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Word of the Week: Follicle
If you grow milkweed to attract monarch butterflies to your garden, then you know that they also attract milkweed bugs. You often find these bright red and black insects massed on the milkweed “pods” trying to gain access to the seeds within. But, do you know that the fruit of the milkweed is not actually a pod but rather a follicle? Continue reading
Posted in Illustrated Glossary, Word of the Week, WoW
Tagged Aggregate Fruit, Amsonia tabernaemontana, Apocynum cannabinum, Aquilegia canadensis, Asclepias incarnata, Asclepias syriaca, Asclepias tuberosa, Baptisia australis, etaerio, follicle, Magnolia virginiana, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
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Landscape for Wildlife: A New MGNV Facebook Series
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. Continue reading
Posted in Landscape for Wildlife, Wildlife
Tagged American Beauty-berry, Aromatic Aster, Asclepias syriaca, Callicarpa americana, common milkweed, Danaus plexippus, Echinacea purpurea, Monarch caterpillar, purple coneflower, Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
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Taking a Closer Look at Roadside Wildflowers
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. Continue reading
Posted in Glencarlyn Library Community Garden
Tagged Asclepias incarnata, Asclepias syriaca, Asclepias tuberosa, black-eyed Susans, blazing star, brown-eyed Susans, Butterfly Weed, common milkweed, dandelion, Eutrochium dubium, Heath aster, Hemerocallis fulva, ironweed, Joe-Pye Weed, liatris, liatris spicata, mullein, New England Aster, Orange Coneflower, orange daylily, rudbeckia fulgida, Rudbeckia triloba, Solidago altissima, Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’, Swamp Milkweed, Symphyotrichum ericoides, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, Tall goldenrod, Taraxacum officinale, Verbascum thapsus, Vernonia noveboracensis
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’Tis The Time of Year . . .
‘Tis the time of year . . . to look back and to look forward. To celebrate seasons past and those to come. A time when days grow shorter, and the nights grow longer. A time to remember the beauty of fall, drop into the mystery of winter, anticipate the magic of spring and imagine the surprises of summer. Continue reading
Posted in Glencarlyn Library Community Garden, MG in the Garden
Tagged Asclepias incarnata, Asclepias syriaca, Asclepias tuberosa, common milkweed, Cornus sericea ‘Bailyei, Orange Milkweed, red twig dogwood, Swamp Milkweed
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