Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening: February 2024
Vegetable Gardening information and events for February.
Vegetable Gardening information and events for February.
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have created a new series of short videos about locally invasive plants and native alternatives. This series looks at individual invasive plants, discussing how to remove them and suggesting native plants to consider as replacements. This month's post is on Bamboo (Bambusa, Phyllostachys, and Pseudosasa spp.).
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Summer sweet and spicy is the pleasant fragrance of this pollinator magnet that naturalizes readily in shady, damp places as well as coastal landscapes. Although not native to NoVA (it is common in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain), it grows well in cultivation here.
Today is Squirrel Appreciation Day. Despite their sometimes-destructive behavior digging up and eating cultivated plants and bulbs, squirrels provide ecological benefits like pest control and seed dispersal. Some of those seeds are contained in nuts, our newest Illustrated Glossary entry. Learn more about nuts, and gray, black and white squirrels!
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
This slow-growing, but long-lived, large tree is indigenous to river banks and flood plains and makes an attractive ornamental specimen for large landscapes with good fall color, distinctive exfoliating bark, and edible nuts. It also supports a variety of wildlife.