Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Promoting environmentally sound gardening practices for over 35 years!
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.
Private Gardens of the Potomac & Chesapeake invites readers to explore 15 private gardens in the greater Washington D.C., metro area. Designed by some of the region’s most well-known landscape architects, the gardens are in a variety of settings from an inner-city courtyard and rooftop to the suburbs to waterfront gardens along the Chesapeake Bay and related waters.
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Common throughout the Mid-Atlantic, this elegant shrub grows mainly in thickets and woods. The oval crowns of young plants often become, with age, irregular with drooping lower branches. Creamy white flowers give way to pink berry-like fruits (drupes), edible when ripened to blue-black.
More case studies of Arlington County Extension Master Gardeners who share their experiences dealing with stormwater and provide examples of actions taken in their own gardens that could lead to utility fee reductions.
