Moss for Beginner at Woodward Garden Club

September 21, 2011: Linda Davis presented a program on Moss for Beginners to the Woodmoor Garden Club. Davis and her husband Charlies have inventoried mosses and liverworts for the National Park Service at Great Falls Park in Virginia and at Piscataway and Fort Washington Parks in Maryland. Her presentation involved a demonstration on reproduction of mosses, a microscope viewing to observe moss uptake of water and valuable information about this great groundcover.

For more information on moss check out the Natural History Society of Maryland.

Woodmoor Garden Club Plants at Decatur House

September 18, 2011: Seven members of the Woodmoor Garden Club redesigned a flower bed at Decatur House on Lafayette Square in downtown Washington, DC. Woodmoor President Betsy Scroggs arranged this project with Butch Winters, a Woodmoor neighbor and Facilities Manager for Decatur House. Two focal bushes, a fall-blooming Camelia and a Pieris japonica 'Variegata', were planted along with 55 hostas of different varieties, sensitive fern and Christmas fern, Chrysogonum virginianum, and spring-flowering bulbs (scilla, hyacinth and crocus).

--Danielle Brabazon

Rain Gardens and Conservation Garden at Fall Meeting

September 13, 2011: Kit Gage of National Capital Region Watershed Stewards Academy gave an excellent presentation on the use of rain gardens and conservation gardening as a solution to stormwater runoff at District I's annual fall meeting.

Then Scott Aker from the National Arboretum gave an overview of the five rain gardens that the arboretum will install to handle stormwater runoff from the parking lot at its headquarters. Each rain garden will have its own kind of plants and signage to educate the public about rain gardens and the variety of plants for sun or shade or other situations.

These rain gardens are the president's project by current National Capital Area Garden Clubs president Vickie Godwin.

THE GARDEN POST Fall 2011

Garden Post Fall 2011