Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Promoting environmentally sound gardening practices for over 35 years!
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
This shorter Joe-pye-weed has beautiful pink-headed stems that wave in the summer breeze and provide landing platforms attractive to butterflies and other insect pollinators.
Featured Glossary word: Pappus
Summer is waning or fall just beginning and our gardens are awash in the bright and muted colors of asters, goldenrods, lobelias, pink muhly, sages, turtleheads, and zinnias, and with due diligence, relatively free of creeping weeds. But then you return home from a weekend getaway and find some stout, green, budded stems of notable height rising above the flowers in your perennial bed or butterfly garden.
Most people, adults and children alike, recognize the dandelion, but how well do they really know it?
