Video Wednesday: Community Harvest

Community Harvest celebrates the natural and cultural harvests of our community, documenting the dramatic transformation of a forgotten vacant urban alley in our Nation's Capital into a majestic public garden and collaborative green space.

Win Passes to the Washington Home and Garden Show

For our March 2013 Washington Gardener Reader Contest, Washington Gardener is giving away several pairs of tickets to the Washington Home & Garden Show at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. The show runs from Friday, March 22 to Sunday, March 24. Tickets are $12 each at the door or $9 if ordered in advance online.

      The Washington Home & Garden Show is better than ever with more diverse exhibits, more categories, and more presentations on our fabulous stage! The show offers a unique and broad selection of home improvement-related businesses. You’ll enjoy various entertaining features and special guest speakers including local master gardeners. Get ideas, investigate new products, gather information and meet the professionals to help you make your next remodeling, renovation, or decorating project a breeze! To find out more, visit their web site: www.washingtonhomeandgardenshow.com.

      To enter to win one of pairs of show tickets, send an email with “WHGShow” in the subject line to WashingtonGardener@rcn.com by 5:00pm on Wednesday, March 20. In the body of the email please include your full name, email, and mailing address. The ticket winners will be announced and notified by Thursday, March 21.

UPDATE:

The following individuals won our March Reader Contest: 

Arlene Markowicz

Diane Svenonius

Roxanne Sykes

Jeffrey Trunzo

Alyssia Greiner

Dorothy Cichra

Rajat Sarkar

Jessica Bilics

Sarah Lawler

Beth Py-Lieberman

The each receive a pair of tickets to the Washington Home & Garden Show at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. The show runs from Friday, March 22 to Sunday, March 24. Tickets are $12 each at the door or $9 if ordered in advance online.

      The Washington Home & Garden Show is better than ever with more diverse exhibits, more categories, and more presentations on our fabulous stage! The show offers a unique and broad selection of home improvement-related businesses. You’ll enjoy various entertaining features and special guest speakers including local master gardeners. Get ideas, investigate new products, gather information and meet the professionals to help you make your next remodeling, renovation, or decorating project a breeze! To find out more, visit their web site: www.washingtonhomeandgardenshow.com.

Be sure to see Washington Gardener Magazine at Booth 605!
Kathy Jentz, Editor/Publisher,  Washington Gardener Magazine, will be speaking on Saturday and Sunday on Local Gardening Challenges (Deer! Clay Soil! Drainage Issues!).

Washington Gardener Enews ~ March 2013 ~ No-Stress Gardening

The Washington Gardener Enews ~ March 2013 issue is now sent to all current Washington Gardener Magazine subscribers. It is also posted and archived online at: http://issuu.com/washingtongardener/docs/wgenews-mar13

 INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
~ No-Stress Gardening: Why I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love the Weeds

~ Top Local Garden Events Calendar for March-April

~ Magazine Excerpt: How to Make Seed Tape

~ Mid-Atlantic Garden To-Do List for March-April
~ Reader Contest: Passes to the Washington Home & Garden Show

~ WashingtonGardener's Recent Blog Post Highlights
~ Spotlights Special: "Under the Sea" Coleus

~ Washington Gardener Magazine Back Issue Sale!
and much more... 

You can access it as well as all of the other Washington Gardener Enews back issues online now and anytime in the future at http://issuu.com/washingtongardener/docs/.

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day: Windy March

It has been so windy here for the past few days that this is the only decent photo I have been able to get from all the blooms in my garden for this monthly Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day post.

This is an Iris Reticulata 'Harmony.'
Also in bloom now in my zone 7 DC/MD border garden are:
~ Viola
~ Primrose
~ Daffodils 'Tete a Tete'
~ Daffodils 'February Gold'
~ Daffodils 'Ice Follies'
~ Hellebores
~ Crocus 'Pickwick'
~ Crocus 'Remembrance'
~ Snowdrops common sp.
~ Winter Jasmine (still!)
~ Heather
~ Nemesia 'Poetry Blue'*
~ Pansy 'Cool Wave Purple'*
~ Pansy 'Cool Wave Golden Yellow'*

So what is blooming in YOUR garden today?


*I'm trialing these cool-season annuals for PanAmerican Seed.

Video Wednesday: Garden Flashback

Local gardener, Deloris Bailey, made this slide show from pictures of her 2012 garden plot in Reston, VA.

Video Wednesday: Philadelphia Flower Show 2013

Big Ben video show of British pop culture music and celebrities from the Philadelphia Flower Show 2013.

Winter Aconite: You Can Grow That!

Winter Aconite (Eranthis) is a small bulb in bloom now in area gardens. It is in the buttercup family and the little yellow flowers are a delight to see on cold, windy late winter days.

They tolerate frost and ice well – looking good even in the worst conditions.

Plant them under deciduous trees and in woodland settings. They are ephemeral so will disappear as other early spring plants are filling in.

You can buy bulbs to plant in the fall. If you want to propagate them, wait until the foliage starts to die back, then dig up the tubers, divide and re-plant them.

Garden Bloggers You Can Grow That! Day was started by C. L. Fornari of Whole Life Gardening because she believes “Gardening is one of the most life-affirming things we can do.…We need to thoroughly saturate people with the belief that plants and gardening are worth doing because of the benefits gained.” Garden bloggers who agree post about something worth growing on the fourth day of every month. Read this month’s You Can Grow That! posts or stop by the You Can Grow That! Facebook page to read all of the posts.