Designs for Greener Gardens

05/22/2025

Another successful year at the Ladew Garden Fair. What a fun event to meet and mingle with passionate gardeners, share our French garden antiques and inspire creativity with elegant, hand-carved garden troughs.

01/10/2024

Stop by our booth #2414 at the Mid Atlantic Nurseryman’s Trade Show at the Baltimore Convention Center, January 10-12, 2024. We have some special French ornaments for the garden to inspire.

03/15/2023

Our Spring Lecture series is back beginning next Thursday, March 16th...

"Captivating Container Combinations" with Nancy Lowry Moitrier. Thursday, March 16 (10:30 am) offered in-person or virtual.

*In-person tickets sold out; virtual still available*

As we prepare for warmer weather, join us as we learn how to become an expert in container design, which will elevate your gardens. Designs for Greener Gardens has created thousands of container combinations since 1995. Head designer Nancy Lowry Moitrier has collected an abundance of ideas for your consideration. Her experience will successfully guide you through container selection, staging and design. In this photographic presentation she will share secrets of how to compose sophisticated spring and summer plant combinations and even striking winter-hardy plant combinations. Tips and techniques for how to successfully plant and care for your container creations will conclude the presentation.

For more information and tickets, visit https://ladewgardens.com/Event-Calendar/Events-at-Ladew/Lecture-Series

03/13/2023

Leesburg lifestyle found our special French antiquities amongst a show of 300,000 square feet! Read about how our old world treasures can elevate your garden setting Lifestyle.

03/10/2023

Check out the recent ‘Garden Question Podcast’ from Craig Mc Manus. In our interview we share our passion for soulful garden making.

Inspiring Your Garden Soul – Nancy and Pierre Motrier – 098 In this episode we talk with Nancy & Pierre Moitrier about how they approach garden creation as a wife and husband team. Why inspiring your garden soul is important to them as they design and build an outdoor space. Bringing life to you...

05/05/2022

Ladew Garden’s spectacular annual Garden Fair is this Saturday, May 7. Come shop our booth of fabulous French garden troughs and antiquities. We have some lovely little conifers too. Perfect for the garden OR your new trough. Look forward to seeing you!

01/15/2022

01/05/2022

Our first booth at MANTS nursery trade show displaying our authentic French farm troughs and antiquities for the garden… ooh la la!

01/06/2021

Check out our virtual booth at MANTS. We have branched out and are excited to be selling French garden antiques and old world stone troughs! Visit our newest web site at www.greenergardensantiques.net.

06/21/2020

Check out the Lowry Garden page...the new owners of my parents horticultural paradise are embracing their new piece of the planet and want to share the beauty! Wow! How lucky that the new owners found the garden and the garden will carry onward with love.

03/17/2020

Proud to be featured in Meredith Corporation’s nationally circulated magazine: Country Gardens. Our brightly colored spring bulb display will easily bring a smile- and we all need a smile about now!

03/30/2019

When the sun sets tonight, don’t turn on your lights, join the world and participate in earth hour(8:30pm). Enjoy dinner by candlelight and the peace of the beautiful outdoors and hopefully, the ability to see a few more stars.