Glorious Shade
In Glorious Shade—Dazzling plants, design ideas, and proven techniques for your shady garden, Jenny Rose Carey shows how any shady spot can be a wonderful mix of textures, colors, flowers, and seasonal interest.
Demonstration Gardens
Garden Plans for the Small Space Garden
The beds in the Small Space Garden are being redesigned to showcase native plants appropriate for patios and other small spaces, for varying conditions of sun, part sun, and shade. Each of the designs will be posted and made available to gardeners who would like to duplicate the design in their own gardens.
Come to Florafest in Potomac Overlook Park and visit the Organic Vegetable Garden!
As part of Florafest at Potomac Overlook Park, Extension Master Gardeners from the Organic Vegetable Garden will lead tours of the garden and be available to discuss all things about vegetable gardening in Northern Virginia. Visitors to the garden can bring their questions to the pop-up plant clinic, and there will be activities for children focusing on seeds, including planting seeds in pots to take home.
Don’t Guess, Soil Test!
The Small Space Garden grows fruit and vegetables in two raised beds, in containers, up trellises, and intermixed with the ornamental plants in the beds. Soil tests are an important part of garden planning and planting. The Extension Master Gardeners test the soil in the Small Space Garden to assess the need for fertilizers, lime, or other amendments.
Beautiful Native Plants: Spring Ephemerals
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have recently created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We will be sharing these videos as well as additional resources on our website every month.
Plants
These plant and gardening related presentations from the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden offer a range of educational information on gardening and includes a new series on Beautiful Native Plants
Recipes & Crafts
These videos include some of the herb-focused activities usually featured at the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden's annual AutumnFest event.
Best Gardening Practices
These videos from the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden includes a series on Climate Conscious Gardening as well as some introductory Gardening 101 tips.
Wildlife
Information and observations on insects from the coordinators of the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden.
November Vegetable Gardening
November Vegetable Gardening Advice - Now is the Time for Winter Gardening
Originally published in Between the Rows, from Virginia Cooperative Extension & Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
The Small Space Garden at the Fairlington Community Center: How it Grew
Constructed as part of the Fairlington Community Center (FCC) renovation in 2007, the small garden in an alcove at the back of the FCC has evolved from the Learning Garden …
The Greening Time
The best way to get in touch with what is greening is to take a walk outside. The six demonstration gardens maintained by the MGNV in Arlington and Alexandria are open to the public, so visitors can go and observe the varying stages of new spring growth. Throughout our area, trees are budding, birds are returning or passing in migration, opossums and salamanders are reviving from their winter’s sleep, even though spring doesn't come officially until mid-March.
Winter: The Quiet Season
Enjoy this lovely essay by Wendy Mills on winter dormancy.
Faux-Nuts, Fruits, Berries & Seeds
The bounty produced by the Library Garden this fall captivated many visitors. Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia love sharing the beauty and abundance of Nature's gifts, while also having the opportunity to answer lots of questions elicited by the great variety of seeds, berries, fruits and the one “faux-nut” displayed in our Glencarlyn Library Teaching/Demonstration garden.
Glencarlyn Library Community Garden Videos
The coordinators of the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden started making short educational videos in the fall of 2020 as an alternative, distanced means of providing some of the educational content and herb-focused activities usually featured at the garden's annual AutumnFest event. They enjoyed the medium so much that they have continued to make plant and gardening related presentations as opportunities have presented themselves.
Taking a Closer Look at Roadside Wildflowers
Many of the wildflowers seen along local roadways or on day-trips to the beach or mountains (those yellow, orange, purple or pink blurs) can be viewed close-up in the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden in Arlington, VA.
Five Yards and a Demonstration Garden: Part II
The Glencarlyn Library Garden Coordinators Talk About Their Personal Spaces and Public Collaboration
Learn about the transformations in the gardens of Alyssa Ford Morel and Paul Nuhn and how all five gardeners' aesthetics have informed the development of the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden.
Five Yards and a Demonstration Garden: Part I
The Glencarlyn Library Garden Coordinators Talk About Their Personal Spaces and Public Collaboration
Learn about the transformations in the gardens of Judy Funderburk, Elaine Mills and Wendy Mills
Gifts of Fragrance in the Early Spring Garden
Gifts of Fragrance in the Early Spring Garden
How often do we miss things because we are just too busy to “slow down and smell the flowers?”
‘Tis the time of the year . . .
Judy Funderburk looks back at the year in the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden
Simpson Gardens Roundup: A Season of Renovation
Have you ever looked around your yard and thought that it was time to shake things up and reinvigorate the garden? Maybe you will benefit from the experience of the dedicated team at Simpson Gardens, who have spent the last year working hard on renewal of the garden.
Great Long-Blooming Plants for Pollinators
A 2013 plant trial conducted by Penn State Extension, Bees, Bugs & Blooms, ranked three species native to our Mid-Atlantic region as among the best plants for flowering longevity, and in attracting desirable insects. An additional benefit is that deer dislike all three plants. Learn more . . .
The Glencarlyn Pollinator Garden and the Importance of Pollinators
Support pollinators in your own back yard—it's easy. To help guide your plant choices, stop by the patio area at Glencarlyn Library Community Garden to check out our newly revamped pollinator garden.
Parking Lot Beds at Library Get Major Re-do
Master Gardeners at the Glencarlyn Library have been renovating the garden beds along the parking lot. As the growing season progresses, local residents will see dozens of new plantings and a more intentional, holistic design that highlights native plants.