FONA Field Notes

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…

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…

Enjoy summer at the National Arboretum! We’re collaborating with lots of local partners to host exciting activities and events this season, including…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…