Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Over 40 Years of Growing Gardens and Gardeners
Come celebrate the end of summer at the Potomac Overlook Organic Vegetable Garden!
Extension Master Gardeners will answer questions about growing peppers, other beloved summer crops, composting, soil preparation, seed selection, protecting crops from insects and animals, and how to extend your harvest into the Fall.
More than three decades after a visionary Master Gardener dreamed of transforming an ugly area that once had been a road and parking lot in Alexandria, Simpson Park Demonstration Garden has won the city’s 2024 Community Beautification Award.
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Lavender flower clusters appear on new growth on this shrub from June to August, followed by clusters of fruit in show-stopping magenta in autumn. In the Mid-Atlantic Region, American Beauty-berry is reported to be native only in Virginia’s south and central Coastal Plain.
Tiny + Wild by Graham Laird Gardner describes how and why to create your own mini meadow in a small urban yard or neighborhood with homeowner association (HOA) requirements.
Vegetable gardening information and events for September.
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Fluffy, red-violet blooms atop 8-foot stalks draw bees and butterflies from mid-summer into fall. At home in wet meadows and freshwater marshes and along stream banks pretty much across the Mid-Atlantic Region, VNPS named New York Ironweed Wildflower of the Year in 1995.
