Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia

#weeds #MGNV #landscapefabric Is landscape fabric a good way to suppress weeds for the home gardener?

#MasterGardener #MGNV #Glossary What is the dehiscent fruit characteristic of rhododendron, jessamine, jewelweed, buckeye, and yucca?

#MGNV Tried and True #NativePlant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic Golden sprays of flowers brighten cultivated and natural habitats across Eastern North America from late summer to frost, supporting myriad species of moths, butterflies, native bees, and other beneficial insects. For small space gardening, the cultivar ‘Fireworks’ is more compact, easier to contain, and flowers m...

#mgnv #mastergardeners #flowers When you admire a flower in the landscape or in a bouquet, you may think of color, fragrance, or beauty, but you probably are not thinking of flowers as one of the powerhouses that helped build the world as we know it. How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature’s Revolutionaries by David George Haskell is a fascinating look at how flowering p...

#MasterGardener #MGNV #Glossary Research into food webs finds that within ecoregions, a small percentage of plant genera feeds the vast majority of caterpillars, which in turn feed birds, other insects, frogs, lizards, and rodents. What is another name for caterpillar?