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- 2025 Annual Native Plant Sale - thank you to all volunteers, members and customers who made it a success! Enjoy your gardens and the outdoors throughout summer and come back here in the fall to find out more about plans for the next year's sale.
- 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 American Elderberry is a common, deciduous shrub that lights up our landscape from mid-May through June with huge and profuse clusters of white flowers that literally form a lacy veil over the shrub. Each flower is only about ¼” across but is held in large, flat-topped or…...
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June 13, 2025
By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Native Plant Society As May comes into bloom, I always look forward to the flowers on my False Indigo-bush that graces my upper shoreline. I inherited this lovely deciduous shrub when I bought this property and count myself lucky to have this amazing shrub that is beautiful yet tolerates dry,…...
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May 15, 2025
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 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