Native Ground Covers with Margaret Chatham [via Zoom]
Date/Time
Thursday, February 12, 2026
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Contact
potowmack@vnps.org
Categories
Join Margaret Chatham to explore some of the options for native ground covers to help shade the roots of your favorite native shrubs and trees and make a soft landing for the caterpillars we hope they’re hosting.
Watch “Native Ground Covers” on Vimeo.
Caterpillar on Bushy Aster (Symphyotrichum dumosum) at Daingerfield Island, City of Alexandria, Virginia. Photo by R.H. Simmons.
Margaret Chatham is a Fraser Preserve Volunteer Visitation Committee Member who removes invasive barberry shrubs in winter and wavyleaf grass in summer and knows the preserve intimately. She is also editor of the VNPS Potowmack News newsletter, a volunteer at the VNPS propagation beds at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, and an Arlington Regional Master Naturalist.