Bringing Fall Color Inside
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Bring houseplants with fall-colored foliage into your home to extend the season and enjoy the warm shades of red, orange, and yellow year-round.
PERENNIAL: Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal Flower)
#MGNV Tried and True #NativePlant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
This lovely wildflower, a hummingbird favorite, shines with brilliant scarlet flowers. Its natural habitat is floodplain forests, swamps, and wet meadows throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region. The Virginia Native Plant Society honored #CardinalFlower as Wildflower of the Year in 1991.
Join the Fall Fest at Duncan Library Garden!
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Join MGNV for our 2nd annual Fall Festival! We will have an “Ask the Master Gardener” table, kids' activities, a plant sale, free saplings, hand-crafted pottery, a food truck, tool sharpening, and more.
PERENNIAL: Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver’s-root)
#MGNV Tried and True #NativePlant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Elegant, easy-to-grow #Culver’s-root inhabits stream banks and moist meadows in the eastern U.S. and around the Great Lakes. Striking, candelabra-like inflorescences add vertical structure, and whorled leaves horizontal lines, to landscapes. Flowers attract myriad pollinators for a month in summer, followed by seed capsules.
Making Wise Plant Choices, Part 3: Cultivars & Hybrids, 2025
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Native plants, especially those identified as “keystone” species, may be best suited to changing environmental conditions and provide critical support to wildlife but cultivars of native plants don't always offer these same benefits.
PERENNIAL: Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot)
#MGNV Tried and True #NativePlant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
This showy mint family member boasts a fragrance similar to bergamot oranges. Its aromatic leaves are used in herbal tea. Flowers attract myriad pollinators, especially native bees. The Virginia Native Plant Society named #WildBergamot Wildflower of the Year in 1993.