Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Promoting environmentally sound gardening practices for over 35 years!
In 2021, Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia will introduce Landscape for Wildlife, a new series of educational posts on Facebook which will run weekly on Thursday mornings starting Jan. 7. Landscape for Wildlife will focus on the services that native species can provide to endangered pollinators, birds, small mammals, and other wildlife when homeowners include them in residential landscapes.
Many of the wildflowers seen along local roadways or on day-trips to the beach or mountains (those yellow, orange, purple or pink blurs) can be viewed close-up in the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden in Arlington, VA.
Judy Funderburk looks back at the year in the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden
If you think that this red-orange and black insect is a large milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus), then you would be correct.
