tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59852507820253049852024-03-13T09:10:14.561-07:00National Capital Area Garden Clubs, Inc.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985250782025304985.post-26492485144892127102021-05-01T12:57:00.002-07:002021-05-01T12:58:08.444-07:00<h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #a01111; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Herbs Attract and Support Beneficial Insects in the Garden</h1><div>by Peggy Riccio <a href="http://pegplant.com">pegplant.com</a></div><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_12270" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); display: inline; float: left; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 11px 1.7em 0px; max-width: 96%; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 3px 10px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 310px;"><a href="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/thymeflowers.jpg?ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-12270" class="wp-image-12270 size-medium" data-attachment-id="12270" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 6s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1527926314","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"25","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="thymeflowers" data-large-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/thymeflowers.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/thymeflowers.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/thymeflowers.jpg?fit=3024%2C3024&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3024,3024" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2018/07/01/herbs-in-the-garden-attract-beneficial-insects-and-pollinators/thymeflowers/" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/thymeflowers.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/thymeflowers.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/thymeflowers.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/thymeflowers.jpg?resize=768%2C768&ssl=1 768w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/thymeflowers.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&ssl=1 1024w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/thymeflowers.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1 800w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/thymeflowers.jpg?w=1500&ssl=1 1500w" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); height: auto; margin: 2px 0px 0px; max-width: 98.5%; width: auto;" width="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-12270" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Small thyme flowers</p></div><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The herbs in my garden live among the annuals, perennials, vegetables, and shrubs. I do not have a separate, formal herb garden. Every new herb plant gets tucked in any space I can find. I harvest them to use them fresh in the kitchen and for floral arrangements. By summer, many of my herbs are blooming along with everything else but that’s okay, they still serve a purpose. Even if I didn’t get to harvest them, they are helping the rest of the garden by attracting and supporting beneficial insects.<span id="more-15132" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Flowering herbs can attract beneficial insects that will destroy the “bad” bugs. These beneficial insects are either predators, i.e., they eat harmful bugs, or parasites–they lay their eggs in or on the “bad” bug which release larvae that consume the bug.</p><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_15139" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); display: inline; float: right; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 11px; max-width: 96%; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 3px 10px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 235px;"><a href="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/dill-rotated.jpg?ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="dill" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15139" class="wp-image-15139 size-medium" data-attachment-id="15139" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone XR","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1561218897","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.25","iso":"25","shutter_speed":"0.0053475935828877","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="dill" data-large-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/dill-rotated.jpg?fit=500%2C667&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/dill-rotated.jpg?fit=225%2C300&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/dill-rotated.jpg?fit=3024%2C4032&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3024,4032" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2021/05/01/herbs-attract-beneficial-insects/dill-3/" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" src="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/dill.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/dill-rotated.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1 225w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/dill-rotated.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&ssl=1 768w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/dill-rotated.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&ssl=1 1152w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/dill-rotated.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&ssl=1 1536w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/dill-rotated.jpg?resize=600%2C800&ssl=1 600w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/dill-rotated.jpg?w=1000&ssl=1 1000w" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); height: auto; margin: 2px 0px 0px; max-width: 98.5%; width: auto;" width="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-15139" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dill flowers</p></div><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many of these beneficial insects are small, thus preferring easily accessible nectar chambers in small herb flowers. In many cases the adult insects need the nectar and pollen of the herb flower while the “babies” or larval stage eat the insects we don’t want in the garden. For example, the larval stage of ladybugs, which look like mini alligators, consume aphids, many beetle larvae, and spider mites, among others. One can attract ladybugs into the garden by planting cilantro, dill, fennel, oregano, thyme, and yarrow so the adult form, the ladybug, can enjoy the pollen.</p><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lacewings are beautiful slender green insects with translucent wings. Their larvae, known as aphid lions, eat a large number of aphids –thus they have a lion’s appetite — and many beetle larvae to name a few. Lacewings are attracted to angelica, caraway, tansy, yarrow, dill, fennel, and cilantro.</p><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Parasitic wasps are small, non-stinging wasps. There are many types but they all destroy pests by laying eggs inside or on the pest. The eggs hatch to release larvae that consume the prey, eventually killing it. Parasitic wasps will destroy tomato hornworms, bagworms, cabbage worms, Japanese beetles, and squash vine borers. The wasps are attracted to dill, fennel, lemon balm, thyme, yarrow, and cilantro.</p><div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_15141" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); display: inline; float: left; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 11px 1.7em 0px; max-width: 96%; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 3px 10px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 310px;"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/gardenApril2017-089.jpg?ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="lemon balm" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15141" class="size-medium wp-image-15141" data-attachment-id="15141" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 6s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1492082748","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"25","shutter_speed":"0.0030211480362538","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="gardenApril2017 089" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/gardenApril2017-089.jpg?fit=500%2C375&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/gardenApril2017-089.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/gardenApril2017-089.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4032,3024" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2021/05/01/herbs-attract-beneficial-insects/gardenapril2017-089/" height="225" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/gardenApril2017-089.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/gardenApril2017-089.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/gardenApril2017-089.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/gardenApril2017-089.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/gardenApril2017-089.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/gardenApril2017-089.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/gardenApril2017-089.jpg?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1 800w" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); height: auto; margin: 2px 0px 0px; max-width: 98.5%; width: auto;" width="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-15141" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lemon balm</p></div><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tachinid flies look like houseflies but as parasites, they destroy many kinds of caterpillars, Colorado potato beetles, cucumber beetles, Mexican bean beetles, and Japanese beetles in the same manner as parasitic wasps. The flies prefer cilantro, dill, fennel, parsley, feverfew, and chamomile.</p><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hover or syrphid flies look like small wasps because they have yellow bands but they don’t sting. The adults–the flies–will “hover” as they drink nectar from dill, fennel, feverfew, lavender, mint, yarrow, and cilantro flowers. The larvae will consume aphids, cabbage worms, other caterpillars, and mealy bugs.</p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_12272" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px auto 1.7em; max-width: 96%; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 3px 10px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 510px;"><a href="https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cilantro-with-hover-fly.jpg?ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-12272" class="wp-image-12272 size-large" data-attachment-id="12272" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 6s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1466760482","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"25","shutter_speed":"0.0041322314049587","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="cilantro with hover fly" data-large-file="https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cilantro-with-hover-fly.jpg?fit=500%2C375&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cilantro-with-hover-fly.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cilantro-with-hover-fly.jpg?fit=2823%2C2117&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2823,2117" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2018/07/01/herbs-in-the-garden-attract-beneficial-insects-and-pollinators/cilantro-with-hover-fly/" height="355" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" src="https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cilantro-with-hover-fly.jpg?resize=500%2C375&ssl=1" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cilantro-with-hover-fly.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&ssl=1 1024w, https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cilantro-with-hover-fly.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cilantro-with-hover-fly.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w, https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cilantro-with-hover-fly.jpg?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1 800w, https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cilantro-with-hover-fly.jpg?w=1500&ssl=1 1500w" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); height: auto; margin: 2px 0px 0px; max-width: 98.5%; width: auto;" width="473" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-12272" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hover fly in the cilantro</p></div><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many aromatic, perennial herbs, such as oregano, thyme, and lemon balm, are not eaten by deer and small animals so they become permanent fixtures or “houses” for beneficial insects. Plus herbs are usually planted in bunches or become small shrubs, providing a large “neighborhood” for these insects.</p><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, despite the number of plants in the garden, these insects will only stay if there is a need, i.e., food for them, and if the surroundings are hospitable. Beneficial insects seek large populations of bad bugs in order to feed their own population. Some beneficial insects wait to lay eggs until there is enough “food” so it may be that the appearance of many aphids is the trigger to have ladybugs increase their own population because they now know there is plenty of “food.” In other words, if there a lot of aphids on bearded irises, wait to see if many ladybugs will arrive on the scene to correct the problem before reaching for an insecticide.</p><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spraying chemicals may kill or alter the balance of beneficial insects. It is now known that plants that are under attack by bad bugs release chemicals which are signals to the particular type of beneficial insect that would be needed to correct the problem. There may be a little or minimal plant damage in order for the beneficial insects to receive the signal to come to that plant.</p><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This year, plant more herbs in your garden. Herbs are useful for you and for your garden by attracting and supporting the “good guys.”</p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985250782025304985.post-77639097432873475032021-03-31T13:23:00.008-07:002021-03-31T13:29:44.035-07:00FRED, The Bleeding Heart<h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Bleeding Heart </span>by Peg Riccio</h1><br /><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/dicentra.jpg?ssl=1" style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-11187" data-attachment-id="11187" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 6s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1492024297","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Dicentra" data-large-file="https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/dicentra.jpg?fit=500%2C375&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/dicentra.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/dicentra.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1" data-orig-size="4032,3024" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2017/04/15/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-bleeding-heart/dicentra/" height="225" loading="lazy" src="https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/dicentra.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-right: 11px; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="300" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #38761d; color: #f3f3f3;">Last fall, a friend gave me the root of her bleeding heart plant she called <u>Fred.</u> Unfortunately it was some time before I could get the root from her that by the time I did, it was very dry and hard. I soaked it in a tub of water for a day before I planted it. It was so desiccated, I did not think it would make it through the winter. But this spring I was pleasantly surprised by a tuft of foliage peeking through the soil. Fred is alive! Since March, Fred has produced beautiful fern-like leaves and nodding racemes of pendulous blossoms. Each blossom looks like an earring or a puffy locket on a chain and is actually comprised of two outer rose-colored petals and the two inner white petals. If you turn the flower upside down and pull the rose petals apart you will see the lady in a bath. Lady-in-a-bath is another moniker for bleeding heart.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lady-in-a-bath.jpg?ssl=1" style="background-color: #38761d; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignright wp-image-11189 size-medium" data-attachment-id="11189" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 6s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1492173070","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"320","shutter_speed":"0.066666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="lady-in-a-bath" data-large-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lady-in-a-bath.jpg?fit=500%2C667&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lady-in-a-bath.jpg?fit=225%2C300&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lady-in-a-bath.jpg?fit=3024%2C4032&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3024,4032" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2017/04/15/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-bleeding-heart/lady-in-a-bath/" height="300" loading="lazy" src="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lady-in-a-bath.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 11px; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="225" /></a></span></span></span><p></p><p style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #38761d; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Bleeding heart is an herbaceous perennial that prefers a woodsy environment with moist soil that is high in organic matter. Some shade is best, can be morning sun and afternoon shade or dappled light. With such delicate foliage, you would think that rabbits would decimate bleeding hearts but both rabbits and deer do not seem interested in this perennial. However, by June the leaves do get yellow and ratty and eventually the plant goes dormant as summer’s heat arrives. In order to prevent a gap in the garden, other herbaceous perennials such as hardy geraniums or hostas can grow to fill in the gap during the summer or annuals can be planted in its place.</span></p><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985250782025304985.post-73973297685518152462020-11-21T06:52:00.003-08:002020-11-21T07:04:35.808-08:00<h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Growing Ginger for Gingerbread Cooki</span><span style="font-size: large;">es</span></h1><div>by Peg Riccio, NCA Blog Editor</div><div>November 21, 2020</div><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbreadmen.jpg?ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="gingerbread men" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-14709" data-attachment-id="14709" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1605874042","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="gingerbreadmen" data-large-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbreadmen.jpg?fit=426%2C427&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbreadmen.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbreadmen.jpg?fit=426%2C427&ssl=1" data-orig-size="426,427" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2020/11/21/growing-ginger-for-gingerbread-cookies/gingerbreadmen/" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbreadmen.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbreadmen.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbreadmen.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbreadmen.jpg?w=426&ssl=1 426w" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-right: 11px; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="300" /></a>When we think of gingerbread, we think of breads, cakes, and little edible men. But what is gingerbread really? Where does the “ginger” come from? Is this something we can grow here in the DC metro area? To celebrate National Gingerbread Cookie Day today, let’s explore ginger the spice plant.<span id="more-14706" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The term “gingerbread” is from Latin “zingiber” via Old French “gingebras,” referring to preserved ginger. The term “zingiber” is derived from Greek “zingiberis” which comes from the Sanskrit name of the spice “singabera.”</p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ginger (<em style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zingiber officinale</em>) is an herbaceous perennial plant native to southeastern Asia. The plant can grow up to 4 feet tall and has sharp, thin leaves. The plant is grown for its roots which are really modified stems called rhizomes. You may have seen these knobby rhizomes in grocery stores in the produce section.</p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ginger was first cultivated in China and spread to Europe via the Silk Road. In medieval England, gingerbread meant preserved ginger and was not applied to desserts until the 15th century. Ginger was the most common spice in medieval Europe, after pepper.</p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Making gingerbread cookies in the shape of people is credited to Queen Elizabeth I who had them made to resemble and to serve to visiting foreign dignitaries. These became so popular that baking gingerbread cookies in the shapes of people and animals became a staple at European medieval fairs. Over time, the festivals came to be known as Gingerbread Fairs and the cookies were called fairings.</p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From gingerbread figures it was inevitable that the next step would be to build gingerbread houses. Gingerbread houses originated in Germany in the 16<span style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); bottom: 1ex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> century and are just large, rectangular-shaped cookies “glued” together with frosting. These are highly decorated with sweets and became associated with Christmas tradition. As German immigrants settled in America the tradition continued particularly with the Pennsylvania Germans.</p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbread-house-286157_640.jpg?ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="gingerbread house" class="alignright wp-image-14719 size-full" data-attachment-id="14719" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1605949211","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="gingerbread-house-286157_640" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbread-house-286157_640.jpg?fit=500%2C332&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbread-house-286157_640.jpg?fit=300%2C199&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbread-house-286157_640.jpg?fit=573%2C381&ssl=1" data-orig-size="573,381" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2020/11/21/growing-ginger-for-gingerbread-cookies/gingerbread-house-286157_640/" height="332" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" src="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbread-house-286157_640.jpg?resize=500%2C332&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbread-house-286157_640.jpg?w=573&ssl=1 573w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerbread-house-286157_640.jpg?resize=300%2C199&ssl=1 300w" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 11px; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="500" /></a></p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the United States, the first known recipes for gingerbread are in the <em style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American Cookery</em> by Amelia Simmons (1796). These were in loaf form because molasses, which was less expensive than sugar, produced a softer cake or loaf. George Washington’s mother, Mary Ball Washington, served her recipe for gingerbread to the Marquis de Lafayette when he visited her in Fredericksburg, Virginia. During the American revolutionary war, soldiers received ginger in their food rations.</p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gingerbread now refers to baked goods made with ginger and other spices such as cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses. Gingerbread can be a loaf, cake, cookie (soft), or biscuit (hard like ginger snaps or gingerbread men).</p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although you can buy ginger rhizomes and ground ginger at the store, you can also grow ginger. It takes about 8 months for the plant to develop the rhizomes for harvest so in the DC metro area, one has to begin indoors in the early spring.</p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adria Bordas, horticulture extension agent with the <a href="https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/neighborhood-community-services/virginia-cooperative-extension" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fairfax County Virginia Cooperative Extension Office</a>, recently posted her experiences on Facebook. She bought three ginger rhizomes from a grocery store in March and harvested 5 pounds of ginger in November.</p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ginger does better if you soak the rhizomes in water before you plant them. This method re-hydrates them and removes any chemicals that prohibit sprouting,” she said. After soaking overnight, Adria planted her rhizomes in a small container with a light potting mix called <a href="https://www.promixgardening.com/en-us" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">pro-mix.</a></p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerone.jpg?ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #6c272a; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: black dotted 1px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="rhizomes" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14713" class="wp-image-14713 size-medium" data-attachment-id="14713" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="gingerone" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerone.jpg?fit=500%2C889&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerone.jpg?fit=169%2C300&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerone.jpg?fit=1080%2C1920&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1080,1920" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2020/11/21/growing-ginger-for-gingerbread-cookies/gingerone/" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px" src="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerone.jpg?resize=169%2C300&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerone.jpg?resize=169%2C300&ssl=1 169w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerone.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&ssl=1 576w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerone.jpg?resize=768%2C1365&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerone.jpg?resize=864%2C1536&ssl=1 864w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerone.jpg?resize=450%2C800&ssl=1 450w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerone.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerone.jpg?w=1000&ssl=1 1000w" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); height: auto; margin: 2px 0px 0px; max-width: 98.5%; width: auto;" width="169" /></a></div><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;">The three original rhizomes Adria purchased from the store. Photo courtesy of Adria Bordas</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;">.</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">“Plant so the rhizomes are vertical, not flat, so sprouts shoot up. It can take 2 weeks before you see sprouts so don’t get discouraged.” Adria planted hers about 2 inches deep. Because she had a skylight in her living room, she was able to position the container to receive enough light and warmth. In May, she re-planted them outside in a 20-inch container with pro-mix and a little bit of compost.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“They do better in part shade than full sun,” she said. “The only amendment I added was <a href="https://www.merrifieldgardencenter.com/product/bumper-crop/" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bumper Crop</a> in the summer.”</p><div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_14715" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; display: inline; float: left; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 11px 1.7em 0px; max-width: 96%; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 3px 10px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 179px;"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingertwo.jpg?ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="ginger plant" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14715" class="wp-image-14715 size-medium" data-attachment-id="14715" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="gingertwo" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingertwo.jpg?fit=500%2C889&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingertwo.jpg?fit=169%2C300&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingertwo.jpg?fit=1080%2C1920&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1080,1920" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2020/11/21/growing-ginger-for-gingerbread-cookies/gingertwo/" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px" src="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingertwo.jpg?resize=169%2C300&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingertwo.jpg?resize=169%2C300&ssl=1 169w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingertwo.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&ssl=1 576w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingertwo.jpg?resize=768%2C1365&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingertwo.jpg?resize=864%2C1536&ssl=1 864w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingertwo.jpg?resize=450%2C800&ssl=1 450w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingertwo.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingertwo.jpg?w=1000&ssl=1 1000w" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); height: auto; margin: 2px 0px 0px; max-width: 98.5%; width: auto;" width="169" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-14715" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adria’s ginger plant outside in the summer. Photo courtesy of Adria Bordas.</p></div><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From her three rhizomes, Adria harvested 5 pounds of fresh ginger in November. Already she has made gingerbread with fresh grated ginger and banana bread with ginger. She is thinking of making a ginger syrup and highly recommends chicken, garlic, and ginger on the grill. “I just use a cheese grater or a kitchen plane to shred the ginger but I have found that if I freeze them first and then grate, it is much easier.”</p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ginger can be stored in a dry, cool location as is or it can be frozen, either whole, peeled and sliced, or as a paste. Fresh, unpeeled ginger can be stored in the fridge for up to 3 weeks. Ginger can also be dried and powdered.</p><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After hearing about Adria’s experience, I have been inspired to start growing ginger in March indoors. I will just buy a few rhizomes at the local grocery store and hopefully, this time next year, I will have fresh ginger to make gingerbread cookies for National Gingerbread Cookie Day in November 2021.</p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_14716" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); clear: both; color: #4f460c; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px auto 1.7em; max-width: 96%; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 3px 10px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 510px;"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerthree.jpg?ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="ginger" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14716" class="wp-image-14716 size-large" data-attachment-id="14716" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="gingerthree" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerthree.jpg?fit=500%2C348&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerthree.jpg?fit=300%2C209&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerthree.jpg?fit=1080%2C751&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1080,751" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2020/11/21/growing-ginger-for-gingerbread-cookies/gingerthree/" data-recalc-dims="1" height="348" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" src="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerthree.jpg?resize=500%2C348&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerthree.jpg?resize=1024%2C712&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerthree.jpg?resize=300%2C209&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerthree.jpg?resize=768%2C534&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerthree.jpg?resize=800%2C556&ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gingerthree.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); height: auto; margin: 2px 0px 0px; max-width: 98.5%; width: auto;" width="500" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-14716" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Five pounds of fresh ginger harvested in November. Photo courtesy of Adria</p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985250782025304985.post-61628932042967554232020-10-05T13:18:00.001-07:002020-10-06T06:37:37.305-07:00Pretty Poisonous Pokeweed<h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #a01111; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Pretty Poisonous Pokeweed</h1><span face="abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif" style="color: #b03f45; font-size: xx-small;">by Peg Ricco, Pegplant.com Member of Camelot GC, District III</span><br /><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_12487" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; display: inline; float: left; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 11px 1.7em 0px; max-width: 96%; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 3px 10px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 235px;"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedmatureberries.jpg?ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-12487" class="wp-image-12487 size-medium" data-attachment-id="12487" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 6s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1536929310","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"32","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"8"}" data-image-title="pokeweedmatureberries" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedmatureberries-e1537487583587.jpg?fit=500%2C667&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedmatureberries-e1537487583587.jpg?fit=225%2C300&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedmatureberries-e1537487583587.jpg?fit=3024%2C4032&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3024,4032" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2018/09/30/pokeweed/pokeweedmatureberries/" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" src="https://i1.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedmatureberries-e1537487583587-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedmatureberries-e1537487583587.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1 225w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedmatureberries-e1537487583587.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedmatureberries-e1537487583587.jpg?resize=600%2C800&ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedmatureberries-e1537487583587.jpg?w=1000&ssl=1 1000w, https://i0.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedmatureberries-e1537487583587.jpg?w=1500&ssl=1 1500w" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); height: auto; margin: 2px 0px 0px; max-width: 98.5%; width: auto;" width="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-12487" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mature pokeweed berries</p></div><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A common sight in Virginia now are the purple berries hanging from green shrubs along the roadside. Pokeweed (<em style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Phytolacca decandra</em>) is an herbaceous perennial, considered a weed by most gardeners. <span id="more-14392" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Pokeweed is easy to find on roadsides, fields, and ditches as birds eat the berries and drop the seeds. From summer to fall, pokeweed blooms small white flowers on peduncles (stems) making them stick out. In the fall, the berries appear first as flatten green balls with a dimple in the center on hot pink racemes and later, as if they had been inflated, as deep purple, ¼ -inch balls on red racemes. The contrast of purple and red or green and pink is so pretty that pokeweed is often used for fall floral arrangements.</p><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_12488" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; display: inline; float: right; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 11px; max-width: 96%; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 3px 10px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 235px;"><a href="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedimmatureberries.jpg?ssl=1" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #7f2d32; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-12488" class="wp-image-12488 size-medium" data-attachment-id="12488" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 6s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1536929291","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"25","shutter_speed":"0.025","title":"","orientation":"8"}" data-image-title="pokeweedimmatureberries" data-large-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedimmatureberries-e1537487605123.jpg?fit=500%2C667&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedimmatureberries-e1537487605123.jpg?fit=225%2C300&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedimmatureberries-e1537487605123.jpg?fit=3024%2C4032&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3024,4032" data-permalink="https://pegplant.com/2018/09/30/pokeweed/pokeweedimmatureberries/" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" src="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedimmatureberries-e1537487605123-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedimmatureberries-e1537487605123.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1 225w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedimmatureberries-e1537487605123.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&ssl=1 768w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedimmatureberries-e1537487605123.jpg?resize=600%2C800&ssl=1 600w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedimmatureberries-e1537487605123.jpg?w=1000&ssl=1 1000w, https://i2.wp.com/pegplant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pokeweedimmatureberries-e1537487605123.jpg?w=1500&ssl=1 1500w" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); height: auto; margin: 2px 0px 0px; max-width: 98.5%; width: auto;" width="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-12488" style="border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">immature pokeweed berries</p></div><p style="background-color: #f8f3cc; border: 0px rgb(227, 60, 60); color: #4f460c; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pokeweed berries are attractive but it is important to know that all parts of the plant are poisonous. Some people even get rashes from touching the plant. If you have children or see pokeweed in areas where children frequent such as school playgrounds, you should remove the plants. Pull the thick stems after a rain when the soil is loose and when the plants are young. If they mature, they develop taproots, making them difficult to remove completely. 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<u>Herbal Vinegar</u></h4>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Wash one cup of herbs, allow to air dry. Pack leaves (can use stems too) in quart glass jar with wooden spoon. Fill with 3 to 3 ½ cups vinegar to one inch from top. The vinegar should be 5% acidity and best types of vinegar are white or red wine vinegar, rice wine vinegar, or apple cider vinegar. Push down with spoon and bruise leaves. If a metal lid, first cover with plastic wrap, if plastic lid, just close. Store in dark place for 4 to 6 week, shaking every few days. Taste to see if too strong, add more vinegar, or too weak, add more herb. When done, strain leaves out and pour liquid into clean bottles and add a sprig of fresh herb for decoration. Label.</span></div>
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Wash herbs, let dry. Take a stick of unsalted butter out of the fridge, put in bowl, and let come to room temperature so is soft. Add 2 to 3 tablespoons of the chopped herb, do this to taste. Depending on the leaf, may have to cut into small pieces. Can put in a container to keep in fridge for 2 weeks or roll into saran wrap like a log and freeze for up to 6 months.</div>
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Put one cup of water and one cup of sugar in a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer. When sugar dissolves, turn off heat, add large handful of herb leaves. Bruise with wooden spoon by smashing against side of pot. Cover and let sit for 30 minutes. When cool, strain leaves out and pour syrup in glass jar and store in fridge for up to 2 weeks.</div>
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mint has a variety of uses in the kitchen including sweet syrups</div>
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Pulverize in the blender 2 cups washed fresh basil, 4 cloves of garlic, (chopped), and ½ cup olive oil until pasty. Add 3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, blend again. Can freeze in plastic ice cube trays or flat in plastic bags.</div>
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Depending on the amount of meat can change the quantities but the ratio is 1/4 cup of olive oil, 1 tablespoon of vinegar like a wine vinegar, ¼ cup water, a dash of salt (like soy sauce), a dash of sugar (honey or brown sugar) and about a cup of fresh herb leaves (tear leaves apart if large). Have meat sit in this mixture for at least 30 minutes. Drain and cook meat.</div>
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Can use this as a frozen base for pesto and then add the fresh garlic and Parmesan cheese to the thawed paste or a frozen base for stew or soup. Clean herbs but make sure are completely dry as water and oil do not mix. Blend in the food processor 4 cups of herb leaves to ¼ to 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil to make a paste. Freeze in bags or plastic ice cube trays. There should be some texture to herb so is a paste and not pureed like liquid. Good with savory herbs such as basil, parsley, and cilantro. If using a “sweet” herb like mints, may want to try sunflower seed oil instead.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><u>This week, Celebrate National Pollinator Week</u><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">It is amazing that something as small as a bee is vitally important to our food supply. As pollinators, bees transfer pollen thus ensuring that plants and crops develop fruit and seeds for us to consume. But bees are not the only keystone species that we depend on, we also need other pollinators such as butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, and birds, including hummingbirds.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span id="more-14067" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="color: #333333;">About 80 percent of the world’s flowering plants depend on pollinators (the others are wind pollinated). According to Cornell University, pollinators are responsible for every third bite of food we eat. Unfortunately, pollinator populations have declined due to pesticides, habitat loss, and disease. Gardeners who are aware of this problem have deliberately planted flowering perennials and annuals to provide pollen (protein) and nectar (carbs). Because of their dramatic 90 percent decline in population over the past 20 years, monarch butterflies have received quite a lot of support. Many gardeners are planting milkweed – the one and only plant for monarchs — or trying to produce more butterflies with home kits. Bees too have received national attention. Nurseries promote bee friendly flowers and gardeners have planted bee magnets such as Joe-pye weed (</span><em style="border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eupatorium</em><span style="color: #333333;">), goldenrod (</span><em style="border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Solidago</em><span style="color: #333333;">), and gayfeather (</span><em style="border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Liatris</em></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">).</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">These efforts have helped the pollinators and certainly gardeners have come to appreciate the importance of pollinators. However, an overlooked source of food and protection for pollinators are trees. Trees provide more flowers, plenty of foliage for larva (caterpillars), and a large infrastructure to hold hives and nests. Because of the number of flowers a canopy provides, trees can provide more pollen and nectar compared to annuals and perennials. Plus, as homeowners move from house to house, the herbaceous landscape may change but usually the trees and all of their tiny inhabitants remain.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Plant Small Native Trees for Homes </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Trees are a permanent fixture,” said Steve Nagy, an International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Board-Certified Master Arborist and Assistant District Manager at the northern Virginia office of the</span></span> <a href="https://www.davey.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Davey Tree Expert Company</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">. Based in Ohio, the company was founded in 1880 and has offices across North America. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">For attracting pollinators in the Washington DC metro area, Steve recommends native trees that thrive in our particular climate (cold winters and hot, humid summers). “We recommend native trees because the chances of them growing well is higher that non-natives,” he explained. For typical suburban lots where space is a premium, Steve recommends swamp white oak </span>(<em style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quercis bicolor</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">), willow oak (</span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quercis phellos</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">), post oak (</span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quercis stellata</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">), cucumber magnolia (</span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Magnolia acuminata</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">), sweet bay magnolia (</span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Magnolia</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;"> </span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">virginiana</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">), black gum (</span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nyssa sylvatica</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">), little leaf linden (</span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tilia cordata</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">), persimmon (</span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Diospyros virginiana</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">), and serviceberry (</span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Amelanchier</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">). “Sourwood (</span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oxydendrum arboreum)</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;"> is a great tree, too,” said Steve, “It is a typically overlooked native with good fall color.”</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />Plant Trees that Flower at Various Times</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">with summer-blooming flowers. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">While a tree can provide many flowers, usually it only flowers for a few weeks. Because different pollinators are active at various times of the year, Steve recommends planting trees with various bloom times. Instead of planting the well-known spring bloomers such as flowering cherry trees, flowering plums, star magnolias, saucer magnolias, and redbuds, homeowners can plant summer blooming trees such as little leaf linden, persimmon, cucumber magnolia, southern magnolia (</span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Magnolia</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">grandiflora</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">), and crape myrtle (</span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lagerstroemia</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">). </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">Another reason to plant trees is that certain pollinators require specific tree species or genera. Similar to the monarch butterfly’s relationship with milkweed, the spicebush swallowtail caterpillar only feeds on spicebush (Lindera benzoin) and sassafras (Sassafras albidum). The zebra swallowtail caterpillar only feeds on young paw paw leaves (Asimina spp.) and the pink-striped oak worm moth gets its name from its preference for oaks (Quercus spp.).</span></h4>
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<em>Baptisia</em>, also called false indigo, is a shrub-like plant that does well in our hot and humid summers. Recent breeding efforts have expanded the range of flower colors creating a new look for an old favorite. I myself have been taken by two top performers according to Mt. Cuba Center’s 15-page report, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mtcubacenter.org/trials/baptisia/&source=gmail&ust=1588001827446000&usg=AFQjCNHvQW0cNd_RdljOi8fz-omO_bImgg" href="https://mtcubacenter.org/trials/baptisia/" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank"><em>Baptisia for the Mid-Atlantic Region</em></a>. The Mt. Cuba Center’s Trial Garden, managed by George Coombs, research horticulturist, evaluates native plants and their related cultivars. From 2012 to 2015, staff evaluated 46 selections of <em>Baptisia</em> including representatives from 11 different species to determine which performs best in the mid-Atlantic region. Over 60 percent of the plants tested receive 4 or 5 stars. Among those, 10 superior cultivars outperformed the rest. Fortunately for me my two <em>Baptisia</em> cultivars are included in the ten.</div>
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I have two Lemon Meringue and two Dutch Chocolate plants. I purchase them several years ago as small plants. Now in April, they are tall and just about to bloom. In the summer, they will be loaded with yellow or chocolate brown flowers. Although they look like shrubs, these plants are herbaceous perennials. I cut them back in the winter and in March, new growth emerges from the base. By summer, the plants grow to their mature height of about 3 feet high and wide, each year. The plants have pea-like flowers on tall spikes, similar to lupines, which emerge in April and are in full flower in May. In the fall, the dark brown pods can be left on the plant or used for dried flower arrangements. <em>Baptisia</em> plants are deer resistant, heat and humidity tolerant, and drought tolerant once established.</div>
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<a href="http://caladiumbulbs.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Amaryllis and Caladium Bulb Company</a>, Florida, has catalog and can order online. Sells amaryllis, caladiums, and spring and summer bulbs.</div>
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<a href="http://brentandbeckysbulbs.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brent and Becky’s Bulbs</a>, Virginia, has a catalog, can order online, can visit display garden and shop in Gloucester, VA.</div>
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<a href="http://dutchgrown.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dutch Grown</a>, Pennsylvania, order bulbs online.</div>
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<a href="http://easytogrowbulbs.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Easy to Grow Bulbs</a>, California, can order online, no catalog. Sells bulbs, succulents, and houseplants.</div>
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<a href="http://johnscheepers.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John Scheepers Beauty from Bulbs</a>, Connecticut, can order online and has catalog. Also has sister company Van Engelen for wholesale bulb orders and a sister company, Kitchen Garden Seeds, for vegetable, herb, flower seeds</div>
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<a href="http://longfield-gardens.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Longfield Gardens</a>, New Jersey, can order online but no catalog, sells bulbs and perennials</div>
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<a href="http://mzbulb.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">McClure and Zimmerman</a>, Wisconsin, has a digital catalog and can order online, sells bulbs</div>
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<a href="http://odysseybulbs.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Odyssey Bulbs</a>, Massachusetts, online, no catalog, sells unusual bulbs and perennials</div>
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<a href="http://tulips.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RoozenGaarde and Washington Bulb Company</a>, Washington, has a mailorder and internet division called Tulips.com. There is a retail gift shop in WA. Also ships flowers and promotes bulbs as wedding favors.</div>
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<a href="http://telosrarebulbs.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Telos Rare Bulbs</a>, California, sells bulbs from South Africa, South America, and western U.S., online, no catalog</div>
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Gardening Online: A Bounty of Connections for You!</h1>
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Although we may be home during the day, the absence of a commute, errands, and basically a social life, grants us more time than before. Plant lovers and gardeners can take advantage of this to learn about gardening online in the Washington DC metro area. Below is a sample of resources for webinars, videos, and online courses. No doubt, there are more; e-mail me if you know of virtual methods for learning about gardening at pegplant at gmail dot com. I may even post an addendum if we find ourselves social distancing for an extended period. This list is in no order; some are free videos while others require registration and payment. </div>
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National Capital Area Garden Clubs, Inc now has a Youtube Channel and President Cherie says more content will be added from the many archived videos she and others have compiled, over the last few years.<br />
Upcoming will be live-streamed presentations. For example, The STATE meeting that was to be held at Glenstone on April 7th will be Live-Streamed with Paul Tukey, their Sustainability Director, directly on the Glenstone Facebook page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/glenstonemuseum/">https://www.facebook.com/glenstonemuseum/</a><br />
The details will become available through the club Presidents.<br />
NCAGC's Youtube channel (thank you in advance for subscribing):<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCenSGW5BqMhwms9RCzR8P4w?">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCenSGW5BqMhwms9RCzR8P4w?</a><br />
(this URL will get shorter once there are 100 views!) ,<br />
Also National Garden Clubs Facebook page will host live-stream material too: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NCAGC/" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">https://www.facebook.com/NCAGC/</a> And yes, please like this page too!<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">YouTube, </span><a href="https://goodgardeningvideos.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Good Gardening Videos</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> has more than 1,000 gardening videos curated for accuracy and quality. This is a non-profit, ad-free educational campaign to find and promote evidence-based gardening videos and to help more accurate ones be made.</span></div>
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Laura LeBoutillier is the Youtube and Facebook: “Garden Answer.”<br />
Laura has produced many videos on gardening as well as do-it-yourself projects, which are free to watch. She and her husband started filming gardening videos as a hobby and have become so successful they manage <a href="https://www.gardenanswer.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Garden Answer</a> as a full time business. She has partnered with companies such as Proven Winners, Espoma, Gardener’s Supply Company, and Bonide so you will often see her promote products on her shows. Although she lives to the west in zone 5 most of her videos are applicable to this area.</div>
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Another familiar face on Facebook is Philadelphian Doug Oster who has created the <a href="https://gardens.everybodyshops.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Everybody Gardens</a> website and has produced the “In the Garden” video series on YouTube. He is a prolific writer, filmmaker, and author and he also has a radio show. Doug frequently appears on Pittsburgh Today Live Television show as their local garden expert.</div>
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For those who know <a href="https://pallensmith.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">P. Allen Smith</a> , has produced so many videos that if you enter his name on YouTube you will see short vlogs, longer videos, and even full-length television shows. Plus, he produces a digital magazine called Naturally Magazine (I view mine on Issuu). When this is over I would love to visit Moss Mountain Farm.</div>
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Kerry Ann Mendez of <a href="https://pyours.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Perennially Yours</a> in Maine is a well-known garden speaker, author, and garden designer. She has a beautiful website, listing many webinars. On YouTube there is a video of her giving a presentation to an audience called “Growing Honkin’ Hydrangeas in the Northeast.”</div>
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Lisa Mason Ziegler, owner of the <a href="https://www.thegardenersworkshop.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Gardener’s Workshop</a> in Newport News, VA, manages a very successful cut flower farm. She has written several books, gives presentations (including in the Northern Virginia area), and has produced online courses for seed starting, cut flowers, cool flowers, and flower farming. She is queen of cool flowers and for her books she has produced videos where she discusses each chapter and answers questions. You will often see her on Facebook Live.</div>
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Charlie Nardozzi is a well-known garden expert, he has published books, gives presentations, provides garden tours, and produces a library of on demand webinars at his website <a href="https://gardeningwithcharlie.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gardening with Charlie Nardozzi</a>. Topics include small space edible gardening, cottage gardening, native and invasive plants, organic pest control, and pollinator gardening. Charlie also publishes a free, informative newsletter. He lives in Vermont and I would love to hear him speak if he ever travels to this area.</div>
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The <a href="https://www.ecolandscaping.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ecological Landscape Alliance</a> is a New Hampshire membership-based organization with a mission of promoting sustainable approaches to landscape design, construction, and management. They host events, some of which are near this area, and distribute a newsletter. Many of their webinars are suitable for home gardeners. For example, there will be a one-hour webinar on protecting pollinators for $10 for non-members or free for members, but some webinars are free.</div>
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<a href="https://www.mybluprint.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bluprint</a> which used to be Craftsy, has popular garden figures such as Ellen Ecker Ogden, Karen Chapman, David Culp, Debra Lee Baldwin, and Jodi Torpey. They provide online courses for which you must register and pay for on the Bluprint website but if you like their topic or their style you should check out their own websites.</div>
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<a href="https://pithandvigor.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pith and Vigor</a> Rochelle Greayer is a designer in Boston who has an online course called Garden Design Bootcamp and one called Planting Design Bootcamp. From her website, it looks like she may be producing additional ones. She has published a book and publishes a digital newspaper type of publication.</div>
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Karen Chapman is a garden speaker, author, and designer in the State of Washington. I have heard her speak in this area and she is an excellent speaker. She is a container guru with many online courses on creating beautiful containers. Karen has just published a book on deer resistant designs and has a webinar on this topic on her website <a href="https://lejardinetdesigns.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Le Jardinet</a>.<br />
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This list and connections should keep you engaged even if homebound for several months...and, we know that doesn't even account for tending to our own gardens no matter how large or small. The good news those hours deliver fresh air and (mostly) sunshine.<br />
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You are in our thoughts..stay well. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoYB-0fiVhQFL4t1ssaFRhyphenhyphenB3PCPi3fGpOAKyogr7NzaVng3i3x0kQekhCpP3uC4c717arI6sV7c7rTtGnhNK9EVSRAeSC-wiD2Rtp7oHolBJtxi_q2_UjuYWzLkoHychSnpGidiC_PxcZ/s1600/chocolatemint.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="300" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoYB-0fiVhQFL4t1ssaFRhyphenhyphenB3PCPi3fGpOAKyogr7NzaVng3i3x0kQekhCpP3uC4c717arI6sV7c7rTtGnhNK9EVSRAeSC-wiD2Rtp7oHolBJtxi_q2_UjuYWzLkoHychSnpGidiC_PxcZ/s320/chocolatemint.jpg" width="320" /></a><span data-offset-key="ba58h-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">February 19th is National Chocolate Mint Day and for gardeners that translates into the chocolate mint herb (Mentha x piperita forma citrata ‘Chocolate’). Mints are herbaceous perennials. They are extremely hardy but must be grown in containers. All mints will take over your garden if you plant them in the ground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chocolate mint has textured leaves and dark brown to purple stems. The leaves are green but the new growth is darker, with veins that are brown to purple. The leaves really do taste like chocolate mint, which kids love. In my family, we make a syrup out of the leaves and pour it on fresh strawberries (see recipe below). We also put minced leaves in a store-bought brownie mix, chocolate cake, and chocolate chip cookie dough to add the mint flavor. The leaves are great for garnishing fruit salads, desserts, cakes, and cupcakes. They can be used fresh or dried for making tea, or adding to coffee or hot chocolate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a great plant to have in order to make gifts. The stems root very easily in water so you can either pot up the rooted stems or just give cuttings to friends. We have given away pots of chocolate mint with a recipe card attached. Because the cost is minimal, pots of chocolate mint make a great gift for your children’s teachers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mints can tolerate shade and prefer moist soil. They can be grown in dappled shade or morning sun and afternoon shade. If there is a dry period in the summer, make sure the container is receiving enough water. They grow to a few feet tall and flower in the summer. The small flowers are edible and can be used as a garnish. They also attract beneficial insects, bees, and butterflies. Deer leave the plant alone. Chocolate mint also can be used as the “spiller” in a container with summer flowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Syrup </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Put one cup of water and one cup of sugar in a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer. When the sugar dissolves, turn off the heat, and add a large handful of chocolate mint leaves. Bruise with a wooden spoon by smashing leaves against the side of the pot. Cover and let sit for 30 minutes. When cool, strain leaves out and pour syrup in glass jar. Store in fridge for up to 2 weeks.</span></div>
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It All Started With Seeds</h1>
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Saving various types of lima beans and their names and stories</div>
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I <span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit;">read a phrase that is so true: “It all starts with the seed. The seeds take care of us.” We rely on seeds, thus plants, to feed, clothe, and shelter us. But these seeds in turn rely on us. Our cultivated plants (not wild grown but grown in gardens and farms) depend on human care. If we do not preserve a species it will become extinct. If no one grows a plant and saves the seed, the plant and its genetic material will not exist anymore. </span></div>
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The Importance of Seeds</h4>
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Because seeds are fundamentally important to our survival, saving seeds, especially open pollinated, heirloom seeds, is vital. Plants make up 80 percent of our diet. On an agricultural level, saving seeds preserves genetic diversity. Breeders can tap into a large genetic pool for improved crops and pest/disease resistant crops. Saving seeds of various plants ensures crop diversity so that one pest/disease does not wipe out one crop. Saving seeds of plants that have adapted to a local area helps to become resilient to climate change.</div>
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On a home gardener level, saving seeds saves money. One can exchange seeds at seed swaps or pass down seeds to future generations. Over time, saving seed from plants that have done well in the garden saves plants that have adapted well to the region. This may help with climatic change. Saving seed also increases the diversity of plants grown. There is more of a choice, more of a variety to choose from for better flavor, time of harvest, or plant type. Saving seeds also saves the memories and stories from previous generations and the lineage of heirlooms.</div>
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However, each year, as seed are not saved, plants become extinct. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, an estimated 75 percent of global food diversity has become extinct in the past 100 years. Of just 20 plants used for global food production in 2014, only 9 accounted for more than 66 percent of all crop production. Only five cereal grains make up 60 percent of our calories. In the past century we have lost more than 90 percent of our seed diversity. Thousands of plant species are no longer available, and we continue to lose them every day. Yet biodiversity is essential to food and agriculture and provides us and plants with resilience.</div>
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Seed Saving Initiatives</h4>
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Grandpa Ott’s morning glory</div>
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Fortunately, there are seed saving <a href="https://foodtank.com/news/2017/07/seed-saving-initiatives/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">initiatives</a>across the world to save seeds for future generations. One American organization, <a href="https://www.seedsavers.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seed Savers Exchange</a>, has several programs that are extremely useful and helpful to home gardeners. Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) began in 1975 by Diane Ott Whealy and Kent Whealy. Diane’s grandfather gave them seeds of Grandpa Ott’s morning glory and German Pink tomato which were brought by Grandpa Ott’s parents from Bavaria when they immigrated to Iowa in the 1870’s. Diane knew that with her grandfather’s passing, unless the seed were grown and saved, they would be lost. She reached out to like-minded people interested in saving and sharing heirloom seeds and gradually formed a network.</div>
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Seed Savers Exchange</h4>
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German Pink tomato</div>
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Today, SSE is a non-profit organization in Decorah, Iowa, with more than 13,000 members. Its mission is to “conserve and promote America’s culturally diverse but endangered garden and food crop heritage for future generations by collecting, growing, and sharing heirloom seeds and plants.”</div>
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The SSE maintains a seed bank with 18,000 to 20,000 varieties at their headquarters in Iowa. They also send seed to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) seed vault at Fort Collins, Colorado, and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway.</div>
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“At SSE, we store seeds at zero degrees Fahrenheit and 20 percent humidity. Under these conditions, certain seed can last up to 100 years,” said Philip Kauth, Ph.D., Director of Preservation.</div>
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To give an idea of the number of varieties that can exist within one plant, Philip said that currently the SSE collection has 6,000 tomatoes. There are 3,000 types on the market that are commercially available. “We have 1,100 varieties of corn but the USDA has 20,000 varieties of corn. We also have 6,000 varieties of beans.” What makes SSE unique is that they also maintain the seed’s history. “We put a lot of emphasis on stories. We preserve the varieties and their histories as well as evaluation data on their performance as a plant.”</div>
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The Seed Exchange</h4>
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Anyone, including home gardeners, may access some of these varieties through the <a href="https://exchange.seedsavers.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seed Exchange</a>. The Seed Exchange is a free online database of seeds, basically a seed swap. Anyone can offer or obtain open pollinated seeds to grow in their garden. It does not cost money to view this database; however, in order to list or request seed a free account must be established. If reading hard copy is preferable, there is an annual catalog called the Yearbook that can be ordered for a fee. The Seed Exchange has more than 11,000 varieties of homegrown, open pollinated vegetable, flower, and herb seed. Once people obtain and grow these, they can save and re-sow the seed (hence have them for a long time) or even save and share the seed with friends and family. The Seed Exchange also includes potato tubers, garlic bulbs, apple tree cuttings, and other non-seed material.</div>
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Field crew harvesting beans</div>
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Today, a quick look at the Seed Exchange reveals 9,563 varieties of tomatoes. Some entries have short descriptions, some long, and some have photos. For example, the description for the Silvery Fir Tree tomato is a “compact (18 – 24 inches high) with unusual, delicate, lacy leaves. In Russian, it is called ‘Serebristaya El’ .. it is an old Russian variety that was introduced to American seed savers in the early 1990s by Marina Danilenko, pioneering private seed seller from Moscow during the Perestroika-era.”</div>
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There are 38 entries for spinach including a broad leaved prickly seed spinach “described by Albertus Magnus, a Catholic saint from Germany, in 1260, has been commercially available in the US since at least 1806, and was planted by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello in 1809 and 1812.”</div>
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SSE also sells seed, people can order online and from a free <a href="https://www.seedsavers.org/catalog" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">catalog</a>. SSE makes about 600 varieties available commercially to the public when inventory of seed is high enough to meed the demand. The revenue from the seed sales, as well as donations and memberships, maintain the organization’s seed collection and promote and encourage the tradition of saving and sharing seed.</div>
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Trial beds at Heritage Farm</div>
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Seed Savers Exchange Projects</h4>
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Other interesting SSE projects are <a href="http://blog.seedsavers.org/blog/seed-rematriation" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seed Rematriation</a> (identifying and growing plants grown by indigenous communities in order to obtain and save the seeds); <a href="https://www.seedlinked.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SeedLinked</a>, a seed data platform connecting people with information on varieties from other gardeners/farmers; and the <a href="https://www.communityseednetwork.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Community Seed Network</a>, which engages hundreds of people across the United States and Canada to connect, share, and learn about seeds. The SSE also provides free seed to schools, community groups, and people in need via the Herman’s Garden and Disaster Relief Seed <a href="https://www.seedsavers.org/seed-donation-program" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Donation programs</a>.</div>
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Heritage Farm</h4>
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The SSE is a destination point — hundreds of gardeners, horticulturists, and seed savers visit the headquarters, known as Heritage Farm, each year. The public is encouraged to visit the Lillian Goldman Visitors Center and Gift and Garden store, walk through display gardens, including an apple orchard with 900 varieties of apple trees, and attend events such as a seed swap, an heirloom plant sale, a seed school, a tomato tasting, and a harvest festival. And if that isn’t enough, there is always the Robert Becker Memorial Library with 6,000 volumes covering agriculture, horticulture, and biodiversity. And to think it all started with seeds of a morning glory and a tomato.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985250782025304985.post-28036599821535187562019-12-24T07:23:00.001-08:002019-12-24T08:28:55.507-08:00A Gardener's Christmas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thank you Peg Riccio for this poem..remember her website: pegplant.com<br />
Best New Year wishes from President Cherie Lejeune<br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: , , sans-serif;">´</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Twas the night before Christmas,<br />And all through the yard<br />The branches were bare<br />And the ground frozen hard;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The roses were dormant<br />And mulched all around<br />To protect them from damage<br />If frost heaves the ground;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The perennials were nestled<br />All snug in their beds,<br />While visions of fertilizer<br />Danced in their heads;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The newly planted shrubs <br />Had been soaked by a hose<br />To settle their roots<br />For a long winter’s doze;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And out on the lawn<br />The new fallen snow<br />Protected the roots<br />Of the grasses below;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When, what to my wondering<br />Eyes should appear,<br />But a Prius full of gifts<br />Of gardening gear;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">St. Nick was the driver<br />A jolly old elf,<br />And he winked as he said,<br />“I’m a gardener myself.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’ve brought new seeds<br />And light systems, too,<br />Give them a try<br />And see how they do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To eliminate weeding,<br />I brought bags of mulch<br />To attract the pollinators,<br />I have flowers for best results.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To add to your joy,<br />I’ve plenty of herbs<br />And ornamental grasses<br />For your hell strip curb.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For seed planting days,<br />I’ve a trowel and dibble.<br />And a roll of wire mesh,<br />If the rabbits should nibble.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have the latest books<br />Plus some gadgets you’ll love;<br />Plant stakes and frames,<br />And waterproof gloves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are sharp shears<br />And a new compost pit<br />And, for pH detecting,<br />A soil testing kit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With these colorful flagstones,<br />Lay a new garden path.<br />For the view from your window,<br />A bird feeder and bath.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And last but not least,<br />Some well-rotted manure.<br />A green garden year-round,<br />These gifts will ensure.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then, jolly St. Nick<br />Having emptied his load,<br />Started his Prius<br />And took on the road.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I heard him exclaim<br />Through the motor’s quiet hum,<br />“Merry Christmas to all,<br />And to all a green thumb!”</span></div>
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Care of Chrysanthemums: Post-Bloom and Post-Frost</span></h1>
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chrysanthemums are perennial plants</div>
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Its chrysanthemum season, time to enjoy the autumn colors of yellow, orange, and red flowers. But what to do after Jack Frost visits?</div>
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Todd Brethauer, president of the <a href="https://odcsmums.club/about/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Old Dominion Chrysanthemum Society</a>, says to cut back the mums in the garden to 4 inches and cover with 4 inches of mulch, such as pine boughs or straw. It is okay if the plant is in darkness, it will be dormant during the winter months. Although mums are perennials, they are subject to the soil heaving during warm winter days which can damage or kill the roots. Keeping the plants covered insulates and protects them from the fluctuations in soil temperature. When spring arrives, remove the mulch.</div>
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If you have purchased a potted mum this fall and it is still in the container, cut back the stems to 4 inches and cover the entire plant and pot with mulch. Todd suggests keeping the plant in the container and not taking the plant out and planting in the garden. There is not enough time for the mum’s roots to become established in the ground; therefore, the plant will not survive the winter. For extra insulation, Todd suggests putting the entire plant and container under a deck, covered with mulch, and even putting the pot on its side so excess rain or snow will run off. Otherwise, treat decorative potted mums as annuals. Either throw away after they bloom or take the plants out of the containers and put the plants in the compost pile when they are past their prime.</div>
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The best time to plant mums in your garden is in the spring after the last frost. This will give them all summer long to get established.</div>
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chrysanthemums forced for fall flowers don’t have time for root establishment in the garden bed</div>
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When my mother lived in Vienna, Virginia, she grew red geraniums in large containers by the front door. Every fall she would pull the plants out of the containers, knock off the excess soil, and place the plants on a shelf in the basement. There was one small window allowing very little light but these plants would come back to life the following summer. She did this because her mother, who lived in Wisconsin, also saved geraniums in the fall. However, her mother had a sunny foyer. Every fall, she would cut her plants back, repot them in smaller containers, and treat them as small indoor plants in the foyer. Both methods worked well. Geraniums can take quite a bit of dryness which is what makes them ideal for overwintering.</div>
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This year, I received a geranium from <a href="https://all-americaselections.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All-America Selections</a>. <a href="https://all-americaselections.org/product/geranium-calliope-medium-dark-red/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Calliope</a>is a 2017 AAS ornamental vegetative winner (not grown from seed) with red flowers. It has bloomed all summer in a large container, in full sun. I added <a href="http://www.osmocotegarden.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Osmocote</a> when I originally planted it in May but I have not needed to water it. The rain has been enough. Every time I see this pretty plant I think of my mother and grandmother and how gardening wisdom passes down from generation to generation. Before winter hits, I want to save my geranium too. Since I do not have a brightly lit room in my house, I will try my mother’s technique.</div>
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Calliope in October, ready to be overwintered</div>
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This month, before frost, I will lift the plant out of the container, shake the soil off and cut off or back diseased parts and the flowers. Then I will let it dry for a few days in the shade on the deck so that excess moisture will evaporate. I will then place the plant in a large paper grocery bag, upside down, and close with a binder clip. I will store the bag in the coolest place in the basement, which will be around 50 degrees.</div>
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Periodically, I will check the plant to see if it is getting too dry or, conversely, moldy. If moldy, I would just cut and throw away those parts. If too dry, I would soak the roots in water for a few hours and then dry and put back in the bag. Of course, the foliage will die off eventually but that is okay. In the beginning of April, I will put the root structure in a small container with drainage holes. I am assuming the plant will look like a dead stump but I have no doubt it will come back to life. I will water and place the container in the living room where it is warmer and lighter than the basement. This will trigger the plant to leaf out again. After the average last frost date (Mother’s Day here), I will put the container on the deck. It will be in shade at first which actually will be more light than the living room. Gradually, I will move the container to a sunny location and probably in late May, I will plant it back into its large container with another dose of Osmocote.</div>
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If you have geraniums, now is the time to think about saving them so you can enjoy them again next summer. This method should enable you to enjoy your geraniums for many years to come.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From Cherie Lejeune, President of NCAGC October 6, 2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">We are fortunate to have a new Blog Post Editor/Contributor...Peggy Riccio. Her website, <a href="http://pegplant.com/">Pegplant.com</a> is growing fans not just locally but, attracting readers from across the globe. She is a member of Camelot Garden Club (DIII), the new President of the Potomac Chapter of the Herb Society and, a member of GardenComm, an international association of garden writers. She is a Mother of twins, both freshman in college, and, still works full time. Oh, and she gives many weekend workshops! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She will definitely keep our local antenna in good working order for green, local activities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So with her permission, we are reprinting her latest post on Lily Family bulbs. For those of us with too many deer in our yards, this is welcome information. Thank you Peggy! </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ______________________________________________________________________</span></div>
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Of the fall-planted, spring-blooming bulbs, there are several in the lily family (Liliaceae) that are deer resistant. These are worth trying in your garden. If you have a severe deer issue, you may want to try <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">deer-proof</em> bulbs. As mentioned in my <a href="https://pegplant.com/2019/10/01/deer-resistant-spring-blooming-bulbs-to-plant/">deer-proof article</a>, I talked with Brent Heath of <a href="https://www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/">Brent and Becky’s Bulbs</a> in Gloucester, VA, who explained the difference between deer proof and deer resistant.</div>
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“Critter-proof bulbs are poisonous to animals such as deer, rabbits, squirrels, and voles,” Brent said. “Critter-resistant bulbs have some quality that is unpleasant to the critter but if the critter is hungry enough it will eat the plant.” Because there are three types of deer-proof bulbs in the amaryllis family–daffodils, snowflakes, and snowdrops–you may want to expand your palette of colors with deer-resistant bulbs in the lily family. Try planting these in areas where you know deer do not frequent or cannot gain access. Brent also recommended using <a href="http://www.plantskydd.com/">Plantskydd </a>repellent for these bulbs. “Plantskydd is most effective,” he said. “You dip the bulb in the liquid, let it dry, and then plant in the ground. It prevents the critters from smelling the sweet smell of the bulbs so they tend to leave the bulbs alone.” Here are six deer-resistant bulbs in the lily family to plant now for a spring show.</div>
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Alliums</h4>
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Alliums, also called ornamental onions, are grown for beautiful flowers, not for edible onions. “Allium bulbs have a distasteful, strong onion smell that critters find offensive,” said Brent. Usually the flowers are globe shaped and can be quite large. They bloom in late spring and early summer, preferring full sun and well-drained soil. Many of these flower heads work well as cut flowers and as dried flowers. There are globes, large and small; the drumstick shape (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Allium sphaerocephalon</em>); the firecracker shape (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A.</em> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">schubertii</em>); and the large chive shape (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A. unifolium</em>), to name a few. The size of the bulb varies so planting depth varies but generally bulbs are planted 2 to 3 times their width.</div>
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The grape hyacinth (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Muscari armeniacum</em>) is a small bulb but makes a big impact if planted in masses. Most people think of blue or purple grape looking flowers but there is a wide variety of colors. Some flowers are two-toned — blue and white or yellow and purple or white and purple. Some have all white flowers, or purple, or pink. Some flower structures have hairy, fuzzy flowers, instead of the common, grape-like clusters. Grape hyacinth bulbs naturalize well, can be grown in full or partial sun or dapple shade, and are great for planting under deciduous trees. Because of their small size, they do well in containers for forcing for an early indoor bloom. They bloom in March and April.</div>
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Hyacinths</h4>
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“Hyacinth bulbs have scales that are a skin irritant so wear gloves when handling them,” recommended Brent. “This also is an irritant to critters.” Hyacinths (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hyacinthus orientalis</em>) are less than a foot tall and flower colors come in ranges of pinks, yellow, blues, and whites. The actual flower shape does not vary much with cultivars. The bulbs last for a long time in the garden and over the years, the florets become looser, with more space between them instead of a tight cluster. Hyacinths prefer well-drained soil and full sun. They are very fragrant which is not as noticeable outside but can overpower a room if cut for a vase inside. Because of their small size, they do well in containers for forcing for an early indoor bloom. They bloom in March and April.</div>
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“Spanish bluebells (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hyacinthoides hispanica</em>) are highly critter resistant,” said Brent. These have about the same height and color palette as hyacinths but the florets are tubular bells. They can tolerate shade, are often found in woodland areas, but also can be grown in sun. They naturalize well and can be used as a cut flower. They do not have such an overpowering scent like hyacinths.</div>
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Star Flowers</h4>
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Star flowers (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ipheion uniflorum</em>) have a nice fragrance but are too small for cutting and the foliage reeks of garlic. “When crushed, the star flower leaves smell like garlic so the plant is critter resistant,” said Brent. The flowers have six petals in pale blue, lavender, pink, or white, resembling a star. The plant is about 6 inches tall with thin, grass like foliage so it is best to grown them in a group or drift. As long as the soil is well drained, they have a wide range of soil tolerance and can be grown in full sun to part shade. They bloom in April and naturalize well.</div>
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Glory of the snow (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chionodoxa forbesii</em>) also has star-shaped flowers but they are more open and each flower is lavender with a white center. Again, a small, 6-inch plant so they are not used for cutting. They work well in a group or drift and naturalize easily. Glory of the snow blooms in March, sometimes with snow on the ground, and in April. They need well-drained soil and full sun to part shade.</div>
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Glory of the snow in a drift</div>
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<i>NCAGC: We have met the gardeners and they are us</i><br />
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<i>NCAGC = Flower Power</i><br />
<i>Gardeners Love Growing Things</i><br />
<i>National Gardeners Grow Across the Nation</i><br />
<i>Metro Gardeners Grow Around NCA</i><br />
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<i>NCAGC - More Than Just A Flower Bed</i><br />
<i>Yes! We Are A State! NCAGC</i><br />
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<i><b>C </b>onnections</i><br />
<i><b>A</b> lways</i><br />
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<i><b>C </b>ommitment</i><br />
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<i>Friendships Begin In A Garden Club</i><br />
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<i>NCAGC: Our Capitol’s Garden Club</i><br />
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Buzzing on a rose</div>
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Oblivious to the sun</div>
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Creating a yum</div>
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Sunset on water</div>
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As solar slips to slumber</div>
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Night closes the day</div>
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Bee round and fury</div>
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Softly kissing a flower</div>
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Gathering pollen</div>
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Dark eyes, bright at birth</div>
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Precious little girl of mine</div>
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Black eyed Susan, light</div>
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Glowing petals rise</div>
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Uplifting natures buffet</div>
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Dining in midflight</div>
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See the colors bright</div>
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Bees and insects all alight</div>
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Then they all take flight</div>
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Dancing in the wind</div>
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Dressed to sparkle in sunlight</div>
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Color for a princess</div>
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Each day a new bloom</div>
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Together catches your eyes</div>
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And more tomorrow</div>
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Shimmering koi flash</div>
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Golden beneath the water</div>
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God’s moving flowers</div>
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Pink trees give blossoms</div>
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To Kenwood neighbors and friends</div>
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Kissing their petals</div>
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Black centered Susan</div>
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Arms stretched out to catch the sun</div>
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Happiness in Fall</div>
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Perching on flower</div>
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Extracts the golden nectar</div>
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Petals spread like arms</div>
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Daffodils awake</div>
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The sun arising on high</div>
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Heralds a new day</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985250782025304985.post-89718421128726634792019-04-14T19:48:00.000-07:002019-04-19T12:59:09.523-07:00Crazy About Daffodils - A post by Thea McGinnisAcross America, the daffodil season has begun or soon will! Here in the National Capital area, it's both cherry blossom and daffodil time, and this spring has been rather spectacular for both species.<br />
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Last weekend, fellow NGC flower show judges Connie Richards, Anita Brown and I attended Course I of the Amercan Daffodil Society's Daffodil Judge School. Exciting, too, was that the course was held at Brent and Becky's Bulb Farm in Gloucester, Virginia. I highly recommend you visit their farm if you are down that way. What a beautiful place! What a fascinating learning experience! For more information on Brent and Becky's, click <a href="https://www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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Following the course, we attended Gloucester's Daffodil Festival. We're talking parades, history, daffodils, food, music and attending their splendid Daffodil Show.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look! The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on the road museum! </td></tr>
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Back here in the National Capital Area this past weekend, I competed in the <b><i>Washington Daffodil Society and Mid-Atlantic Region Daffodil Show. </i></b>Show leaders told me they had record attendance. </div>
My triandrus, 'Thalia' even won a blue!<br />
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One thing I've learned in the last month is how many people are fascinated by growing and showing<br />
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For more information on joining the American Daffodil Society, click <a href="https://daffodilusa.org/" target="_blank">here</a> and for more information on Virginia Fine Arts Museum on the road museum bus, click <a href="https://www.vmfa.museum/exhibitions/vmfa-on-the-road/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985250782025304985.post-53275751290218206712019-03-20T19:26:00.001-07:002019-03-20T19:28:19.967-07:00Late Winter in the Nation's Capital - A post by Thea McGinnis<div style="text-align: center;">
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Every time I think spring is going to break through, it snows! School is cancelled. We sit home, mostly, reading our seed catalogues. I did get out last week, however, when my best friend from third grade came into town. <br />
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We toured two historical homes: Tudor Place( <a href="http://www.tudorplace.org/" target="_blank">here</a>) and ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_Place) in Georgetown, which is a lovely home with historic connections from George Washington on into the twentieth century. It also boasts a lovely garden. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hillwood's cutting garden in late winter - they just turned the soil</td></tr>
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The other home was Hillwood, a garden I've featured here (<a href="https://ncagardenclubs.blogspot.com/2015/10/staying-local-my-visit-to-hillwood.html" target="_blank">here</a>) before.<br />
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Even though it was brisk the day we visited, we couldn't resist a stroll into the gardens. They've turned the dirt on the cutting garden but there's not a lot of action yet...except in the Orchid green houses. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985250782025304985.post-22429011195341921332019-03-11T16:14:00.000-07:002019-03-11T16:14:04.141-07:00It's Flower Show Time In Our National Capital Area - Mark Your Calendars! A post by Thea McGinnis<br />
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<b>The purpose of an NGC Flower Show</b></div>
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<b>. To educate club members and viewing public</b></div>
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<b>. To stimulate interest in horticulture and floral design</b></div>
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<b>. To provide an outlet for creative expression</b></div>
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<b>. To communicate NGC, Inc. goals and objectives</b></div>
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Last month, National Capital Area Garden Clubs held Flower Show School Course I. Over 30 garden club members from National Capital area, Maryland, and Virginia attended, with 23 future<br />
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student judges taking the final exam. <br />
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I think that is a very healthy sign for our organization. The two expert <b>National Garden Club</b> Instructors were, frankly, fantastic. Sue Kirkman from Kentucky, and Jackie Davis from Pennsylvania, had an incredible amount of information to convey to our students. They each explained, in great detail, flower show procedures and aspects of judging horticulture and design. In my opinion, Flower Show School is the most challenging of the excellent courses of study and certification offered by NGC.<br />
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Another indicator of organizational health - and the fun part - is the clubs and districts that will host an NGC flower show this spring. Flower shows are free and open to the public. I'll post more site specifics as I get the information. Here's the list so far - mark your calendars!<br />
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April 5, 2019 - District II will host a Standard Flower Show at River Farm in Alexandria, VA.<br />
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May 8, 2019 - Tanta Cove Garden Club will host a Small Standard Flower Show, "Sing A Song of Spring," at the home of Shirley Nicolai in Fort Washington, MD. (1:30 - 3:00 p.m.)<br />
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May 16, 2019 - Rock Spring Garden Club will host a Horticulture Specialty Flower Show, "Poetry In the Garden," at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, Arlington, VA. (2:00 - 4:00 p.m.)<br />
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May 22, 2019 - Manassas Garden Club will host a Standard Flower Show.<br />
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June 6, 2019 - The Garden Party and Friendship Garden Clubs will host a Small Standard Flower Show.<br />
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Leave a comment if you want to know more details about NCAGC garden shows happening this spring. And if your club or district is hosting a show - let me know! T<br />
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A lot has been written about hellebores. These wonderful plants bloom at the end of the winter just when you are beginning to wonder if spring will ever come. If you are lucky enough to have some in your garden, <b><i>now is the time to prune them</i></b>. Their leaves are indeed evergreen, but by February many are looking a bit frayed and could do with some rejuvenation. The way to prune most hellebores is to cut off their leaves – yes, all the leaves – just as the buds are emerging. This will not harm the plant and the buds will be followed quickly by new leaves. The advantages of this are that the flowers are easily visible and not hidden by ugly old foliage, and the new foliage will look lovely and fresh. <br />
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If you have Corsican hellebores (<i>Hellebore argutifolius</i>) this advice does not apply. Corsican hellebores bloom a little earlier than lenten roses on top of two to three foot stems. Prune each flowering stem down to the ground after the bloom has faded, or when the weather permits.</div>
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In recent years dozens of new hellebore introductions have come to market. Traditional colors are more intense and a pallet of new colors has been added, especially purples, yellows, vibrant reds, and even greens. Flower forms now include doubles, as well as cut and picotee edges. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">This weekend we start a new Flower Show School Course I, with more than 30 new students! Volunteers from NCAGC and NCAGC Judges Council have been extra busy getting our classrooms, displays, horticulture and designs </span><span style="text-align: center;">ready for our two expert National Garden Clubs, Inc. Instructors. </span><br />
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I'll be there and I'll post pictures next week - TheaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985250782025304985.post-68063739143570486132019-01-14T13:05:00.000-08:002019-01-14T13:05:04.443-08:00Choosing Evergreens for Outdoors and Indoors - a guest post by Christine Wegman<br />
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Choosing evergreen trees and shrubs for your garden have the added benefit of making beautiful winter arrangements for the holidays and beyond. <br />
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By this time of the year we all have a pretty good idea of what landscape designers refer to as the “bones” of our gardens: those plants that act as structural elements by their shape, size and color. Structural plants look much the same throughout the garden year. Often focal points that draw the eye to perennial and annual color, they remain handsome during the winter. Mostly evergreen shrubs, some are deciduous trees and shrubs that remain an attractive presence through the winter because of their beautiful form or the color of their bark. They are the elements that give a garden winter beauty. <br />
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Now is a good time to take a look at your garden with an idea to improving its structure. Annuals have gone to seed and perennials have died back. It is easy to see where planting a small tree or evergreen shrub would improve the overall look of the garden, both in summer and winter. This could be a tall, narrow conifer for the back of a border, a small crape myrtle with attractive winter bark, or even some low-growing juniper for the front of a border. Making room amongst the flowers for a few conifers or small broadleaf evergreens can make a garden beautiful all year. Visiting a few conifer nursery websites – Iseli is a good example – will give you lots ideas for how this can be done. There is a conifer or small evergreen for just about any place in a garden, even heavy shade. This winter, make a note of where some evergreen plants are really needed and then search the web to find what might work in your situation. As you plan for more winter structure, keep in mind those plants that are good for winter arrangements. If you plant strategically, you can have a bit of fresh greenery in the house through much of the winter. And, of course, you can bring a branch in to one of our meetings for horticulture credit. <br />
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Conifers are the quintessential greens for holiday decoration, and almost any conifer you plant in the garden will look beautiful indoors. Some conifers last better indoors than others. Juniper, arborvitae, cryptomeria (false cypress), cedar and cypress are all long-lasting for holiday arrangements and will grow in our area. Pine is another one that is beautiful in holiday arrangements, but I have had better luck with short needle pines than long needle types indoors. Color, as well as texture, is an important factor, and there are many new small conifer introductions with colorful yellow or blue foliage that will make any arrangement pop.<br />
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Broadleaf evergreens are another staple of holiday decoration. Magnolia is a southern favorite because it looks beautiful and is lasts well. The leaves of the ubiquitous skip laurel are perfect for indoor greenery. Boxwood is unparalleled for arrangements and will last throughout the holidays. There are a number of variegated varieties that are easy to grow and make a beautiful eye-catching addition for any indoor arrangement. Aucuba is a plant that many of us grow; it too lasts well indoors, and if kept in water, will often take root. Nandina gives a light airy effect to arrangements, and ivy – variegated or not – does well in wreaths or arrangements. Holly is not as long-lasting as some of the other broadleaf evergreens, but the berries (on female plants) are the best source of red, and are pretty on their own with the leaves clipped off. <br />
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Bare twigs and branches give any arrangement added structure and interest. If you plant red or yellow twig dogwoods, now is a good time to begin pruning them. They will need to be pruned back in the spring, and if you have a mature plant, you won’t miss a few stems. Harry Walker’s Walking Stick is another plant that works well in arrangements. I have never had any success with willows, curly or otherwise, as we can’t offer them their preferred moist, sunny environment. <br />
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Harvesting evergreens for holiday arrangements is not difficult. Think of it as pruning the plants, rather than just cutting what you need for indoors. This will give you a lot of leftover foliage, but will retain the plant’s good looks for the rest of the season. The foliage will grow back in spring and the plant will be healthier for a good pruning. <br />
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I make two wreaths for the holidays and this strategy has worked pretty well for me over the years. I still need to get yellow cedar foliage from your local Garden Center, but for the rest, I can bring it in from the garden.<br />
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<b><i>Christine Wegman is a Rock Spring Garden Club member in National Capital Area Garden Clubs' District III. She is one of the go-to 'hort' experts in her club. Christine and her husband, Charlie Flicker, are avid and generous gardeners and have cultivated a delightful garden (for any season) in Arlington, Virginia. </i></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">May the peace and joy and beauty of this Holiday season grow like our gardens and bring us all a wonderful New Year. Health & Peace & Happiness to All in the National Capital Area family and all our NGC friends!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Lots of fun coming—rest, reflect, and recharge this Holiday season. In the meantime, take time to go back through this blog for some wonderful articles about gardening in the National Capital area.</span><br />
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arrangements for the holidays and beyond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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By this time of the year we all have a pretty good idea
of what landscape designers refer to as the “bones” of our gardens:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>those plants that act as structural elements by
their shape, size and color.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Structural
plants look much the same throughout the garden year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often focal points that draw the eye to
perennial and annual color, they remain handsome during the winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly evergreen shrubs, some are deciduous
trees and shrubs that remain an attractive presence through the winter because of
their beautiful form or the color of their bark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are the elements that give a garden
winter beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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is a good time to take a look at your garden with an idea to improving its
structure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Annuals have gone to seed and
perennials have died back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is easy to
see where planting a small tree or evergreen shrub would improve the overall
look of the garden, both in summer and winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This could be a tall, narrow conifer for the back of a border, a small crape
myrtle with attractive winter bark, or even some low-growing juniper for the front
of a border.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Making room amongst the
flowers for a few conifers or small broadleaf evergreens can make a garden
beautiful all year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visiting a few
conifer nursery websites – Iseli is a good example – will give you lots ideas
for how this can be done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a
conifer or small evergreen for just about any place in a garden, even heavy
shade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This winter, make a note of where
some evergreen plants are really needed and then search the web to find what
might work in your situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you
plan for more winter structure, keep in mind those plants that are good for
winter arrangements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you plant
strategically, you can have a bit of fresh greenery in the house through much
of the winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, of course, you can
bring a branch in to one of our meetings for horticulture credit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>Some conifers last better indoors than others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Juniper, arborvitae, cryptomeria (false
cypress), cedar and cypress are all long-lasting for holiday arrangements and
will grow in our area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pine is another
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with short needle pines than long needle types indoors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Color, as well as texture, is an important
factor, and there are many new small conifer introductions with colorful yellow
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Broadleaf evergreens</span></b>
are another staple of holiday decoration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The leaves of the ubiquitous skip
laurel are perfect for indoor greenery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Boxwood is unparalleled for arrangements and will last throughout the
holidays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are a number of variegated
varieties that are easy to grow and make a beautiful eye-catching addition for
any indoor arrangement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aucuba is a
plant that many of us grow; it too lasts well indoors, and if kept in water,
will often take root.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nandina gives a
light airy effect to arrangements, and ivy – variegated or not – does well in
wreaths or arrangements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holly is not as
long-lasting as some of the other broadleaf evergreens, but the berries (on
female plants) are the best source of red, and are pretty on their own with the
leaves clipped off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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and interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you plant red or yellow
twig dogwoods, now is a good time to begin pruning them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will need to be pruned back in the
spring, and if you have a mature plant, you won’t miss a few stems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harry Walker’s Walking Stick is another plant
that works well in arrangements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
never had any success with willows, curly or otherwise, as we can’t offer them
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for holiday arrangements is not difficult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Think of it as pruning the plants, rather than just cutting what you
need for indoors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will give you a
lot of leftover foliage, but will retain the plant’s good looks for the rest of
the season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The foliage will grow back
in spring and the plant will be healthier for a good pruning.<br />
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I make two wreaths for the holidays and this strategy has
worked pretty well for me over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I still need to get yellow cedar foliage from my local Garden
Center, but for the rest, I can bring it in from the garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b><i>Christine Wegman is a Rock Spring Garden Club member in National Capital Area Garden Clubs' District III. She is one of the go-to 'hort' experts in her club. Christine and her husband, Charlie Flicker, are avid and generous gardeners and have cultivated a delightful garden (for any season) in Arlington, Virginia. </i></b></span></div>
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If you’ve ever sat down with a gardener, dollars to donuts, they will tell you pretty quickly that they caught the garden bug from a family member – usually their grandparent(s) or parent, aunt or uncle. While my mother wasn’t into gardening, when we moved to the ‘country’ from New York City, I helped her plant bulbs, iris and marigolds, and she took great pride in her flowering shrubs. My friend Dorinda’s grandmother swept her right into the family tradition of gathering to decorate the church and make the bridal bouquets from their gardens for their family weddings.<br />
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The curious child at your knee, watching your hands move, asking questions, leaning in to see what you’re digging at, or what you’re looking at inside that flower bud – touching, smelling, eating - that’s how children begin their relationship with gardening.<br />
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When they aren’t right down in the dirt with you, they are also learning all about science and nature in school and in after school activities, too.<br />
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I’m very proud of the partnership my garden club has with our local school district. Our club sponsors two programs in two elementary schools.<br />
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One school has a junior gardener program for second grade boy and girls. Working with the classroom teacher, our club member volunteers from our Youth Activities Committee execute an age appropriate curriculum once a month. The topics each month include seeds, pollination, birds, animals, the seasons, crafts, and culminates with a floral design project in time for the children to bring home for Mother’s Day.<br />
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Our other monthly program involves a pre-school class with challenges at another elementary school, with the club members of our Horticulture Therapy Committee. Our monthly lessons include reading aloud about a particular topic related to plants, animals and nature. Creative lessons include making food for birds, planting seeds, the seasons, the sun and so much more. Committee members create lesson plans that include dressing up as animals and write books. The children love it.<br />
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As well received as our programs are, I cannot discount the joy our club members receive working on our Youth and Horticulture Therapy committees. They are probably the most popular committees our members sign up for each club year, and probably one third of our club’s active membership are involved in these programs.<br />
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There are many ways garden clubs can get a Youth Activities committee started. With the many competing after-school activities, junior garden clubs might not be practical in your community. Asking around, I got a good idea what other clubs are doing. Partnership with organizations like local schools, libraries, Pre-K schools, PTA’s, and Scouting is a good start. The Girl Scouts has a native plant merit badge that would be a great opportunity for club members to get involved in. Clubs can also offer an age appropriate floral design program. Partnering with a school or a library that has a children’s garden is also a great opportunity to apply our knowledge and experience in the garden. It also creates an opportunity to include a Youth section in your next flower show.<br />
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Most school districts have a volunteer liaison that will work with you to find a school with teachers happy to incorporate a junior gardener type program into their lesson plan. It might be more practical to do a monthly or quarterly gardening program, depending on the size of your club. A Youth initiative in your club can easily blend with your<b> Plant America</b> initiatives, too.<br />
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<b>National Garden Clubs, Inc. </b>offers lots of information and support to clubs that want to initiate or restart their footprint in the community with a Youth oriented program. I can’t think of a better way to foster and enrich children’s lives than being in a garden club that’s a go-to organization in your community. Here’s a link to NGC’s Youth activities page. As you develop your curriculum, keep in mind that NGC offers two children’s books that would be a great addition. Click -><a href="http://www.gardenclub.org/youth/youth-gardening.aspx">here</a><-<br />
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I also recommend my friend <b><i>Sharon Lovejoy’s Camp Granny</i></b> for project ideas and activities you can do with your junior gardeners – or your children, grandchildren, and even the children on your street. <br />
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My mass of zinnia flower bed, right outside my front gate, that is a major attraction for birds, bees and butterflies, is a source of endless fascination to the kids on my block. <br />
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<b>Feel free to leave a comment and share what your Club’s Youth Activities projects entail. All commenters will be eligible to win a copy of <i>Camp Granny</i>. The drawing will close December 20, 2018. </b><br />
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<b><i>Thea McGinnis is a gardener and writer, blog mistress, and a member of District III's Rock Spring Garden Club in Arlington, Virginia. </i></b><br />
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Photography by Sarah Farr<br />
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