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It’s Spooky Season!
Welcome to Spooky Season, dear friends of The Green Farmacy Garden! In our area, you’ve surely noticed nuts and leaves starting to blanket the ground and show off their transformative processes — whether decay or regeneration. These annual occurrences at … Continue reading
August Scenes: Fruits, Flowers, and Arboreal Reincarnation
The Green Farmacy Garden is transitioning to fall, with ripening Peterson Pawpaws, figs, and persimmons. Late-blooming flowers and diverse wildlife uplift, and witnessing literal rebirth entrances. Continue reading
Diverse Delights: Summer Snapshot of GFG Flora and Fauna
The Green Farmacy Garden experienced extreme weather this summer, affecting plant life. Notable encounters include a Great Blue Heron and a trumpet-blowing doe. The garden’s Myoga plant blossomed, and Bai Zhi (Angelica dahurica) was a standout biennial. Insect observations included Spotted Lanternflies and a diverse array of other species. The Garden invites visitors to explore its public events and programs. Continue reading
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Hot Start to Summer
As locals will have noticed.. it’s been a sweltering start to summer here in Maryland! Good bit of dry, good bit of soupy humidity, but consistent heat throughout. Many plants are struggling, though a few seem delighted, but I’ll go … Continue reading
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Spring Garden Highlights: Treasures, Challenges, and Events
We’re squeezing a lot into this Spring finale.. grateful for all the rain this season, and also for the breaks in between. This spring has seen a curious and concerning wilting phenomenon throughout the garden, affecting various but specific woody … Continue reading
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May the 4th Be With You!
Happy Naked Gardening Day! And May Day, and Beltane! So many opportunities to celebrate the height of Spring 🙂 In the Garden Terraces, Crampbark (Viburnum opulus), Hardy Orange (Citrus trifoliata), and Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) have finished blooming. Leaves of biennials … Continue reading
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Spring has Sprung!
What a difference a month makes!The Hellebores (Hellebore spp) are still going strong, but many of the native spring ephemerals have already completed their brief bloom phases. Below (clockwise from top left), a bumblebee works the Hellebores; native Bluebells (Mertensia … Continue reading
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Rounding the Corner into SPRING-time!
This morning as a group of local herb growers convened for a networking knowledge-share, we were excited by 5 hawks causing a ruckus overhead for an hour – the most we’ve seen at once! Numerous songbirds were seen and heard … Continue reading
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Breaking Dormancy – 2024 Season Kicks in!
It’s already halfway to spring [from the solstice]! Since we last posted, the Garden has been blanketed in & released from snow; the earliest in-ground bloomers have popped up & sprung to action; tropicals have been blooming in the greenhouse and studio; and CEI’s been awarded … Continue reading
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Season’s Greetings and Year-End Updates
The winter solstice marks the Garden’s first full year operated by Community Ecology Institute (CEI). As the Dukes’ passion project, The Green Farmacy Garden was neither conceived nor historically run as a business, and had been almost entirely privately funded its first 25 years. … Continue reading
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The Green Farmacy Garden, care of CEI 