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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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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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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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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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Things Go Better With Bitters
Article published in Pathways Magazine Winter 2012-13 issue: By Jim Duke and Helen Lowe Metzman Jim’s Rant on Bitters: Where once the green trees were kissed by the sunrise There’s a highrise ‘tween the sunrise and the smog in your … Continue reading
Plant Rant: Jim Duke’s Herb a Day on St. John’s-[Wort] Day
Celebrating Saint John, June 24 (adapted, edited and updated from Jim’s “electronic online newsletter” archives from 2001 and 1989) The week spanning Father’s Day (June 17, 2001) to St. John’s Day (June 24, 2001), stresses a saintly plant, St. John’s-wort, … Continue reading
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