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🦇 Pollinators Under Threat 🐝
Pollinator Week 2020
Without pollinators and other insects, life as we know it would cease to exist. Learn how pollinators are under threat. Continue reading
Posted in Beneficial Insects, Pollinators
Tagged 2020 Pollinator Week, pollinators, Threats to pollinators
🐝 Happy Pollinator Week 2020! 🐛
Pollinator Week 2020: Happy Pollinator Week!
Join the Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia in observing this week, June 22–28, 2020, by learning more about some of the insects, birds, bats and other small mammals that pollinate at least 80 percent of our flowering plants and about 33 percent of our food crops as well as what you can do to sustain pollinators. Continue reading
Posted in Beneficial Insects, Pollinators
Tagged National Pollinator Week, pollinators
The Glencarlyn Pollinator Garden and the Importance of Pollinators
By Ana Karla Coudert & Shrive Beck, Extension Master Gardener Interns Photos © 2019 Elaine Mills What are pollinators and why are they important to humans? You may have heard that a butterfly is a pollinator, that pollinators flit from … Continue reading
Blooming RED, White, and Blue
As promised, here is a follow up to our Planning for the Red, White and Blue series on patriotic gardens. Enjoy your holiday and our pictures of some of the red, white, and blue flowers that we found blooming in local gardens on July 4 of years past. Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden
Tagged Achillea millefolium, Archilochus colubris, Lonicera sempervirens, Monarda didyma ‘Jacob Cline’, Patriotic gardens, pollinators, Red Flower Carpet®, red flowers, Rosa ‘Noare’, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Salvia microphylla, Scarlet Beebalm, small-leaf sage, trumpet honeysuckle, yarrow
