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The Long View – Meditations on Gardening: Fall Reckoning for the Gardener
Fall Reckoning for the Gardener
Fall is the time to tally up the results of our gardening year. We plan, we plant, we weed, prune, maintain. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Life happens, and sometimes we don’t attend to all the chores we meant to do. Continue reading
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Tagged Agastache, asters, bumblebee, Christa Watters, chrysanthemums, Dianthus japonica, Fireworks goldenrod, green bottle fly, Iris, Monarch, salvia, zinnia
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High Summer at Simpson Gardens
By Master Gardener Christa Watters for the Simpson Crew We’ve survived a long siege of fairly relentless heat this summer as July brought day after day of 90-degrees and higher, with humidity also pushing the limits. Some plants love the … Continue reading
June at Simpson Gardens
By Master Gardener Christa Watters for the Simpson Crew Each of Simpson’s many and various garden beds has its special time for looking wonderful. One of my favorite plants this time of year is a smallish tree that grows near … Continue reading
World Migratory Bird Day – May 9 and 10
Written by Mary Free, Certified Master Gardener The migration of birds northward peaks in April and May, and we celebrate World Migratory Bird Day May 9 and 10. Initiated in 2006 and administered by the United Nations Environment Programme, it … Continue reading
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Tagged Archilochus colubris, awnings, bird baths, bird deaths, bird feeders, bird migration, bird-building collisions, birdhouses, Black-capped Chickadee, Cardinalis cardinals, Christa Watters, communication towers, Conservation, Downy Woodpecker, glass atriums, Lights Out DC, migratory seasons, Northern Cardinal, outdoor shutters, Picoides pubescens, Poecile atricapillus, power lines, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Sphyrapicus varius, Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, UV reflecting glass, Wildlife, wind turbines, window decals, windows, world migratory bird day, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
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