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Category Archives: environmental education
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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Tagged birds, flowers, garden, gardening, herbalism, insects, medicinal_plants, native-plants, nature, plants, pollinators
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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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Tagged flowers, garden, gardening, herbalism, medicinal_plants, native-plants, nature, plants, pollinators, wilt
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Turning the Wheel to Welcome Autumn
As the plants near completion of their annual cycle, so too do all the animals whose lives are linked to theirs. This past month in the garden we’ve witnessed a cicada killer seizing a cicada; a tiger swallowtail butterfly escape … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, insects, interdependence, medicinal plants, nature, plants, reptiles, snakes, wildlife
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Plant Rant: Skunk Cabbage – Passing the stink test.
10 March 2012 Time to get back to the garden begins in early March. One of our two new head gardeners, Anna Wallis, started with me this week, and together we have been cutting down the winter botany stubble, weeding … Continue reading
Plant Rant: Frost Flowers!!!!
29 December 2011 This morning’s email report from Jim regarding the garden and the greenhouse: “At 7:00 I was surprised that there are white conical and ribbonlike frost flowers, not a full inch tall but impressive. No frost on my … Continue reading
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