Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Over 40 Years of Growing Gardens and Gardeners
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In everyday conversation, when a form resembles an egg, we simply say it is egg-shaped. In botany, the terms ovate, obovate, ovoid, and obovoid describe egg-shaped plant parts. Similar shapes are oval, elliptic, and ellipsoid. Can you distinguish among these shapes when describing a leaf or fruit?
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Bring houseplants with fall-colored foliage into your home to extend the season and enjoy the warm shades of red, orange, and yellow year-round.
#MGNV Tried and True #NativePlant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
This lovely wildflower, a hummingbird favorite, shines with brilliant scarlet flowers. Its natural habitat is floodplain forests, swamps, and wet meadows throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region. The Virginia Native Plant Society honored #CardinalFlower as Wildflower of the Year in 1991.
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Join MGNV for our 2nd annual Fall Festival! We will have an “Ask the Master Gardener” table, kids' activities, a plant sale, free saplings, hand-crafted pottery, a food truck, tool sharpening, and more.
#MGNV Tried and True #NativePlant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Elegant, easy-to-grow #Culver’s-root inhabits stream banks and moist meadows in the eastern U.S. and around the Great Lakes. Striking, candelabra-like inflorescences add vertical structure, and whorled leaves horizontal lines, to landscapes. Flowers attract myriad pollinators for a month in summer, followed by seed capsules.
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Native plants, especially those identified as “keystone” species, may be best suited to changing environmental conditions and provide critical support to wildlife but cultivars of native plants don't always offer these same benefits.
