Glencarlyn Library Garden Spring Celebration and Plant Sale
Come celebrate Spring in the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden!
Saturday, April 20, 2024 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (Rain or Shine)
GROUND COVER: Phlox subulata (Moss Phlox)
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.)
Interpreting the Houseplant Plant Tag
Learn tips and tricks to interpreting the information on the plant tags that come with your houseplants.
New to the Glossary: FRUIT
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!
PERENNIAL: Mertensia virginica (Virginia Bluebells)
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.
All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition
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.