Harvest Festival and Rose Society events in Hagerstown area
Homeplace Everlastings hosts a Harvest Celebration from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday Sept 15 at Beaver Creek Road near Hagerstown with garden tours, herb tea, and language of flowers demonstrations. A seed lecture at Brookside Gardens Library in Wheaton is set for 10 a.m. Sept 14. Cumberland Valley Rose Society hosts a Colonial District meeting and rose show Sept 14–16 at Venice Inn in Hagerstown with entries Sept 15. information and entry cards available by mail or at the door. convention committee listed. call 733-0226 for details.
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Beaver Creek Road
U.S. Alt. 40
Hagerstown
Brookside Gardens
Glenallan Ave
Wheaton
Pam Stenger
Cumberland Valley Rose Society
American Rose Society
Venice Inn
James Stewart
Richmond St
Martinsburg
W.va
Helen Arnold
Raymond Ketrow
Charles Mundey Jr
Robert Rubeeck Jr
Mr. Stewart
Vardar Valley
Frederick Bird Club meeting features Old Growth Forest talk
Dan Boone of the Maryland Ornithological Society will address the Frederick Bird Club at 7 30 p.m. Thursday September 6 in Frederick High School music room. Topic is Old Growth Forest and Wildlife in Maryland. Public invited. information at 473 4168.
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Dan Boone
Frederick Bird Club
Maryland Ornithological Society
Frederick High School
Maryland
Landscape design course offered by Carroll County Extension
The Carroll County Extension Service will run a five week landscape design course from September 15 to October 13. Subjects include design concepts site analysis and plant selection with a practical home landscape plan project. Registration costs 40 dollars and is limited call 848-5013 or 875-2801 to enroll.
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Carroll County Extension Service
Carroll County Extension Office
Fern Workshop at Blandy with Celia Butt
Fern workshop led by Celia Butt covers classification propagation and landscape uses at the State Arboretum of Virginia Blandy on Thursday Sept 27 with two sessions from 9 30 to 11 20 a m and 1 30 to 3 30 p m Registration costs 8 for members 10 for non members and limit is 15 participants Contact (703) 837 1758 for details or registration The arboretum sits on U S 50 about 10 miles east of Winchester VA.
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Celia Butt
State Arboretum of Virginia
Blandy
U.S. 50
Winchester
Plants to Avoid in Gardens Across the Seasons
Garden writer Lindsay Bond Totten lists common plants she avoids and why, noting pests, winter damage, invasiveness, untidy habits, and maintenance drawbacks. She suggests better alternatives and stresses balancing aesthetic appeal with practical performance for year round success.
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Alberta
National Gardening Association guide for kids gardening benefits
The new National Gardening Association Guide To Kids Gardening offers over 70 projects and practical advice for starting and maintaining youth gardens. It highlights confidence, pride, and motivation as children see seeds grow and harvest bounty, with gardening potentially shaping lifelong hobbies or careers.
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National Gardening Association
Wiley
Asters: From Tradescant to Michaelmas Daisies Across Ages
The aster, native to many regions from Europe to Asia and North America, spans cultivars from pink to blue and heights from 3 inches to 6 feet. Its names trace to New England, New Belgium, and the Michaelmas feast, with mythic ties to Virgo and Venus and meanings of daintiness love and elegance in flowers.
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Europe
Himalayas
China
Japan
United States
Canada
Britain
John Tradescant
Tradescantii
New England
New Belgium
Linnaeus
New York
New Netherlands
Holland
Belgica
Michael
England
Kallos
Stephanus
Jupiter
Palace of Heaven
Milky Way
Earth
Astraea
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Lilypons Rd
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Totten Scripps Howard News Service
John Deere
Ali MU
E. Patrick St
Agja
Fred Archibald
Virgo
William Wordsworth
Lietration
Pamela Griffin
Che Frederick
Tinian
Vanguard
Briggs & Stratton
Cap Stine Road
Mt. Zion Rd
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