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- 2025 Annual Native Plant Sale, May 3, at the Community Building, 401 N. Boundary St., Williamsburg; click on this link if you want to volunteer, donate native plants or are looking for certain plants. Help us spread the word; send this flyer to your friends if they might be interested or take it to your next gathering.
- Wildflower of the Year 2025 – Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum). Read more about it here. Purchase a shirt with the winning design, celebrating the mayapple.
- Nature Camp Scholarship recipients have been selected. Read more about them here.
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By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Native Plant Society Did you know we have a wonderful native Wild Strawberry, also known as Scarlet or Virginia Strawberry? It is an adaptable low, herbaceous perennial that spreads by runners to form handsome, ground-covering semi-evergreen colonies. This diminutive strawberry rarely grows above 6” high but can spread indefinitely as…...
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April 18, 2025
Coming soon: VNPS offers Mayapple artwork on T-Shirts and other apparel. Mayapples are perennial herbaceous plants with thick fibrous roots that arise from a creeping rhizome. Each year the rhizome elongates about 6 to 20 cm in length, terminating in a bud for the subsequent year’s leafy stem and one or more buds for continuation…...
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February 8, 2025
By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Native Plant Society Red Maples, also called Swamp or Scarlet Maples, are known for their brilliant fall color. Now they may seem to be a surprising choice for the February Plant of the Month, but they are a true harbinger of spring, blooming in late winter often as early as…...
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February 5, 2025
By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Native Plant Society Inkberry or Gallberry is a great choice for the December Plant of the Month. This handsome broadleaf evergreen shrub typically grows slowly to about 5 – 8’ high and wide and has plenty of winter interest with its small narrowly ovate to lance-like dark green leaves that…...
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December 26, 2024
By Betsy Washington Northern Neck Chapter, Virginia Native Plant Society As signs of spring fill the air, I find myself eagerly anticipating the vibrant magenta pink blooms of one of our most beautiful flowering trees, the Eastern Redbud, Cercis canadensis. This small tree is a common sight along roadsides, woodland edges, and old fields…...
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March 18, 2021
By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Chapter The Common Hackberry is one of our most adaptable native shade trees and is also among the best trees to plant for wildlife. The trunk of hackberries has smooth…...
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February 21, 2021
By Betsy Washington Northern Neck Chapter, VNPS American Beeches are one of our most magnificent native trees, beautiful in every season, especially winter. They are also one of the most easily recognized of our eastern deciduous trees, with their silvery gray bark that appears cast…...
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February 21, 2021
By Betsy Washington Northern Neck Chapter, Virginia Native Plant Society As the winter solstice approaches, I am already anticipating the blooms of our earliest spring wildflower, Skunk Cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus. The buds of this winter blooming wildflower begin to appear in our…...
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December 30, 2020