Conserving Wild Flowers and Wild Places
 
 

Conserving Wild Flowers and Wild Places

Northern Neck Chapter of The Virginia Native Plant Society

 
 

Photo by Nick Ferriter

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Events

Events
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Nov 21
November Program

Program by NN VNPS Vice President Kevin Howe (and State VNPS Vice President) on fantastic fungi and their floral partners, followed by a field trip to learn about fungi and their partners. Join us for a brown bag lunch at noon before the program and field trip. Location and more details coming.

Articles

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Betsy Washington
Our Annual Fall Plant Sale at Good Luck Cellars was an incredible success!
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We enjoyed a wonderful venue, perfect weather and sold more plants and earned more than ever before over the three-day sale! Our Total Gross proceeds for the Sale totaled a stunning $11,223.07. We sold around 1400 beautiful native plants and nearly sold out by the end of Saturday.

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Thank you
Betsy Washington
Thank you
Betsy Washington

We want to thank all of our loyal members, new members and the general public who crowded into our Native Plant Sale. You far exceeded our expectations today with enthusiasm and zeal for native plants. Although we started with nearly 1400 plants (more than ever) we have nearly sold out. We do have a very few plants left. We will be at Good Luck tomorrow at 1pm to sell the few remaining plants and handout Guides and literature.

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Don't miss our Annual Fall Native Plant Sale this coming weekend at Good Luck Cellars!
Betsy Washington
Don't miss our Annual Fall Native Plant Sale this coming weekend at Good Luck Cellars!
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Not a member? Do we have a deal for you? Come join our Chapter on Friday or any time this weekend and take home a free American Beautyberry shrub for your own garden until they run out!

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NNVNPS 2024 Native Plant Sale List
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June-July 2024 What’s Blooming Around the Neck in the Next Few Weeks
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May 2024 What’s Blooming Around the Neck in the Next Few Weeks
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Happy Earth Day, 2024! Celebrate by Planting a NN Native Plant!
Betsy Washington

Plant an Oak for Earth Day... “Oaks are the quintessential wildlife plants: no other genus supports as many species of Lepidoptera thus providing more types of bird food, than the mighty oak... The value of oaks for supporting both vertebrate and invertebrate wildlife cannot be overstated.”

Doug Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home -How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens.”

What can you do to promote Biodiversity on your own property? …

From the April 2024 Newsletter

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VNPS Plant of the Year, White Turtlehead, Chelone glabra
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The 2024 VNPS Plant of the Year is the beautiful White Turtlehead, Chelone glabra. This fall blooming wildflower graces wet areas around the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula. Read more about this beautiful plant at Wildflower of the Year 2024 White Turtlehead (Chelone glabra) -Virginia Native Plant Society (vnps.org).

You can order the new VNPS 2024 White Turtlehead Tee shirts at: https://www.bonfire.com/store/vnps/

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Scholarship Available from NNVNPS
Tedd Munns
Scholarship Available from NNVNPS
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The purpose of this scholarship is to recognize an outstanding student graduating from a High School, either public or private in the four Northern Neck Counties: Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond Co., and Westmoreland. The graduating senior must exhibit a desire to continue studies in a recognized College, University or Community College with a focus on the environment, conservation, botany or any discipline that is geared toward bettering our Commonwealth with an emphasis on flora of the Northern Neck.

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NEW YEAR’S DAY WALK IN THE WOODS
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HICKORY HOLLOW NATURAL AREA PRESERVE

LANCASTER, VA

JANUARY 1, 2024, AT 2 PM

New Year’s Day is the perfect day, to get outside for a stroll and start the New Year off naturally and focused on our native flora and fauna. A number of years ago the Northern Neck (NN) Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society began a New Year’s Day Walk at Hickory Hollow Natural Area Preserve in Lancaster County.

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Plant of the Month

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Plant of the Month November 2024: Winged Sumac

Winged Sumac is a beautiful large deciduous shrub that shines throughout the year but is especially vibrant when it ignites into a fiery crescendo in fall. Typically growing from 7 – 15’ tall, this sumac often spreads into large colonies by root suckers.

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Plant of the Month October 2024: Sourwood

The October Plant of the Month, Sourwood or Lily-of-the-Valley Tree, is spectacular in every season but especially so each fall as the foliage ignites into brilliant crimson or reddish-purple. Sourwood is one of our earliest, most vivid, and most reliable fall coloring trees, especially in the South.

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Plant of the Month September 2024: Sweet Goldenrod

Sweet or Anise-scented Goldenrod is one of the earliest fall blooming Goldenrods to grace our open areas including open woods, fields, powerline cuts and roadsides each fall.

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Plant of the Month August 2024: Common Cut-leaf Coneflower

Common Cut-leaf Coneflower is a tall statuesque late summer-fall bloomer found throughout Virginia and stands above most perennials at heights 5 to 9 feet. Also known as Green-headed, Tall Coneflower, or Wild Golden Glow, it is widely distributed in open floodplain forests, alluvial swamps, seepage swamps, wet meadows, and along streams and rivers and even roadsides.

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Plant of the Month July 2024: Common Milkweed

The July Plant of the Month, Common Milkweed, is a lovely, robust, herbaceous perennial festooned with showy clusters of flowers from June to August. A member of the Milkweed genus, Asclepias, it often gets a bad rap for its rhizomatous roots that can spread aggressively; however, this species offers many attractive benefits.

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Plant of the Month June 2024: Southeastern Prickly-pear Cactus

Southeastern Prickly-pear Cactus, is certainly eye-catching when in bloom in late May and June and curious and just plain cool at any time of year. This native evergreen is technically a “shrub” although it grows only 6 – 12” high.

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Plant of the Month May 2024: Sundial Lupine

Every spring I look forward to seeing the lovely lavender-blue spires of Sundial Lupine rising above distinctive pinwheel foliage along sandy roadsides and open woods. Also known as Wild Lupine, this member of the Legume Family is found throughout the Eastern and Central United States.

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Plant of the Month April 2024: Lyre-leaf Sage

A few weeks ago, driving north from Florida, we passed mile after mile of waves of lavender-blue flowers gracing the highway shoulders in South Carolina.  We were thrilled to see Lyre-leaf Sage, Salvia lyrata, creating a gorgeous spectacle along an otherwise barren straight stretch of road.

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Plant of the Month March 2024: Trailing Arbutus

Trailing Arbutus is one of our earliest blooming wildflowers and has been considered a “herald of spring” with its extremely fragrant clusters of pink to white flowers blooming from late February to April in our area.

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Plant of the Month February 2024: Rattlesnake Plantain

One of my favorite sights while walking in winter woodlands are the beautiful evergreen leaves of Downy Rattlesnake Plantain, Goodyera pubescens. This eye-catching beauty is one of our most common woodland orchids and instantly recognizable by its exquisitely etched leaves with an intricate network of fine white veins on either side of a broader white midvein.

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Featured

Presentation, Resources and Handouts for native plants and their Pollinators by Betsy Washington

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resources from the Plant Sale by Betsy Washington

Brochures and Lists with More Information

Slideshow photos and text
by Betsy Washington

 

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