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There is More to a Garden than Flowers and Foliage – Wildlife in the Shade Garden

Posted on June 13, 2014 by

Written by Mary Free, Certified Master Gardener In early spring, the Quarry/Shade Garden is hardly shady. Before the trees have leafed out, sun streams through bare branches beckoning the ephemerals to emerge and effloresce. As the canopy thickens, light dapples flowers of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Demonstration Gardens, Public Education, Shade Garden | Tagged 'Jacob Kline', (Sphyotrichum cordifolium, Apis mellifera, Argia fumipennis violacea, ASK before you ACT, Chesapeake Bay watershed, crab spiders, Creating Inviting Habitats, ephemerals, female violet dancer damselfly, Fisher's eastern chipmunk, Leucauge venusta, Monarda didyma, National Pollinator Week, northern brownsnake, orchard orb weaver spider, Poanes zabulon, Quarry/Shade Garden, Storeria dekayi dekayi, Tamias striatus fisheri, Terrapene carolina carolina, tiny syrphid fly, Troglodytes aedon, Wildlife of Arlington: A Natural Heritage Resource Inventory Technical Report, Zabulon skipper | Leave a comment
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