Washington Gardener Enews October 2013

ENEWSLETTER

OCTOBER 2013

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This enewsletter is the sister publication of Washington Gardener Magazine. Both the print magazine and online enewsletter share the same mission and focus — helping DC-MD-VA region gardens grow — but our content is different. In this monthly enewsletter, we address timely seasonal topics and projects; post local garden events; and, a monthly list of what you can be doing now in your garden. We encourage you to subscribe to Washington Gardener Magazine as well for indepth articles, inspirational photos, and great garden resources for the Washington DC area gardener.

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Inside This Enews Issue • Back Issue Sale • Drink Your Garden • Garden To-Do List • How to Store Winter Squash, Carrots, and Beets • Latest Blog Links • Local Garden Events Listings • Magazine Excerpt: DayTrip to AnnMarie Sculpture Gardens • New Rose Varieties Inspired by “Downton Abbey” • Reader Contest to Win LavaMite • Ripen Green Tomatoes • Top Tulip Growing Tips and Sources

Summer-Fall 2013 Issue

Our Summer-Fall 2013 Washington Gardener Magazine issue is now mailing to all current subscribers. The cover story is on creating Magical Miniature Gardens also known as Faerie Gardens. You’ll also find in this issue: • Carrot Growing Tips • Plant Profile of Abelias • Kudzu Bugs Threaten Beans • Rose Rosette Disease Spreads • Annmarie Sculpture Gardens • Easy-to-Make Stepping Stones • Native Nashville Breadroot • Preventing Powdery Mildew • And much, much more... To subscribe, see the page 9 of this newsletter for a form to mail in or go to www.washingtongardener.com/index_ files/subscribe.htm and use our PayPal credit card link. Fall-Winter 2013 issue is in the works with a cover story on Fabulous Ferns!

Reader Contest

For our October 2013 Washington Gardener Reader Contest, we are giving away a 1-quart bottle of LavaMite (http://www. lavamite.com). The prize retail value is $35. LavaMite is an organic spray designed specifically to kill spider mites without hurting the host plant. It can been used on many different types of plants, including fruit and vegetable bearing plants, houseplants, and more. Simply spray LavaMite onto the leaves of the affected plant and all spider mites that come into contact with the spray will be dead within 30 minutes. To enter to win a 1-quart bottle of LavaMite, send an email with “Mite” in the subject line to WashingtonGardener@rcn.com by 5:00pm on Wednesday, October 30. In the body of the email please include your full name, email, mailing address, and tell us: “What is the scariest creature you have ever encountered in your garden? What made it so scarey?” The winner will be announced and notified by November 1. Some of the entry responses may be used in future Washington Gardener online or print articles.

Quick Links to Recent Washington Gardener Blog Posts • Furloughed in the Garden • How to Take Coleus Cuttings • Salvia ‘Black and Blue: You Can Grow That • Less Lawn, More Life Garden Tour Video • Trial Plants on Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day See more Washington Gardener Blog posts at WashingtonGardener.

October Garden To-Do List New Plant Spotlight “Downton Abbey” Roses Knockout Licensing Co-Presidents Carole Postal and Tamra Knepfer today announced that Weeks Roses (www.weeksroses.com) has been granted the right to breed new hybrid rose varieties inspired by the hit television series and to then sell its Downton Abbey roses to nurseries, garden centers, and wholesale traders who cater to independent retailers around the world. “Our Downton Abbey roses will be elegant, beautiful, and romantic but also surprisingly dramatic and tenacious... just like the show and characters that so many have come to love,” says Karen Kemp-Docksteader, Sales & Marketing Manager for Weeks Roses. Weeks Roses, located in Wasco, CA, is an award-winning wholesale rose grower with a reputation for high quality and unique offerings. Founded in 1938, Weeks is one of the largest commercial rose growers in the United States and the only company with a dedicated R&D department with hybridizer and staff for the development and creation of new rose introductions. “One of the things that makes the Downton Abbey license special is that it offers so many opportunities to expand into non-traditional product categories,” says Knepfer. “In thinking about Downton Abbey, we saw that a rose or breed of roses, would be an ideal representation of the timeless beauty and elegance the brand represents.”

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Here is our comprehensive garden task list for gardens in the greater DC metro region for October 15-November 16. Your additions to this list are most welcome: • Cover pond with netting to keep out fallen leaves and debris. • Harvest sweet potatoes. • Plant garlic. • Force the buds on Christmas Cactus by placing in a cool (55-60 degree) room and 13 hours of darkness. • Apply deer deterrent spray. • Prevent the spread of disease by cleaning up all infected plants and disposing of them in your trash — not your compost pile. • Plant cover crops in your vegetable gardens and annual beds (i.e. rye, clover, hairy vetch, winter peas). • Set-up a cold frame, then plant lettuces, radishes, and carrots from seed. • If you have a water garden, clean out the annual plants and compost them. Cut back the submerged hardy plants and group them to the deepest pond section. • Leave seedheads on black-eyed susans, echinacea, goldenrod, sunflowers, and thistles for the birds to enjoy over the winter. • Check for bagworms, pick off, bag, and dispose of them. • Dig up and store potatoes in a cool, dark spot. • Continue to divide and transplant perennials. • Rake leaves and gather in compost piles. • Pick pumpkins at a local pick-your-own farm or visit a local farmer’s market. • Cut garden herbs and hang to dry in cool, dry place indoors. • Start feeding birds to get them in the habit for this winter. • Attend a local garden club meeting. • Mulch strawberry beds for winter. • Turn your compost pile weekly and don’t let it dry out. Work compost into your planting beds. • Plant evergreens for winter interest. • Weed. • Plant spring-flowering bulbs. • Sow wildflower seeds, such as California Poppies, for next spring. • Collect dried flowers and grasses for an indoor vase. • Clean, sharpen, and store your garden tools. • Lightly fertilize indoor plants. • Pot up Paper Whites and Amaryllis for holiday blooming. • Check that all vines are securely tied for winter’s cold winds. • Collect plant seeds for next year’s planting and for trading. • Pull out spent summer annuals. • Plant hardy mums and fall season annuals. • Water evergreens and new plantings to keep them hydrated this winter. • Fertilize your lawn and re-seed if needed. • Dig up bulbs from your Gladiolus, cut off foliage, dry for a week, and then store for the winter. • Transplant trees and shrubs. • Gather seeds and carefully label them. Store in dry location. • Keep an eye out for the first frost date and insulate plants as needed. In Zone 6, it is expected between September 30-October 30 and in Zone 7 it is predicted between October 15-November 15.

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To store these crops in a refrigerator or in sand, start by harvesting the roots. Handle them gently to avoid bruising or nicking. Use scissors to cut off all but 1/2″ of the foliage. Rub the roots gently (do not wash them in water) to remove most soil. Don’t cut off the root end because this will invite decay.

How to Store Winter Squash, Beets and Carrots Winter Squash

Winter squash are fun to grow and easy to store. There are dozens of varieties, from the traditional acorn, Hubbard, butternut and buttercup, to spaghetti, delicata and golden nugget. Pie pumpkins, too! As with other storage crops, some squash varieties store well and some don’t, so choose accordingly. Squash plants take up a lot of space, but they’re not fussy about where they grow. You can usually plan on harvesting one or two good-sized squash from each plant. The usual recommendation is to put two to three plants (or seeds) in a little group, and space these “hills” about three-feet apart. After planting and fertilizing them, forget about your squash plants until the first light frost, when the leaves will die back and reveal your crop. For long storage life, when harvesting winter squash it’s important to leave some of the stem attached to the fruit. The best way to ensure this happens, is to use a stout knife or pruning shears to separate the stem from the vine. After harvesting, let your squash cure in a warm place (75 to 80 degrees F.) for 10 days or so. When ready for storage the outer skin should be very firm. Store winter squash in a cool (to 60 degrees F) place that’s well ventilated. Humidity should be relatively low: 30-50%. Check your stored squash monthly to identify and use up any fruit that shows sign of decay.

Beets and Carrots

For refrigerator storage, lie similar-sized, same-variety vegetables in a single layer in gallon freezer bags. Remove as much air as possible before sealing each bag. Stack bags flat on a shelf or in a drawer in the refrigerator. Check monthly for decay and use those first. Beets will stay hard and sweet for five months or more; carrots should last almost as long. Should there be fine root hairs or a little decay, simply peel this off; the root itself will be fine. A second technique is to store these crops in moist sand. Prepare the roots as above. Moisten clean sand in a large container or wheelbarrow. Pack the vegetables into a tub, wooden box, 5-gallon bucket, plastic-lined cardboard box, or a Root Storage Bin. Start by placing several inches of moist sand on the bottom of the storage container. Lay vegetables on the sand in a single layer, not touching each other. Cover them completely with sand and continue layering until box or bin is full. Top with a layer of moist sand. Container will be heavy when full, so plan accordingly. Remove the stored vegetables as needed. A third technique (for cool climates) is to store these crops right in the ground. Before hard frost, cover un-harvested carrots and beets with a 12-18″ layer of straw or leaves. (The shoulders of beets are susceptible to frost damage, so be sure to cover them before heavy frost). Lift back the mulch and harvest as needed. If spring comes before all the roots have been harvested, dig them up then use them up before the soil begins to warm.

Other Root Crops

How about storing those lesser-known root crops? Rutabagas store well in the refrigerator; prep and store as for beets and carrots. Parsnips may be stored in damp sand or can be left in the ground under mulch. Celeraic can be stored in either the refrigerator or in damp sand.

Article Source

National Garden Bureau (http://www.ngb.org/) would like to thank Kathy LaLiberte and Gardeners Supply for supplying this article.

For winter storage, choose beet and carrot varieties known to be good keepers. Vegetables store best when they’re harvested at — not past — maturity. This is especially true for beets and carrots. In most areas, this means that crops intended for winter storage are not sown until late June or July. To maintain good eating quality, carrots and beets need to be kept at a constant temperature of between 32 and 40 degrees F, and at 90 to 95 percent humidity. There are three ways that home gardeners can provide these ideal storage conditions: in a refrigerator, in moist sand or right in the garden. 4

Garden Tips and Tricks Top Tulips Growing Tips

Tulips and other spring-blooming bulbs are the ultimate “set it and forget it” plants. Just dig a hole in fall and plop the bulbs in, cover, and forget about them until they bloom in the spring. Tulips like a sunny spot in well-draining soil. They do not like sitting in wet spots or full shade. Most public gardens and many veteran gardeners treat tulips as annuals and just pull and compost them after they bloom. They will return for you for a few years, but eventually will peter out. So just budget and plan to replace them every couple of years and experiment with new varieties while you are at it. By the way, there is no need to cut the foliage back or tie it up. Just let it die back naturally. If the sight of dying foliage bothers you, just plant new spring annuals and perennials around them to fill in and disguise the decaying leaves. Deer and squirrels can pester your tulips so apply an organic deterrent like blood meal, hot pepper spray, or deer repellent, if that is an issue for you.

Top Tulip Sources

• Your local independent garden center. • Brent and Becky’s Bulbs > https://store.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/ • D. Landreth Seed Co. > http://www.landrethseeds.com/ • EcoTulips > http://www.ecotulips.com/ • Old House Gardens > http://www.oldhousegardens.com/

Got Green Tomatoes?

Do you have tomatoes that are just sitting and staying green on the vine? Here are a few tips to get them to ripen up. Early fall is the time of year in the vegetable garden when summer bounty is slowing down. The gardener must decide whether to rip out the tomato plants or leave them in the ground in case we get a few more warm days. If you have green tomatoes on your plants and want to get them to ripen up, here are a few tips. • Feed your tomato plants with some compost tea or fish emulsion fertilizer to give them a last burst of energy to finish up. • Pick off tomato blossoms now to channel energy to fruit already forming that will (hopefully) mature before frost. • If a light frost is predicted, cover your plants with a floating row cover cloth to get a few extra days or weeks of growing season. • Pull up the whole tomato plant and hang it in your garage/

cellar/basement/shed to get the last of the tomatoes to ripen. • Harvest all of the green tomatoes and ripen them inside. Some people set them on a sunny windowsill, others put them in brown paper bags -- still others wrap them in newspaper and store them in a cardboard box. All these methods seem to work equally as well. Still not ripening for you or just don’t want to wait? You can use up you green tomatoes in the following ways: • Fry up some Fried Green Tomatoes. • Add along with a few red tomatoes and a can of tomato paste to a make a sauce. They will work just as well. • Pickle them. • Make green tomato relish. • Blend them into a Salsa Verde. With a little effort, you can squeeze out a last harvest and use for those stubborn green tomatoes.

Drink Your Garden?

From green smoothies to raspberries in your champagne glass, you can add a bit of your garden to your beverages. You may already grow edibles in your garden, but have you thought about growing “drinkable” plants? The latest trend in home gardens is to add herbs, fruits, vegetables, and greens to your beverages. Here are several fun, easy ways to experiment with drinking your garden: • Grow your own kale and throw a bunch in a blender along with a handful of fruit and a cup of juice for a yummy green smoothie. • Gather a handful of lavender and use it in your next batch of lemonade. See the recipe here: http://www.simplyrecipes. com/recipes/lavender_lemonade/. • Pick raspberry leaves, place in a mug and pour almost-boiling water over them, let steep for a minute, then remove the leaves and drink the delicious tea. • Serve champagne with some fresh fruit from your garden, like blueberries, dropped in. • Dry some chamomile blossoms and add them to your tea on a chilly evening. • Plant some wine grapes and hops vine and take a course in home brewing. For several more ideas about how to drink your garden, check out to new books on the subject: The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart and Drink Your Own Garden by Judith Glover. Amy Stewart will also be speaking at several local public gardens this month. See our event announcements on pages 6-7 of this enewsletter for more details.

About the Author

Kathy Jentz is editor/publisher of Washington Gardener Magazine.

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TOP AREA GARDENING EVENTS DC-Area Gardening Calendar ~ Upcoming Events ~ October 16 - November 15, 2013 • Thursday, October 17, 2:00–3:30pm Local Gardening Challenges We’ll take it to the next level and talk about local gardening challenges like poor landscape drainage, gardening on a slope, dealing with deer, planting in clay soil, and more. We’ll examine case studies of local gardeners who have conquered these common garden challenges with instructor Kathy Jentz, Editor/Publisher of the Washington Gardener Magazine. Course #248804, Fee: $18; FOBG: $15; registration required Visitors Center Auditorium Walk-ins welcome. Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, MD. Details at: http://www.montgomeryparks.org/brookside/xperience.shtm. • Wednesday, September 17, 6:30-9pm Botanical Happy Hour and Lecture with Amy Stewart Join Brookside Gardens and Amy Stewart, author of the New York Times bestseller The Drunken Botanist, for an exploration of the dizzying array of plants that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into

Advanced Landscape Plant IPM PHC Short Course January 21-24, 2014 For registration information contact: Avis Koeiman Department of Entomology 4112 Plant Sciences Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Tel: 301-405-3913 Email: akoeiman@umd.edu  6

alcohol. From the sugar cane that gives us Caribbean rum, to the juniper berries that flavor gin, Amy Stewart takes a most intoxicating perspective on the leaves, bark, seeds, roots, flowers, and fruit imbibed around the world. Before the lecture, enjoy a botanical happy hour and book signing with Amy! Course number 245899, Fee: $40, FOBG: $30. Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, MD. Details at: http://www. montgomeryparks.org/brookside/xperience.shtm. •Saturday-Sunday, October 19-20, 9am-4pm Landreth’s 6th Annual Heirloom Bulb Sale More than 30 different heirloom garlic varieties, more than 100 different flowering bulb varieties plus onions, shallots, elephant garlic and seeds. Held at the Landreth warehouse on 60 E. High Street, New Freedom, PA 17349. Details at www.landrethseeds.com. • Saturday, October 19, 9am-5pm Baltimore African Violet and Gesneriad Club Fall Sale To be held at The Shops at Kenilworth, 800 Kenilworth Drive, Towson MD, the sale will feature many unbelievable and unusual plants. The sales tables will hold hundreds of beautiful African violet, gesneriads, and other exotic houseplants. Also available will be leaves, cuttings, and many growing supplies including soil mix, plant rings, self-watering pots and much more. Experienced growers will be there to answer your growing questions. For additional information please contact Shirley Huffman at 301-854-2021 or bshuffman2@aol.com. • Saturday, October 19, 10:30am12:30pm Fall Foliage Tea and Tour Fall colors explode at Tudor Place! Enjoy them across the estate’s 5.5-acre landscape with Director of Gardens and Grounds Suzanne Bouchard as your guide. Suzanne will highlight Tudor Place’s historic tree specimens and fall foliage, including several 200-yearold witness trees, many of them with stories of their own. After your walk,

enjoy a full afternoon tea complete with scones, sandwiches, and petite desserts in the Victorian Dower House. Tudor Place Historic House and Garden. 1644 31st Street, NW, Washington, DC. Details at www.TudorPlace.org. •Saturday-Sunday, October 19, 1-5pm and October, 20, 10am-3pm Brookside Gardens Annual Mum Show and Sale October is the time to enjoy chrysanthemums and you will see some of the best this weekend at the Brookside Gardens Annual Mum Show and Sale. This is a free event sponsored by the Potomac Chrysanthemum Society. Experts will be there to answer your questions and you will want to have your camera in hand to photograph the beautiful chrysanthemums. Plan your visit time for a walk through the gardens and to see the current exhibit in the Conservatory. A free map of the gardens is available at the Visitors Center. The Conservatory Chrysanthemum Display: Chrysanthemum Craftsmanship will run from October through Sunday, November 25, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. daily; FREE, Brookside Gardens Conservatory. Brookside Gardens, 1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton, MD 20902. General Information: 301-962-1400 • Sunday, October 20, 2013, 2:00 pm All About Rose Rosette Disease Potomac Rose Society hosts speaker: Connie Hilker at the Franciscan Monastery, 1400 Quincy Street, NE Washington, DC. Come and learn about this insidious viral disease of roses — how to recognize the symptoms and what to do if you see it on your bushes. Connie Hilker, CR, is a member of the Richmond Rose Society and owner of Hartwood Roses in Fredericksburg. This event is Free and Open to all. More details at http://potomacrose.org/. • Saturday, October 20, 1-2pm Amy Stewart’s The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Greatest Drinks Who knew that horticulture was such an intoxicating subject? In her followup to the New York Times bestsellers

TOP AREA GARDENING EVENTS DC-Area Gardening Calendar ~ Upcoming Events ~ October 16 - November 15, 2013 Wicked Bugs and Wicked Plants, Amy Stewart explores the odd, unusual and surprisingly common plants that have produced the world’s greatest spirits. The Drunken Botanist uncovers the fascinating science and chemistry of over 150 plants, flowers, trees, fruits, and even a few fungi. Book signing to follow lecture. Code: 2904875801. Fee: $18. Register online at www.fairfaxcounty. gov/parks/greenspring or call Green Spring Gardens 703-642-5173. • Tuesday October 22, 7pm Inspired to Rock: The Gardens and Places that Inspired Ian to Grow Rock Garden Plants and How He has Interpreted them In His Own Garden J Ian Young is an accomplished artist, photographer, writer, lecturer and plantsman extraordinaire. Along with his wife, Margaret, Ian has gardened for 40 years in Aberdeen, Scotland. He has concentrated his attention on the study of bulb cultivation (but not to the exclusion of other plants) for the past 20 years and has written a Bulb Log Diary, for the Scottish Rock Garden Club web site, since 2003. Ian is also part of the editorial team (including his wife Margaret) who created the much looked-forward-to monthly e-magazine “International Rock Gardener.“ Club details at: www.pvcnargs.org. McLean Community Center, 1234 Ingleside Ave, McLean, VA 22101 (703) 790-0123. http://www.mcleancenter. org/about/directions. • Saturday, October 26, 1-4pm Celebrate Food Day at ECO City Farms! Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement for healthy, affordable, and sustainable food. Visit ECO City Farms in Edmonston, MD, to experience where food comes from, find out who is producing local, affordable produce, and learn about healthy eating and active living. We’ll have music, food, farm tours, activities for kids, cooking demonstrations and our famous smoothie bike. For more info, visit: www.ecocityfarms.org. This event is free. Location is ECO City Farms, 4913 Crittenden Street, Edmonston, MD.

• Thursday, October 31, 1:30-2:30pm The Dark Side of Gardening Take a look at the dark side of gardening with Karen Rexrode as she shows you some of her more unusual planting experiments, creating containers and terrariums using odd plants. Be encouraged to try some new and unique things and have a few Halloween laughs. Bwahahaha. Light refreshments served. Code: 290 487 4301, Fee: $20. Register on-line at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/greenspring or call Green Spring Gardens 703-642-5173. • Thursday, November 7, 6:00pm “To Make A Farm” Farm Fresh Flicks Often considered a way of life from the past, today there is a movement of young people without farming backgrounds taking up this challenging profession. “To Make A Farm” follows the lives of five such young people through their first seasons on the land, as the joys and disappointments of bringing life from the earth become a quiet manifesto for social change. Documentary filmmaker Steve Suderman searches his own family history in farming to wonder if the mistakes of the past can be avoided this time through. Each ticket is $15 per person or $50 per person for the full four-film series. Your ticket purchase helps support on-going agricultural education, demonstrations, and innovation driven by the Maryland Agricultural Resource Council. Doors open at 5:30 with films beginning at 6:00 followed by discussion. Location: Baltimore County Center for Maryland Agriculture and Farm Park, 1114 Shawan Rd., Cockeysville, MD 21030. Buy tickets at http://farmfreshflicks.eventbrite.com/. • Saturday, November 9, 5-8pm Friends of Brookside Gardens Silent Auction Proceeds benefit the Brookside Gardens. Fee: $35/person; $25 for members of the Friends before October 19. Registration required. Brookside Gardens Visitor Center, 1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton, Md. 301-962-1435. FriendsofBrooksideGardens@yahoo. com.

• Friday, November 15, 10am-12noon Can We Sustain Our Love for the American Lawn? Turfgrass is a major component of our landscapes, and its sustainability has been questioned more than any other landscape feature. Join Dr. Frank Rossi of Cornell University as he shares his experience with turfgrass and sustainability research and offers a glimpse into the future of the American lawn. Begin with an overview of the Arboretum’s new Grass Roots Exhibit, followed by Dr. Rossi’s lecture and an exhibit groundbreaking ceremony. Free. U.S. National Arboretum, 3501 New York Ave., NE, Washington, DC 20002; (202) 245-2726, www.usna.usda.gov.

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• Presentation: Seeing Trees on Saturday, November 23. Join Nancy Ross Hugo for a special afternoon to discuss the behind the scenes work and research that inspired her acclaimed nature book Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secret Lives of Everyday Trees. This event is cosponsored by the Friends of the National Arboretum and Casey Trees.

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To submit an event for this listing, please contact: Wgardenermag@aol.com and put “Event” in the email subject head. Our next deadline is November 12 for the November 15 edition of this enewsletter featuring events taking place Nov 16 - Dec 15.

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2008 • Autumn Edibles — What to Plant Now • Beguiling Barrenworts (Epimediums) • The Best Time to Plant Spring-blooming Bulbs • 14 Dry Shade Plants Too Good to Overlook NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2008 • Outdoor Lighting Essentials • How to Prune Fruiting Trees, Shrubs, and Vines • 5 Top Tips for Overwintering Tender Bulbs • Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009 • Compost Happens: Nature’s Free Fertilizer • Managing Stormwater with a Rain Garden • Visiting Virginia’s State Arboretum • Grow Winter Hazel for Gorgeous Winter Color MARCH/APRIL 2009 • 40+ Free and Low-cost Local Garden Tips • Spring Edibles Planting Guide for the Mid-Atlantic • Testing Your Soil for a Fresh Start • Redbud Tree Selection and Care • Best Viewing Spots for Virginia Bluebells

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Magazine Excerpt: DayTrip to AnnMarie Sculpture Gardens by Cheval Force Opp

Yes, there is still time to visit an island garden this season. Take a day trip to an historic oyster town with a pearl of a garden — Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center. Tucked away where the Patuxent River meets the Chesapeake Bay sits tiny Solomons Island. This twosquare-mile town was ranked by Coastal Living in 2012 as one of the top happiest places to live on the coast. There is no doubt Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center adds points to the happy score of this Maryland seaside community. Inhabited since colonial times, Solomons Island takes its name from 19th-century Baltimore businessman Isaac Solomon, who established a successful oyster-packing facility there shortly after the Civil War. Solomons’ home still fronts this sliver of land facing the U.S. Patuxent River Naval Air Station across the Chesapeake Bay. After driving around the quaint town enjoying the water views, I asked some locals where the island began. They laughed and explained I had driven over it. The shallow water gap that once made Solomons an island is now full of the oyster shells left by generations of watermen harvesting oysters from the bay. Annmarie Garden began as a private 1950’s retreat for Washington architect and builder Francis Koenig and his wife, Ann Marie. For over 50 years, they relished escaping from Washington’s frenetic pace to unwind in their Calvert County bayshore home. In 1991, they decided to share their love of this picturesque region by donating 30 acres bordering St. John’s Creek to the county. Travels to European gardens inspired the couple to acquire six large works of art and position them in open-air settings to enjoy amid changing seasons. Today, paths wind under high canopies of Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), Sassafras (Sassafras albidum), and Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) past flower-strewn meadows enveloping visitors in a tranquility that encourages meditation on the landscape and sculptures ... Want to learn more Abelias? Read the rest of this DayTrip column in the Summer-Fall 2013 issue of Washington Gardener Magazine. See how to subscribe below to start with this issue.

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Washington Gardener Enews October 2013

Published on Oct 16, 2013

Kathy J

This enewsletter is the sister publication of Washington Gardener Magazine. Both the print magazine and online enewsletter share the same mission and focus — helping DC-MD-VA region gardens grow — but our content is different. In this monthly enewsletter, we address timely seasonal topics and projects; post local garden events; and, a monthly list of what you can be doing now in your garden. Inside This Enews Issue • Back Issue Sale • Drink Your Garden • Garden To-Do List • How to Store Winter Squash, Carrots, and Beets • Latest Blog Links • Local Garden Events Listings • Magazine Excerpt: DayTrip to AnnMarie Sculpture Gardens • New Rose Varieties Inspired by “Downton Abbey” • Reader Contest to Win LavaMite • Ripen Green Tomatoes • Top Tulip Growing Tips and Sources