Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia

#mgnv #transplanting #vegetablegardening This month, we address hardening off, the process of exposing these transplants to outdoor conditions.

#MasterGardener #MGNV #Glossary What adjective describes a plant that grows in dense tufts?

Meet with VCE Arlington/Alexandria Extension Master Gardeners to choose the perfect plants for your garden!  If you are planning to start or add to a native plant collection, they will help with plant selection, planting advice, and answer all your questions.  In addition, there will be artists, food vendors, and bake sales.

#MGNV Tried and True #NativePlant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic This graceful plant is the most shade-tolerant native grass, and its distinctive flowering spikes and seed heads are a lovely ornamental feature, showing especially well when backlit. It naturally grows in dry woodlands and barrens mostly north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

#America250 #nativetrees #MGNV As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, not many trees from the late 1700s survive in Alexandria and Arlington. Almost all succumbed by the thousands to farming, logging, industrial and residential development, and climate change. But there are a few here and there, bearing witness to the generations of people and events that over the last 250...