Betsy Washington highly recommends these two upcoming talks, for which some will have already seen earlier promotions, by a couple of our more accomplished native planters. Chris Ludwig is already known personally to some, and has previously given at least one in-person talk to the NNNPS. Please try to make time for one or both; if unavailable at those hours, we’ll try to get the url for their recordings and publicise them when released.
Read MoreDUG IN FARMS
New Format and New Opportunities!
NNNPS has had to change the venue and format of our popular Annual Fall Native Plant Sale this year. We have worked out a wonderful agreement with Carolyn Quinn of Dug In Farms on Fleets Bay Rd, to sell our Native Plants and are offering many new features to making shopping convenient and safe.
This year’s Sale will be held EVERY DAY from Saturday, Sept. 19th, through Saturday Oct 10. Our beautiful Native Plants will be on sale every day during these four weeks so you can shop at your convenience and avoid the crowds. Volunteers will re-stock plants each week to be sure we have fresh supply of plants available during the entire sale.
Knowledgeable Volunteers will be on hand each Saturday morning from 9:00 – 12:00 (Sept. 19, Sept. 26, and Oct. 3 and 10th) to help you pick the perfect native plants for your gardens. We will have our free Guide to Northern Neck Native Plants, and other helpful brochures on Designing Bay Friendly Landscapes with NN natives, and on Deer Resistant and Salt Tolerant plants.
Read MoreThere will be no traditional Native Plant Sale and no Market Days Make-up Sale at Wicomico Parish Church this year. The stars are not aligned this year—masks, gloves, sanitizers, social distancing—plus comparing notes with other like-minded local non-profits, made us come to this conclusion.
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HERE’S A TED MUNNS RECOMMENDATION FOR A VIDEO WORTH WATCHING
Virginia Home Grown visits The Quarry Gardens at Schuyler for the 3rd show of its 20th season
Read MoreFrom the age of 9, I grew up as Marion Louise Coble in Stanley, NC from 1955 through 1968. As a child I explored the woods about my home on North Peterson Street. An intersecting street was East Poplar where I found a woody plant with very large leaves. I even pressed some of the smaller leaves of this tree for my Girl Scout “Tree” merit badge. All of us children in the neighborhood called this plant “Elephant Ears.”
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RESOURCES AND LITERATURE – APRIL 2019
BY BETSY WASHINGTON - BWASH99@VERIZON.NET
For the second year in a row, our chapter conducted a successful plant sale at the St. Stephen’s Strawberry Festival held in Heathsville on May 25. The Festival is one of the largest community events in the Northern Neck.
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The following native plant oriented editorials are from the Richmond Times Dispatch. The first one is by RTD opinions editor, Pamela Stallsmith, and the second one is a response to Pamela by our own NNNPS President, Ted Munns.
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A stalwart group joined me for a trip to Norfolk Botanical Gardens (NBG) on Thursday February 21st despite a sequence of rainy dark days with the forecast for more of the same.
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The first major upgrade since the App was released a year ago at the Tri-State Native Plant Conference is now available.
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In late afternoon of Thursday, August 30, 2018, Beth Kendrick and I planted a Goldenclub in the pond off the 12th hole at ICYCC. Goldenclub [Orontium aquaticum] is one of the Northern Neck’s quirky native plants that in my travels, I have not seen growing.
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American Beauty-berry is a favorite native with it shiny bright berries in the fall that provide good food for warblers and other migrating songbirds. Photo by Betsy Washington.
The Northern Neck Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society (NNNPS) will host its annual native plant sale from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, September 8 at Wicomico Parish Church (Episcopal) on Rte 200 in Wicomico Church.
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Photos from the NNNPS Hickory Hollow Field Trip on Thursday, April 19,2018.
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NNNPS had a table at the NAPS Earth Day event during the Heathsville Farmer's Market on April 21, 2018. Here are some Photos of the day taken by Betsy Washington.
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