Colonial Williamsburg employees use traditional and nontraditional tools to perform the horticultural operations that are demanded of them by the 20th century challenges of maintaining 180 acres of Historic Area gardens and over 2000 acres that comprise our hotel and greenbelt properties.

The exigencies of modern pest problems and the cost of modern labor have meant that the Colonial Williamsburg landscape department must work smarter, maintaining 18th-century gardens with 20th-century methods, such as the environmentally sensitive integrated pest management program that is a hallmark of the Foundation's dedication to the environment.