May is the Time to Harden Off Seedlings
#mgnv #transplanting #vegetablegardening
This month, we address hardening off, the process of exposing these transplants to outdoor conditions.
Word Quiz of the Week
#MasterGardener #MGNV #Glossary
What adjective describes a plant that grows in dense tufts?
Green Spring Gardens:
This Saturday! MGNV’s Biggest Plant Sale!
Meet with VCE Arlington/Alexandria Extension Master Gardeners to choose the perfect plants for your garden! If you are planning to start or add to a native plant collection, they will help with plant selection, planting advice, and answer all your questions. In addition, there will be artists, food vendors, and bake sales.
GRASS: Elymus hystrix (Bottlebrush Grass)
#MGNV Tried and True #NativePlant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
This graceful plant is the most shade-tolerant native grass, and its distinctive flowering spikes and seed heads are a lovely ornamental feature, showing especially well when backlit. It naturally grows in dry woodlands and barrens mostly north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Trees as Old as the USA
#America250 #nativetrees #MGNV
As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, not many trees from the late 1700s survive in Alexandria and Arlington. Almost all succumbed by the thousands to farming, logging, industrial and residential development, and climate change. But there are a few here and there, bearing witness to the generations of people and events that over the last 250 years transformed a heavily forested corner of Virginia into an urban cityscape.
Word Quiz of the Week
#MasterGardener #MGNV #Glossary
What is a small or secondary spike called?