Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Over 40 Years of Growing Gardens and Gardeners
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
The creeping habit of Moss Phlox can form a flower carpet as breathtaking in a residential rock garden or sprawling over rock walls as on the mountain slopes and open woodlands of its natural Mid-Atlantic habitat. (In NoVA, it's native to Fairfax County.)
Learn tips and tricks to interpreting the information on the plant tags that come with your houseplants.
Are you ready for spring? starting to plant your vegetable garden? Did you know that many vegetables you grow are actually fruits (our newest Glossary word)? Learn about the nature of fruits, their development, and the different types we find on our favorite plants and on our plates. Happy Gardening!
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Nothing sings spring like drifts of pink and blue Mertensia virginica carpeting the woodlands. Buds, coiled like scorpions' tails, open into nodding, bell-shaped flowers. Enjoy these ephemerals, which the Virginia Native Plant Society named Wildflower of the Year in 1989, before they fade away.
Learn about Square Foot Gardening™, a method of intensive gardening where vegetables, flowers and herbs grow in raised bed boxes divided into square foot sections by a grid that lies on top of the box.
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
This ornamental shrub, which is common throughout most of the Mid-Atlantic Region, produces small, fragrant yellow flowers that cluster at the nodes of bare stems before leaves appear in early spring. The Virginia Native Plant Society named Spicebush as Wildflower of the Year in 2006.
