedium acaule) is found throughout Virginia. The pink lady’s slipper is found in mature pine woodlands and is extremely hard to relocate.
Plants are only mature or healthy enough to bloom if they produce a pair of leaves. They are pollinated by bees.
According to USDA: In order to survive and reproduce, pink lady’s slipper interacts with a fungus in the soil from the Rhizoctonia genus. Generally, orchid seeds do not have food supplies inside them like most other kinds of seeds. Pink lady’s slipper seeds require threads of the fungus to break open the seed and attach them to it. The fungus will pass on food and nutrients to the pink lady’s slipper seed. When the lady’s slipper plant is older and producing most of its own nutrients, the fungus will extract nutrients from the orchid roots. This mutually beneficial relationship between the orchid and the fungus is known as “symbiosis” and is typical of almost all orchid species.” -

📸 Ashley Moulton, VNPS Publicity Chair during a annual monitoring site visit for Capital Region Land Conservancy in Hanover County, Virginia.

Temperatures dropped below freezing throughout the area last night. Our low was 25 here at our house. This has caused wi...
04/21/2026

Temperatures dropped below freezing throughout the area last night. Our low was 25 here at our house. This has caused widespread damage to the leaves of trees and other plants. Even our hemlocks and cypress took damage. Pictured here is an early morning photo of the frost on our ginkgo leaves, and that same ginkgo later this afternoon with the leaves dead and dropping off. It, and all the other damaged trees, will eventually push out new leaves but they are going to look rough for a bit. Perennial plants that suffered damage should also recover but any tender annuals are most likely dead.

04/21/2026

Pink Lady’s Slipper or Moccasin Flower (Cypripedium acaule) are in bloom! This orchid is native to eastern North America and it’s often found in sunny coniferous or oak forests with acidic soils. In our region, you can often find them blooming from around mid-April through May. You can find Pink Lady’s Slipper in the Piedmont, but it’s more common in the Blue Ridge of the Carolinas and Georgia. It becomes more common in the Piedmont of Virginia and further north. It’s also in the Great Lakes states.

The “slipper” or “moccasin” of Pink Lady’s Slipper refers to its pouched floral shape. A vertical slit on the front of the slipper allows bumblebees to enter. They’re attracted to the color and scent, but will find no nectar reward inside. So tricky!

Once trapped inside the slipper, the bumblebee is guided by floral hairs toward an exit hole at the bottom of the slipper. Before it exits, though, the bumblebee first brushes against the sticky female stigma, which picks up pollen on the bumblebee’s body from other Pink Lady’s Slippers it had previously visited. Closer to the exit hole, the bumblebee brushes against the pollen-bearing male anthers on its way out of the slipper. A pollen delivery and then a pick-up on its way out the door, how’s that for a cool pollen courier service!

Pink Lady’s Slippers should never be picked or transplanted from the wild. They have an extremely low transplant success due to their association with mycorrhizal fungi in the soil. I particularly like how these two Pink Lady’s Slippers appear to be “holding hands.”

Photo by K. Blake.

I find all violets beautiful, but this one especially so.
04/16/2026

I find all violets beautiful, but this one especially so.

04/10/2026

Here are 12 common wildflowers you might find blooming in a yard or garden from late winter into spring. North American natives are marked with an N, the rest have been introduced from Europe or Asia.

As always, encourage the native plants to grow where you can, as those are the plants that native bees and other insects are best adapted for pollination. Many specialist bees rely on particular native plants for their survival. Also important is how native insects are adapted to the chemical defenses of native plants, allowing these insects to feed on the leaves of particular native plants.

How many of these plants have you seen this spring? 👀

Top Row (L to R): Bird’s-eye Speedwell (Veronica persica), Creeping Charlie or Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea), Johnny-jump-up or American Field Pansy (Viola bicolor), Purple Deadnettle (Lamium purpureum)

Middle Row (L to R): Common Chickweed (Stellaria media), Field Madder (Galium sherardia), White Clover (Trifolium repens), Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia)

Bottom Row (L to R): Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), Hop Clover or Hop Trefoil (Trifolium campestre), Mock Strawberry (Potentilla indica), Yellow Wood-sorrel (Oxalis spp.)

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Amissville, VA
20106

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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(540) 937-4242

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