October is Urban Agriculture Month
Join Friends of Urban Agriculture and partners to kickoff October Urban Agriculture Month!
PERENNIAL: Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver’s Root)
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Elegant, adaptable, easy-to-grow Culver’s-root inhabits stream banks, moist meadows, and prairies in the eastern and central U.S. concentrated in the Great Lakes region. The striking, candelabra-like inflorescences add vertical structure, and the whorled leaves horizontal lines, to the landscape. Flowers attract a myriad of pollinators for about a month in summer.
Featured Glossary word: Whorl
SHRUB: Vaccinium corymbosum ([Northern] Highbush Blueberry)
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Commercially valuable as a food crop, this species yields the best blueberries and autumn color when grown in full sun. Due to widespread hybridization, its distribution in Virginia has been difficult to map.
Featured Glossary word: Berry
Beautiful Fall-Blooming Perennials Video
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have recently created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We will be sharing these videos on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month's topic. This month's focus is on fall-blooming perennials.
Glencarlyn AutumnFest 2022 – Saturday – 10 to 3
Glencarlyn Library Community Garden
300 South Kensington Street
Arlington, Virginia 22204
Join us at our celebration of Fall and nature with plants, crafts, food and education! RAIN OR SHINE!