Tag Archives: pollinators

The Master Gardeners’ Bookshelf: The Pollinator Victory Garden

Posted on June 23, 2021 by MGNV Webmaster

If you are looking for planting strategies with the potential to improve the productivity of your vegetable garden, or if you have heard about “companion planting” and want to know what science supports, Plant Partners by Jessica Walliser is a good resource. Continue reading →

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Pollinators Under Threat

Posted on June 22, 2021 by MGNV Webmaster

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 →

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🐝 Happy Pollinator Week 2020! 🐛

Posted on June 22, 2020 by MGNV Webmaster

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 →

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The Glencarlyn Pollinator Garden and the Importance of Pollinators

Posted on August 28, 2019 by MGNV Webmaster

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 →

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