Whether experienced or a novice, the present-day challenge is to be a naturalist with a “waste not, want not” ecological commitment: a caretaker of the environmental community. 

As a 'hands-on' landscape gardener, Wright gardens a 2-acre woodland site located in Central VA. Featured by PBS TV VA Home Grown for eco-activities, her
strategies respect an existing vista as well as preserve and enhance its health. As a designer, Wright creates for her clients designs that include plants not selected simply to provide contrast of structure, texture, and color, but 
environmental contributions.

Wright, a columnist and features writer for home and garden magazines, was spotlighted for her 'green writing' by the VA Press Women Association. Gigi Amateau, author of the award winning youth novel Claiming Georgia Tate, describes Wright’s writing as, “thrilling, to tell the truth. She really nails it. I laughed and loved the whole thing. In the past couple of years, I have gotten away from gardening (except in my mind); Wright’s words reminded me why I love to work in the earth in the first place.” To read examples of Wright's eco writing, link to http://www.myvmagazine.com/index.php/Table/Our-Earth-Our-Home/Eco-Chic/

A graduate of the VA Natural Resource Leadership Institute program, Wright attend landscape design courses sponsored by Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens and the National Garden Association Stewards of the Land program. She is a speaker for Nursery and Landscape Associations as well as garden and civic clubs; and, a featured speaker for the Garden Writer’s Conference held in Canada, 2006 and 2008 Maymont Flower and Garden Shows, and Green Festivals held in DC. 

As a result of her ongoing eco effort, she is the recipient of the VA Horticulture Foundation 2005 educator’s award and 2008  Turning America from Eco-weak to Eco-chic Award - sponsored by Hines Horticulture, Project EverGreen and Today's Garden Center magazine. For details, see  http://projectevergreen.com/news/news-releases/2008/09/19/eco-chic-winners-announced/  

As a nationally recognized eco professional, Wright offers Eco-chic Services:

landscape gardener/designer:

      provide site analysis & plan development 

     design specialty gardens: herb, butterfly, cut-flower, shade,  & edible gardens
consultant: community & property greenscape strategies

coach:

     provide one-on-one gardening strategies & tips 

speeches*:

     provide key-note and featured speeches for conferences and events.

workshops*: 

     available in ½ or full-day format.   

              Topics*
   3Ps - plant, place and optimal planting season.

   From Eco-weak to Eco-chic: landscape green.

   From Eco-weak to Eco-chic: community green-scaping.

   Stewardship: caretakers of the environmental community. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

              

Wright's Woodland Garden
featured by  
                      Boomer Magazine,
Richmond Newspapers,
         State-by-State Gardening  magazines &
           The Best of Birds & Blooms  2006

Eco-chic Landscape/Garden Designs

As a Green Industry specialist, Wright invites you to blog. Link to her blog web sites http://blog.thewrightscoop.com/
or http://www.buildinggreentv.com/user/thewrightscoop/blog
 
For details of eco strategies and/or a step by step guide for creating a sustainable landscape/garden, acquire a copy of her book - From Eco-weak to Eco-chic: landscape green -

Readers describe Wright’s book as 

      “Sylvia’s eco-chic advocacy embodies every aspect of the consumer education campaign we hoped to inspire,” said Den Gardner, executive director of Project EverGreen, www.projectevergreen.com. “The judges were impressed with her ongoing effort to teach eco-green. For, our vision is to be a global organization that empowers people within communities to change society through the responsible creation and preservation of sustainable green spaces, such that the ever-increasing impacts of global warming in the world are measurably reduced; because Green Matters!”

        “Sneed’s commitment to organics, the community and the environment,” says designer Jenny Jenkins-Rash of Sneed’s Nursery & Garden Center located in Richmond Virginia “are echoed in Wright’s book: the challenge for the present-day homeowner is to create a garden from an eco-chic point of view, a ‘waste not, and want not’ ecological commitment: be a caretaker for the environmental community. We support Wright’s advocacy through hosting book signings and having her book on site for sale.”

To review or acquire a copy, link to LuLu.com http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/from-eco-weak-to-eco-chic-landscape-green/7539795 . To read a book review link to Local Talent, http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-14223-Richmond-Books-Examiner~y2009m9d25-From-Ecoweak-to-Ecochic-Landscape-Green-by-Sylvia-Hoehns-Wright-review .

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                 To schedule one-on-one coaching, consultation, speech or workshop on the topics of 
                                                                           eco-chic landscape garden design
                                                                    greenscape urban/suburban communities
                                                                 eco-chic, more than a sustainable landscape 
                                                                                        contact:
                                                             The Wright - consultant, lecturer and wordsmith
                                                            Sylvia@TheWrightScoop.com or 804-672-6007

                                          

Move from eco-weak to eco-chic – ‘green’ life’s garden, one scoop at a time!