Whether experienced or a novice, the challenge for a present-day landscape/gardener is to design as a naturalist with a “waste not, want not” ecological commitment: be 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 her eco-activities, Wright strategies respect an existing vista as well as preserve and enhance its health. As a designer, she creates for her clients designs that include for any style garden, plants not selected simply to provide contrast of structure, texture, and color, but make environmental contributions.

In addition to her design and garden activities,  
Wright is a columnist and features writer for home and garden magazines.

A Virginia Master Gardener and American Horticulture Society member, Wright is a graduate of LewisGinterBotanical Garden’s landscape design program.  She is a well-known speaker for the Nursery and Landscape Associations as well as garden and civic clubs and was a featured speaker for the Garden Writer’s Conference held in Canada, 2006 and 2008 Maymont Flower and Garden Show, and Green Festival held in DC. Wright is the recipient of the VA Horticulture Foundation 2005 educator’s award. 

As MC for the 2008 VA Garden Festival, Wright invites you to attend. Details - 

The Virginia Green Industry Council (VGIC) challenges Virginians to Keep Virginia Green and Growing, ‘become champions for the environment’ during their third Virginia Garden Festival (and more …) held (rain or shine) September 20, 2008 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Garner Pavilion (located between the Science Museum of VA and Children’s Museum of Richmond), 2500 West Broad Street, in Richmond Virginia.  For directions, see web site www.smv.org and event details see http://www.virginiagardening.com/virginiagardenfestival.htm . Festival admission and parking is 'free'. 

 
 
Wright's Woodland Garden - 
                         featured by  
         State-by-State Gardening  magazines
                               and  
           The Best of Birds & Blooms 2006    
 

       Eco-chic Landscape/Garden Designs

In 2007, Wright partnered with Doug Hensel of the Great Big Greenhouse and together emphase ‘greening’ the Greater Richmond Area’s landscapes. During GBG events, she provides eco-strategies and tips: ‘from eco-weak to eco-chic: right plant, in the right place, at the right time of the year!’ Details of this strategy are available  in   http://richmond.housetrends.com/article.php?id=145, an article published with Richmond’s HouseTrends magazine.

  Or to hear a sample speech on this topic, link to Green Festivals - Music Gallery

Sylvia Hoehns Wright, Washington (DC) Gardener magazine's eco-savvy columnist, was featured regionally by VA Home Grown, WCVE Richmond PBS TV and nationally ...

http://www.greenfestivals.org/index.php?option=com_xemusicfx&Itemid=425&func=detail&id=28 - 17k

 Wright publishes a biweekly column,  ‘From Eco-weak to Eco-chic’ column host by Richmond.com at http://www.richmond.com/science-technology/     and will soon provide an 'eco-chic' blog through www.inrich.com.