Buddie Ford Nature Center Garden Updates
Learn more about our newest demonstration garden.
Demonstration Gardens
Simpson Park Demonstration Garden Essays
Many of the essays collected here were written by Christa Watters, a long time volunteer at the beautiful Simpson Park Demonstration Garden.
Beautiful Ground Covers Video
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have recently created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We are sharing these videos on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month's topic. This month's focus is on native ground covers.
Beautiful Native Vines Video
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have recently created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We are sharing these videos on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month's topic. This month's focus is on native vines.
Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening: November 2022
Vegetable gardening information and events for November 2022
Beautiful Native Shrubs with Outstanding Fruit Video
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 on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month's topic. This month's focus is on native shrubs that bear outstanding fruit.
New! Buddie Ford Nature Center Garden in Alexandria
The Buddie Ford Nature Center Garden is our newest demonstration garden. In 2021 the Arlington Regional Master Naturalists (ARMN) adopted the garden as a demonstration garden. In 2022 Virginia Cooperative Extension and Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) also formally adopted it as a demonstration garden. It is the only joint ARMN-MGNV demonstration garden in the Arlington/Alexandria area.
Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening:
October 2022
Vegetable gardening information and events for October 2022
Planting Cover Crops at the Potomac Overlook Organic Vegetable Garden
The Organic Vegetable Garden uses cover crops as transition plantings to improve soil texture, water infiltration, and fertility in the garden. Planting of cover crops begins in September at the OVG.
Beautiful Fall Blooming Perennials Video
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 on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month's topic. This month's focus is on fall-blooming perennials.
Glencarlyn AutumnFest 2022 – Saturday – 10 to 3
Glencarlyn Library Community Garden
300 South Kensington Street
Arlington, Virginia 22204
Join us at our celebration of Fall and nature with plants, crafts, food and education! RAIN OR SHINE!
Organic Vegetable Garden Pepper Fest 2022 – Sunday – 1 to 4
Pepper Fest! Come celebrate the end of summer at the Organic Vegetable Garden!
September 18 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening: September 2022
Vegetable gardening information and events for September 2022
Four Blazing Stars for Summer to Fall
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden added four species of blazing stars to the renovated beds bordering the parking lot. These are all attractive perennial native wildflowers that homeowners may want to consider for their own gardens. The plants, which are all members of the aster family, are distinctive in that their feathery flower heads consist only of disk florets without accompanying ray flowers.
Barriers: Practical Ways to Discourage Garden Pests
Learn how the Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG) Master Gardeners protect the vegetable garden from the deer, rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, insects, and birds that want to enjoy the garden’s bounty.
Beautiful Ferns, Sedges, & Grasses Video
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 on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month's topic. This month's focus is on ferns, sedges, and grasses.
Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening: August 2022
Vegetable gardening information and events for August 2022
Beautiful Native Shrubs Video
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 on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month's topic. This month's focus is on native shrubs with outstanding flowers.
Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening: July 2022
Vegetable gardening information and events for July 2022
Glencarlyn Library Pollinator Garden Plan
The Pollinator Garden bed at Glencarlyn Library Garden was redesigned in 2019 as an intern project. The resources that were developed are posted for gardeners who would like to use them as inspiration for creating a similar bed in their own gardens.
Gardens that Educate and Inspire – New in 2022!
Celebrate National Gardening Week by taking a virtual tour of eight gardens maintained by Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia and six public gardens in the Washington metropolitan area to see examples of good gardening techniques and gain inspiration for your own home landscape. Extension Master Gardener Elaine Mills, a coordinator at the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden in Arlington, Virginia, showcases best management practices and design concepts employed by her fellow demonstration garden leaders in a wide variety of settings
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.