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High-Rise Gardening: Nine Native Perennials to Brighten Your Balcony
Soaring above the horizon of Arlington County are thousands of high-rise apartments with balconies that can easily be transformed with Northern Virginia native plants into beautiful little gardens in the sky. Continue reading
Posted in Balcony/Container Gardening, Intern Projects, MG in the Garden, Native Plants, Urban Agriculture
Tagged Asclepias tuberosa, blue-eyed grass, Butterfly Weed, Dryopteris marginalis, foamflower, Geranium maculatum, Hairy Alumroot, Heath aster, Heuchera villosa ‘Autumn Bride’, marginal wood fern, Orange Coneflower, rudbeckia fulgida, Sedum ternatum, Sisyrinchium angustifolium, Symphyotrichum ericoides ‘Snow Flurry’, Tiarella cordifolia, Wild Geranium, Wild Stonecrop
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PERENNIAL: Rudbeckia fulgida (Orange Coneflower)
Rudbeckia fulgida (Eastern or Orange Coneflower)
The lovely coneflower is native to Ilinois, Missouri and Arkansas but supports so many beneficial insects and goldfinches that it functions as a native in the sunny garden in our area. Continue reading
Taking a Closer Look at Roadside Wildflowers
Many of the wildflowers seen along local roadways or on day-trips to the beach or mountains (those yellow, orange, purple or pink blurs) can be viewed close-up in the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden in Arlington, VA. Continue reading
Posted in Glencarlyn Library Community Garden
Tagged Asclepias incarnata, Asclepias syriaca, Asclepias tuberosa, black-eyed Susans, blazing star, brown-eyed Susans, Butterfly Weed, common milkweed, dandelion, Eutrochium dubium, Heath aster, Hemerocallis fulva, ironweed, Joe-Pye Weed, liatris, liatris spicata, mullein, New England Aster, Orange Coneflower, orange daylily, rudbeckia fulgida, Rudbeckia triloba, Solidago altissima, Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’, Swamp Milkweed, Symphyotrichum ericoides, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, Tall goldenrod, Taraxacum officinale, Verbascum thapsus, Vernonia noveboracensis
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