Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening:
June 2025
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Vegetable gardening information and events for June.
Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening:
PERENNIAL: Baptisia australis (Blue Wild Indigo)
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This prized garden plant with attractive gray-green foliage produces beautiful racemes of showy, pea-like, indigo flowers (a new video shows a bumble bee navigating the blossoms) followed by blue-black seed pods. Blue Wild Indigo is native to NoVA (except for Prince William County).
Give Your Hell Strip a Heavenly Makeover With Durable, Native Plants!
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Enjoy Cindy Robertson's journey to transform the unsightly hell strip by her sidewalk into a heavenly native plant garden.
Rethinking Your Lawn, 2025
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The care of our lawns takes a heavy toll on our time and money as homeowners try to meet the unattainable goal of the perfect, unblemished expanse of green. Learn about the number of actions that climate-conscious gardeners can take to make their lawns more environmentally friendly.
SHRUB: Hydrangea quercifolia (Oakleaf Hydrangea)
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Although native to the southeastern United States, Oakleaf Hydrangea can be at home in many Mid-Atlantic landscapes. In late spring, white flowers bloom in showy pyramidal panicles, aging to pink in summer. Large, oak-like leaves display a variety of brilliant colors in fall.
Water, Water, Water
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There are different kinds of water to use for watering houseplants. Learn about the different types so you can decide what works best for you and your plant collection.