With Earth Day approaching, you might consider creating a monarch butterfly waystation as your ongoing contribution. This is the perfect weekend to...
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Happy Birthday TJ! As one of the colonial nation’s first gardeners (most of them were in agriculture one way or another) Thomas Jefferson...
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The lingering cool weather has prolonged and also delayed the season of narcissus, the genus we love to call daffodils. Pert and always puckered up,...
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Native plants are thematic at this time of year when trilliums, mayapples, bloodroot and wood poppies burst onto the scene. The sixteen images of...
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Anyone who has strolled through the Virginia Bluebell trail at Bull Run Regional Park (soon to peak) can’t help but ask themselves, “why...
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Buying seeds to start indoors or for early planting (as in now) for the garden (peas, kale, cabbage, lettuce, radishes) can be as easy as picking up a...
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Call them what you will, volcanos, mountains or Irish thatched roof syndrome, mulching trees in the spring, especially from the “mow and...
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Back in the day, “growing your own” wasn’t necessarily related to food items, and seeds might be delivered in plastic baggies mixed...
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Gardening by the stars? Yes, you can. It’s as old as agriculture and still going strong if the Old Farmer’s Almanac (OFA) has anything to...
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Take advantage of the learning and networking opportunities available for free,and some for a small fee,at the local arboretums and gardens. Seeing...
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