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Category Archives: Shade Garden
Sunny/Shade Garden Tour – This Sunday!
Come join us this Sunday, June 2 from 1-3 pm at the Sunny & Shade Garden Tour at Bon Air Park. Continue reading
Open House at the Sunny and Quarry Shade Gardens
Looking forward to seeing you at the Sunny and Shade Gardens Open House on October 14 from 1-3 p.m.!
Get ideas for the right plant for that special place in your yard:
Tour the gardens;
Get advice from Master Gardeners;
Programs by the VCE agent and activities for kids;
Take home some free seeds; and
Try your luck in a plant raffle. Continue reading
Posted in Shade Garden, Sunny Garden
Tagged Annual Tour, Bon Air Park, MGNV Sunny Garden, Open House, Quarry Shade Garden, Tour
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Continuing Tradition, Introducing Change: The Quarry Shade Garden
The new(ish) leadership of our Quarry Shade Demonstration Garden has reinvigorated the garden with more native plants. Continue reading
Posted in Gardener Profiles, MG in the Garden, Shade Garden
Tagged Aesculus parviflora, Asarum canadense, bottlebrush buckeye, Cercis canadensis, Chelone lyonii, Cornus sericea, Eastern Redbud, Golden Ragwort, Hypericum frondosum ‘Sunburst’, Packera aurea, pink turtlehead, red twig dogwood, St. John’s wort, wild ginger
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Unusual ‘Accents’ in the Shade Garden
The Shade Garden at Bon Air Park in Arlington is one of the smallest of the demonstration gardens maintained by the Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia. Located off Wilson Boulevard at 850 N. Lexington St., the garden hosts nearly 100 different plant varieties, a few of which may be unfamiliar, if not unusual, to visitors. Learn about three of the unusual plants in the garden. Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden, Shade Garden
Tagged Nectaroscordum siculum (honey garlic), Prodoxidae (Yucca moth), Shade Garden, Tradescantia virginiana (spiderwort), Yucca filamentosa (Adam’s needle)
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