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Spooky season brings us creepy but tame beneficial Garden Orb Weaver spiders – Featured Video
Come and see the big female garden orb weaver, she has a huge cicada in her web. View video on YouTube Joyce Browning Horticulturist, Master Gardener Coordinator Video credit: Bethany Evans Longwood Gardens Professional Gardener Program Alumni; CPH
Read MoreCreate a pollinator-friendly garden
What did you have for breakfast? If your plate included toast with jam, fresh berries, granola with nuts, coffee and juice, you had a nice balanced breakfast, right? Take away everything that needs a pollinator and your left with only dry…
Read MoreRain Gardens – The Garden Thyme Podcast
In this month’s episode, we are chatting all about the benefits of rain gardens (~12:45). Every time itrains, water runs off impervious surfaces such as roofs, driveways, roads, and parking lots, collectingpollutants along the way. Maryland’s average rainfall is about…
Read MoreMonarchs and Milkweed – The Garden Thyme Podcast
In this month’s episode, we are chatting about the marvelous relationship between monarch butterflies and milkweed. Undoubtedly, there is no other butterfly so easily recognized with its orange and black wings fringed with white spots. Their seasonal flight from Mexico through the United States towards Canada is long anticipated for gardeners.
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