Follow Us!
Blogs by our Master Gardeners
Subscribe by email
For Master Gardeners
VCE
Previous Post Archives
Tag Archives: Flowers
Can You Identify These Pollinators? Part 1: Bees, Wasps, Flies
During National Pollinator Week we challenged you to test your pollinator identification skills. Each day we featured a pollinator or two on our Facebook page with clues to the identity. This week we provide answers in three parts. Part 1 focuses on bees, wasps and flies. Continue reading
Posted in Pollinators
Tagged Apis mellifera, bees, Boltonia asteroides, Bombus auricomus, bumble bee, buzz pollination, digger wasp, Eastern bumble bee, entomology, Eupatroium hyssopifolium, European honey bee, flies, Flowers, fruit pollinators, gardening, Green Spring Gardens, ground-nesters, honeybee, hover flies, ladybugs, leafcutter bee, Ma, Master Gardener, MGNV, Monarda, nectar, pollen, pollinator, Scolia dubia, scolid wasps, Solidago canadensis, sonication, Sphex, sweat bee, syrphid fly, wasp
VIEW FROM THE GARDEN
It’s the time of year when Gardeners talk enthusiastically about “Spring Ephemerals,” using this term to describe native wildflowers, such as Virginia Bluebells, Trout Lily, Toothwort, Spring Beauty, Bloodroot, Trillium and Woodland Phlox. The word ‘ephemeral’ often means short-lived, but in the case of native plants, transitory is more accurate. Continue reading
Posted in Demonstration Gardens
Tagged Alexandria, Arlington, brook trout, bulbs, buttercup-like flowers, Caucasus, Chionodoxa luciliae, Dwarf Netted Iris, ephemerals, Eranthis hyemalis, Erythronium americanum, Flowers, gardening, Glencarlyn Community Library Garden, Glencarlyn Library Community Garden, Glory-of-the-snow, Grape Hyacinth, Hyacinth, Iris, Iris reticulata, maroon trillium, Master Gardener, Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia, MGNV Demonstration Gardens, mottled leaves, Musari botryoides, Narcissus, phlox, Puschkinia, Puschkinia scilloides, Scilla siberica, Shade/Quarry Garden, Siberian Squill, Snowdrops, spring, Spring Ephermerals, spring flower, spring minor bulbs, Striped Squill, Toadshade, trillium, Trillium grandiflorum, Trillium sessile, Trout Lily, tulip, tulips, Wake Robin, Winter aconite
Leave a comment
