From Plant to Portrait
Each school year, DC students aged pre-kindergarten through middle school visit the Washington Youth Garden on field trips. While FONA staff lead many of these trips, for the first time this…
Posts by Anne McGarvey
Summer Planning
Every school year, our School Garden Support team hosts bi-annual events in the fall and spring focused on preparing educators to shift their garden with the seasons. In late March,…
Planting Seeds for the Future
Our garden team harvested 423 pounds of garlic from Washington Youth Garden last week! Harvesting garlic is a major milestone each year in WYG. Last fall, over 200 families, volunteers, and…
Summer Event Guide
Enjoy summer at the National Arboretum! We’re collaborating with lots of local partners to host exciting activities and events this season, including…
Infrastructure Projects at the Arboretum
If you’ve been to the National Arboretum in the last few months, you may have noticed some major construction projects underway. A new, taller ornamental perimeter fence is replacing the…
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…
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…
