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The Long View – Meditations on Gardening (A Venture in Guerrilla Gardening)
Not all gardeners have big plots. So sometimes we just exploit what’s nearby. It’s a bit iffy, but taking a little risk and adding a dollop of luck and patience, some digging and weeding and a mix of bought and donated plants can pay off. Witness the former parking lot island near my town house. It used to be a dog- and sun-seared plot of weedy grass that never looked good after the first green flush of spring. Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden, The Long View – Meditations on Gardening
Tagged allium bulbs, bees, butterflies, cleome, daffodils, Echinacea, lavender, Master Gardener, MGNV, pollinators, redbud, rosemary, Shasta daisies, tulips, zinnia
The Long View – Meditations on Gardening (This Odd Season Called Spring)
We’ve edged into May, smack in the middle of spring. The delight we gardeners take in the arrival of the season has been tested this year. After the long cold winter, spring finally arrived about mid-April. And then it had second thoughts and retreated, only to turn the heat up to almost 80 for a day or two and then retreat again. Rain has fallen pretty regularly. So while we can’t quite trust the season (what’s new about that? “April is the cruelest month,” said the poet in 1922) and we struggle with its fickleness, still we rejoice. And then we take stock of what winter meant to our particular plots: What died, what lived, how is the seasonal progression going this year? Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden, Public Education, The Long View – Meditations on Gardening
Tagged " spring bulbs, "April is the cruelest month, anemones, celandine poppies, cherry blossoms, crabapples, crocuses, daffodils, dogwoods, ephemerals, forest, gardening, Hellebores, hyacinths, magnolias, May, petals, poppies, redbuds, spring, squirrels, tulips, wood phlox
VIEW FROM THE GARDEN
It’s the time of year when Gardeners talk enthusiastically about “Spring Ephemerals,” using this term to describe native wildflowers, such as Virginia Bluebells, Trout Lily, Toothwort, Spring Beauty, Bloodroot, Trillium and Woodland Phlox. The word ‘ephemeral’ often means short-lived, but in the case of native plants, transitory is more accurate. Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandria, Arlington, brook trout, bulbs, buttercup-like flowers, Caucasus, Chionodoxa luciliae, Dwarf Netted Iris, ephemerals, Eranthis hyemalis, Erythronium americanum, Flowers, gardening, Glencarlyn Community Library Garden, Glencarlyn Library Community Garden, Glory-of-the-snow, Grape Hyacinth, Hyacinth, Iris, Iris reticulata, maroon trillium, Master Gardener, Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia, MGNV Demonstration Gardens, mottled leaves, Musari botryoides, Narcissus, phlox, Puschkinia, Puschkinia scilloides, Scilla siberica, Shade/Quarry Garden, Siberian Squill, Snowdrops, spring, Spring Ephermerals, spring flower, spring minor bulbs, Striped Squill, Toadshade, trillium, Trillium grandiflorum, Trillium sessile, Trout Lily, tulip, tulips, Wake Robin, Winter aconite
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The Long View – Meditations on Gardening (The End of Fall)
By Christa Watters One day the tulip magnolia next to my front door is still green – leaves fringed with yellow, spotted with brown here and there, yes, but basically still green, and on waking the next morning I see it still … Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden, The Long View – Meditations on Gardening
Tagged Alexandria, Arlington, bird feeders, black spot, bulbs, camellia, Christa Watters, chrysanthemums, crabapple tree, daffodils, fall gardening, foliage, garden meditations, gardening, garlic chives, Lilium seed pods, Master Gardeners, Monarda, peonies, rambler roses, summer phlox, thinning perennials, tulip magnolia, tulips, wildlife, wildlife plants
