Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
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Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Native to the eastern United States, Spotted Beebalm inhabits dry prairies and sandy areas. This showy plant with tubular flowers, colorful bracts, and a stacked, whorled appearance provides interesting form and texture to gardens and attracts a variety of pollinators and beneficial insects.
Vegetable gardening information and events for December.
If you are unsure of what constitutes a native, non-native/alien, or invasive species, we offer definitions and explain why what you plant and grow on your property matters. Click on the words to learn more.
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have created a new series of short videos about locally invasive plants and native alternatives. This series looks at individual invasive plants, discussing how to remove them and suggesting native plants to consider as replacements. This month's post is on Chinese Silver Grass (Miscanthus sinensis).
New and updated public education classes offered July to November are now on the website in the Master Gardener Virtual Classroom.
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Golden sprays of flowers brighten gardens and natural habitats across the Mid-Atlantic Region from late summer to frost, supporting 115 species of pollinators—moths, butterflies, native bees... The cultivar ‘Fireworks’ is more compact, easier to contain, and flowers more vigorously than the species.
