September Gardening Tips and Tasks
… for upcoming seed shares. Wait on pruning perennial plants until late next spring. Certain bees and other … leaving their egg masses be, and planting a diversity of native plants. Scoliid wasp adults (also known as digger … beneficial predators (do not target and kill non-native mantid species). Support these predators by leaving …
Spiders in Maryland
… are most often found in basement window wells, beneath lawn benches or porches, and in garages, tool sheds, old …
Garden Gateway Into The Past
County Gardens and Activities
Frederick County Fourth Graders Explore "The Wonderful World of Grains"
Deer Resistant Native Plants
… With the current overabundance of deer, gardening with plants resistant to deer browsing is key to successful … narrow or bare base to the height of the browse line. If a native plant is too vulnerable to survive deer in your … hundreds of thousands of acres of natural areas in which native plants could thrive, species susceptible to browsing …
Insects: Our Most Under-Appreciated Neighbors
… of insect pollinators: Bees, wasps, beetles, flies, ants, butterflies, and moths Other types of pollinators: Birds and …
Removing Invasive Plants and Planting Natives in Maryland
… A lot teeming with foreign invasive plants like Callery pear, English ivy, autumn olive, and … about replacing invasive plants Invasive plants are not native and harm the environment, economy, and even human … to their biology. Replace invasive plants with competitive native plant species that are appropriate for the soil and …
Playing in Nature
Japanese Maple Scale Woody Ornamental Host Plants (EB-1)
… common lilac Syringa vulgaris ‘President Grevy’, ‘Primrose’ common lilac FAMILY: Rhamnaceae Genus/Species …