Eden & DaneHunt country estates,
designed to last
for generations.
Landscape design for Middleburg, Upperville, The Plains and the surrounding Loudoun and Fauquier countryside. Working farms, horse properties and country houses where the land is the point.
Pasture, stone and
open views.
Middleburg properties are measured in tens and hundreds of acres, not in lots. Board fences, dry-stone walls, old hedgerows and long views to the Bull Run and Blue Ridge are the character people buy here, and a design that fights them looks wrong on day one.
Much of the land around Middleburg is already protected by conservation easements, and the Land Trust of Virginia is based in town. We design within an easement’s terms from the start: what can be planted, built or disturbed, and where. A good plan works with the easement rather than around it.
The work here is less about garden rooms and more about the whole farm: the approach, the house garden, the orchard, the pasture edges, the stream and the views between them. We plan it as one system and phase it over seasons.
Middleburg is under an hour from our Great Falls studio. We walk the property with you, and our field team installs each phase with Dane on site at the key milestones.
Four things that matter in hunt country.
Nothing toxic near the fence line.
Red maple, black walnut, yew, cherry and several ornamentals are dangerous to horses. We keep them well away from pastures, paddocks and anywhere a branch can blow in, and choose shade and windbreak trees that are safe to graze near.
Boundaries that work.
Native hedgerows of hawthorn, elderberry, serviceberry and viburnum give shelter, wildlife corridors and fruit. Where stone walls exist we restore them; where new ones belong, we site them to the land’s lines.
Protect the creek, feed the farm.
Riparian buffers along streams and ponds, swales that slow runoff off pasture, and cisterns that water the orchard and garden. Cost-share programs through the local soil and water conservation district can offset some of this work.
Food at farm scale.
Heritage apple and pear orchards, nut trees on the field edges, and a kitchen garden sized to the household and its guests, all fenced for the deer pressure that comes with open country.
Owners, farms and inns.
A plan for the whole place.
Owners who want the approach, gardens, orchard and pasture edges designed together, and phased over the years they intend to stay.
Production and beauty.
Farms adding orchards, hedgerows, pollinator strips and water systems that pay their way and improve the land under easement.
Land as the draw.
Hospitality properties where the gardens are part of the stay. See agro-hospitality.
A landscape designed for
hunt country.
Begin with a 15-minute call about your property, the easement if there is one, and what you want the land to do.
Book your discovery call