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Category Archives: Shade Garden
Summer in the Shade Garden – Shade Garden Phlox
By Dina Lehmann-Kim, Certified Master Gardener All Photos © 2017 Dina Lehmann-Kim In late July through early August, the Shade Garden at Bon Air Park features a floral display that is short-lived but spectacular nonetheless. The plant, Lycoris squamigera, also … Continue reading
Hellebores – A Gardener’s Comfort
By Dina Lehman Avid gardeners spend the winter months gazing through plant catalogs, planning for changes and new additions to their gardens while eagerly awaiting the first signs of spring. The hellebore, an evergreen plant that usually reaches 15 inches … Continue reading
Signs of Spring in the Shade Garden
By Dina Lehmann-Kim, Master Gardener To any garden visitor strolling through Bon Air Park’s Shade Garden in mid-January, clumps of snowdrops would have immediately captured their attention given the backdrop of mostly barren garden beds filled with fallen brown leaves. … Continue reading
Posted in Shade Garden
Tagged bulbs, Hellebores, Master Gardener Demonstration Shade Garden, Purple Crocuses, Shade Garden, Snowdrops
Fall Colors in the Shade Garden
by Dina Lehmann-Kim, Master Gardener Fall on the East Coast usually conjures up the colors associated with the incredible display of the season’s changing leaves— brilliant oranges, fiery reds, and bright yellows. The Shade Garden has some of these, but … Continue reading
The Shade Garden Showcases Ferns
by Dina Lehmann-Kim, Master Gardener While the Shade Garden at Bon Air Park is host to a wide variety of plants, the stars this month are the ferns. Ferns thrive in shade and come in a range of sizes, hues, … Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden, Shade Garden, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Tagged Adiantum pedatum, Athyrium niponiscum ‘Pictum’, Christmas fern, Dennstaedtia punctilobula, ferns, hay-scented fern, interrupted fern, Japanese painted fern, maidenhair fern, Master Gardener Demonstration Shade Garden, Osmunda claytoniana, Polystichum acrostichoides, royal fern (Osmunda regalis)
Master Gardeners and TreeStewards Work Together at Shade Garden
by Dina Lehmann-Kim, Master Gardener On Thursday, June 2, 2016, a productive collaboration took place at the Shade Garden – a work party between Master Gardeners and the TreeStewards of Arlington/Alexandria. Two of the Shade Garden coordinators, Karen Smith and … Continue reading
Posted in Demonstration Gardens, Shade Garden
Tagged Eastern Redbud, English Ivy, Master Gardeners, pruning, Tree Stewards
Shade Garden News
by Dina Lehmann-Kim, Master Gardener When the Shade Garden held its work party April 16 to pot up plants for the Master Gardeners (MG) of Northern Virginia’s annual plant sale at Green Springs*, MG volunteers and other visitors were welcomed … Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden, Shade Garden
There is More to a Garden than Flowers and Foliage – Wildlife in the Shade Garden
Written by Mary Free, Certified Master Gardener In early spring, the Quarry/Shade Garden is hardly shady. Before the trees have leafed out, sun streams through bare branches beckoning the ephemerals to emerge and effloresce. As the canopy thickens, light dapples flowers of … Continue reading
Posted in Demonstration Gardens, Public Education, Shade Garden
Tagged 'Jacob Kline', (Sphyotrichum cordifolium, Apis mellifera, Argia fumipennis violacea, ASK before you ACT, Chesapeake Bay watershed, crab spiders, Creating Inviting Habitats, ephemerals, female violet dancer damselfly, Fisher's eastern chipmunk, Leucauge venusta, Monarda didyma, National Pollinator Week, northern brownsnake, orchard orb weaver spider, Poanes zabulon, Quarry/Shade Garden, Storeria dekayi dekayi, Tamias striatus fisheri, Terrapene carolina carolina, tiny syrphid fly, Troglodytes aedon, Wildlife of Arlington: A Natural Heritage Resource Inventory Technical Report, Zabulon skipper
Happy 25th Anniversary Quarry/Shade Garden!
Written by Mary Free, Certified Master Gardener Twenty-six years ago, Bon Air Park’s Quarry/Shade Garden was neither a quarry nor a garden. The 40‘ x 30’ site, once used as a quarry for inferior- grade building stone, sat idle and … Continue reading
March was here, but where is Spring?
Written by Mary Free, Certified Master Gardener After one of the warmest winters on record, the March Shade Garden (pictured below) in Bon Air Park was awash in color with a parade of blooming bulbs, spring ephemerals, ornamental trees and … Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden, Shade Garden
Tagged Arbor Day, Arlington Regional Master Naturalists, Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment, Beekeepers Association of Northern Virginia, Bon Air Park, Cooperative extension service, Junior Master Gardeners, Memorial Rose Garden, MGNV, National Pollinator Week, Northern Virginia, Shade Demonstration Garden, Winter
