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Category Archives: Intern Projects
High-Rise Gardening: Nine Native Perennials to Brighten Your Balcony
Soaring above the horizon of Arlington County are thousands of high-rise apartments with balconies that can easily be transformed with Northern Virginia native plants into beautiful little gardens in the sky. Continue reading
Posted in Balcony/Container Gardening, Intern Projects, MG in the Garden, Native Plants, Urban Agriculture
Tagged Asclepias tuberosa, blue-eyed grass, Butterfly Weed, Dryopteris marginalis, foamflower, Geranium maculatum, Hairy Alumroot, Heath aster, Heuchera villosa ‘Autumn Bride’, marginal wood fern, Orange Coneflower, rudbeckia fulgida, Sedum ternatum, Sisyrinchium angustifolium, Symphyotrichum ericoides ‘Snow Flurry’, Tiarella cordifolia, Wild Geranium, Wild Stonecrop
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MGNV Interns Concoct Herbal Home Brews
Do you savor the flavorful taste and smell of freshly brewed homegrown herbal tea? Read about one of this year’s Intern projects focusing on growing herbs for tea at home. Continue reading
Posted in Herbs, Intern Projects, Recipes
Tagged Camellia sinensis, ginger, Herbal Teas, Stachys officinalis, Thymus x citriodorus ‘Variegatus’, wood betony, Zingiber officinale
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Garden Myth Busters! Compost Tea
THE MYTH: Compost tea suppresses pathogens and enriches garden soil.
THE REALITY: Read on to learn more! Continue reading
Posted in Garden Myth Busters!, Intern Projects, Public Education
Tagged compost tea, Garden Myths
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The Glencarlyn Pollinator Garden and the Importance of Pollinators
By Ana Karla Coudert & Shrive Beck, Extension Master Gardener Interns Photos © 2019 Elaine Mills What are pollinators and why are they important to humans? You may have heard that a butterfly is a pollinator, that pollinators flit from … Continue reading
Posted in Glencarlyn Library Community Garden, Intern Projects, Pollinators
Tagged Glencarlyn Community Library Garden, plants for pollinators, pollinators
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