Our houseplant expert answers questions about how to help a plant that's lost leaves and how to pot up a cutting with water propagated roots ..read more

Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic Delicate, arching, semi-evergreen leaves define this native sedge found in much of the Mid-Atlantic Region. In dry shade where lawn maintenance is a challenge, this substitute never needs mowing ..read more

The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have created a new series of short videos about locally invasive plants and native alternatives. This month's post is on Callery Pear (Pyrus calleryana ..read more

Vegetable gardening information and events for April 2024 ..read more

Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic Common in woodlands throughout the Mid-Atlantic, this native provides seasonal interest from early spring blossoms through vivid fall color. Edible fruit is ready for picking early summer, but there will be competition with 58 wildlife and 35 bird species that use this tree ..read more

How does one put into words the feelings of loss when two steadfast tree friends who stood as bookends towering over the Woodland/Shade, Native Plant, and Asian Gardens, are declared “unsafe?” Each of these carefully cultivated teaching gardens within the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden suddenly lost its shade as our two oldest trees were cut down to stumps within weeks of each other ..read more

Tried and True Native Plant Selection for the Mid-Atlantic Southern Lady Fern typically grows in wooded ravines, moist woods, and floodplains from southern New England to the southern United States. This native is common throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region, except for northern/northeastern Pennsylvania. Delicate and graceful, feathery fronds give rise to its name ..read more

The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have created a new series of short videos about locally invasive plants and native alternatives. This month's post is on Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna ..read more

Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic The creeping habit of Moss Phlox can form a flower carpet as breathtaking in a residential rock garden or sprawling over rock walls as on the mountain slopes and open woodlands of its natural Mid-Atlantic habitat. (In NoVA, it's native to Fairfax County ..read more

Learn tips and tricks to interpreting the information on the plant tags that come with your houseplants ..read more