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PERENNIAL: Monarda didyma (Scarlet Beebalm, Oswego Tea)
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic)
This member of the Mint family, native to eastern North America, grows in dense clusters along creeks and banks, as well as in thickets and woods. Prized by humans as an aromatic herb, its distinctive ragged red flowers are attractive to a variety of garden pollinators, especially when massed. Continue reading
PERENNIAL: Monarda didyma, Scarlet Beebalm
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic This member of the Mint family, native to eastern North America, grows in dense clusters along creeks and banks, as well as in thickets and woods. Prized by humans as an aromatic herb, … Continue reading
There is More to a Garden than Flowers and Foliage – Wildlife in the Shade Garden
Written by Mary Free, Certified Master Gardener In early spring, the Quarry/Shade Garden is hardly shady. Before the trees have leafed out, sun streams through bare branches beckoning the ephemerals to emerge and effloresce. As the canopy thickens, light dapples flowers of … Continue reading
Posted in Demonstration Gardens, Public Education, Shade Garden
Tagged 'Jacob Kline', (Sphyotrichum cordifolium, Apis mellifera, Argia fumipennis violacea, ASK before you ACT, Chesapeake Bay watershed, crab spiders, Creating Inviting Habitats, ephemerals, female violet dancer damselfly, Fisher's eastern chipmunk, Leucauge venusta, Monarda didyma, National Pollinator Week, northern brownsnake, orchard orb weaver spider, Poanes zabulon, Quarry/Shade Garden, Storeria dekayi dekayi, Tamias striatus fisheri, Terrapene carolina carolina, tiny syrphid fly, Troglodytes aedon, Wildlife of Arlington: A Natural Heritage Resource Inventory Technical Report, Zabulon skipper
