Volunteers Help Fallingwater Replace Invasive Plants with Native Perennials

Most noted for its bold cantilevers that extend out over Bear Run, Fallingwater captivates our imaginations for its inseparable connection to its natural landscape.

Unfortunately, many of the ornamental plants introduced near the house by the Kaufmann’s groundskeepers have through the years overgrown the area and today threaten a number of native trees and other plants.

A new multi-year landscape master plan for the area that surrounds Fallingwater, developed by Marshall Tyler Rausch, Landscape Architects, requires the removal of invasive species including English ivy, wisteria, honeysuckle and winged euonymus (burning bush). Areas where these invasives are removed will be replanted with native plants or related cultivars focusing on varieties with multi-seasonal interest and a variety of texture and foliage, such as: Appalachian barren strawberry, black cohosh, common witchhazel, creeping phlox, eastern redbud, flowering dogwood, wild ginger, moosewood maple, prince calico aster and smooth azalea.


If you would like to join us in combating the invasive plants at Fallingwater and learn about native plants that you may want to use in your own garden, please contact Cara Armstrong at carmstrong@paconserve.org or 724.329.1441 x 1100.

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