The Wright Scoop - consultant, lecturer & wordsmith
The Wright Scoop –Sylvia Hoehns Wright, recipient of the ‘Turning America from Eco-weak to Eco-chic’ award sponsored by Hines Horticulture, Project Evergreen and Today’s Garden Center magazine, challenges communities to create eco sustainable landscapes, landscapes that reflect 4 Ps - ‘Right Plant, Place, Planting Strategy and Purchased to support Buy-Local: developers, growers and retailers’.
Having attended Wright's workshop, Changing America’s Landscape, during the National Cities Conference held in DC, "I was anxious," says Kenneth Pritchett, "to start a Go Green effort for my community, Petersburg VA." Sharing first-hand knowledge of the impact of urban development on her central Virginia wet-land property, Wright explored techniques proven to move America's landscapes from eco-weak to eco-chic, creating a legacy of healthy community green spaces.
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-srategies, Wright respects an existing vista preserving and enhancing its health. As an eco consultant, Wright for her clients ensures landscape garden designs that include plants
not selected simply to provide contrast of structure, texture, and color, but environmental contributions.
Encouraging the use of green-scaping concepts, Wright advocates build and maintain healthy soil, install right plant for site requirements; and during seasonal appropriate cycles, be water wise, adopt earth-friendly pest and weed management, implement natural lawn care and install plants during least climate stress conditions.
A speaker for Nursery and Landscape Associations as well as garden and civic clubs, the Garden Writer’s Conference held in As recipient of the Turning America from Eco-weak to Eco-chic Award, she challenges all to ‘plant more plants’, move their life-styles from eco-weak to eco-chic – ‘green’ life’s garden, one scoop at a time!
Wright attend landscape design courses sponsored by
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 Washington Gardener magazine says “Sylvia Hoehns Wright’s From Eco-weak to Eco-chic: landscape green offers readers guidelines for joining the green revolution in their own yards. Becoming eco-chic, Wright explains, is primarily a matter of “working with instead of against an area’s natural environment” to create sustainable, eco-friendly landscapes. To read more, link to review - http://blog.thewrightscoop.com/2011/04/28/from-eco-weak-to-eco-chic-landscape-green---book-review.aspx or Sylvia’s Store - http://stores.lulu.com/syhwright. Readers describe Wright’s book as
For a step by step guide for creating a sustainable landscape, acquire a copy of her book - From Eco-weak to Eco-chic: landscape green -

“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!”
As a Green Industry specialist, Wright invites you to blog. Link to her blog web site http://blog.thewrightscoop.com/