Tips for Keeping Low-Maintenance Gardens over Summer
Emilia’s Garden Tips: Keeping Low-Maintenance Gardens Over Summer Step 1: Plant for Back to School Harvests & Lessons These crops need plenty of water at first to germinate but once…
Posts by Anne McGarvey
Planting Trees for Ukraine
Last week, the National Arboretum and U.S. Department of Agriculture welcomed special guests from Ukraine for a ceremonial tree planting. The Arboretum planted a Fort McNair pink horsechestnut (Aesculus x…
‘Ironing’ Out Phosphorus — Helping Nursery Plants Hold Their P
Dr. Jacob Shreckhise, Research Horticulturist at the National Arboretum’s nursery research center in McMinnville, TN, shares strategies for how container nurseries can keep phosphorus in pots and improve P efficiency.
Fighting Pests Through Genetics
The National Arboretum recently released two new hemlock hybrids into the American nursery industry. Tsuga ‘Traveler’ and Tsuga ‘Crossroad’ are both resistant to the hemlock wooly adelgid (HWA), a small sap-sucking insect that has decimated hemlock trees…
Bonsai Activities
Thank you to everyone who attended our Garden Fair & Plant Sale last Saturday! We had a wonderful day celebrating plants and sharing the National Arboretum with over 4,700 people…
Garden Fair & Plant Sale this Saturday!
FONA’s annual Garden Fair & Plant Sale is this Saturday, April 29th from 9 AM to 4 PM. Here are important details for Saturday’s event (keep scrolling for plant lists, vendors,…
Azaleas Have Arrived
Plant lists are here for next weekend’s Garden Fair & Plant Sale! Check out the list of plants our team of garden experts have ordered for this event, taking place…
Peak Blooms Abound
We’re gearing up for our annual Garden Fair & Plant Sale on Saturday, April 29th! This event will have thousands of plants for sale (plant lists coming soon), dozens of local…
Eaglets Spotted
FONA recently received a generous estate gift from the late Ms. Frances M. Duttkin. Frances Duttkin was born in January 1926 in New Lyme, Ohio to Russian immigrant parents, Anton…
Frogs & Forest Bathing Under the Full Moon
FONA is hosting two Full Moon Events during the evening of Thursday, April 6th. Join us for one of the following events: FrogWatch Thursday, April 6 | 7:30 PM –…
