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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
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For the Birds, Butterflies, and Hummingbirds
Creating Inviting Habitats – this Virginia Cooperative Extension publication examines the habitat requirements for butterflies and birds common to our local area. In fact, most of the plants and wildlife were photographed in Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax, Virginia. Creating Inviting Habitats is especially relevant during National Pollinator Week — June 18–24 — as well as in the 100th year of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Continue reading
Posted in Pollinators
Tagged adult Monarch, Asclepias tuberosa, bird baths, chrysalis, Creating Inviting Habitats, house wrens, Lantana, Monarch caterpillar, National Pollinator Week, nest boxes, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Year of the Bird
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World Migratory Bird Day – May 9 and 10
Written by Mary Free, Certified Master Gardener The migration of birds northward peaks in April and May, and we celebrate World Migratory Bird Day May 9 and 10. Initiated in 2006 and administered by the United Nations Environment Programme, it … Continue reading
Posted in Public Education
Tagged Archilochus colubris, awnings, bird baths, bird deaths, bird feeders, bird migration, bird-building collisions, birdhouses, Black-capped Chickadee, Cardinalis cardinals, Christa Watters, communication towers, Conservation, Downy Woodpecker, glass atriums, Lights Out DC, migratory seasons, Northern Cardinal, outdoor shutters, Picoides pubescens, Poecile atricapillus, power lines, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Sphyrapicus varius, Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, UV reflecting glass, Wildlife, wind turbines, window decals, windows, world migratory bird day, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
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