This Saturday, October 22, between 10am and 1pm the Sherwood Neighborhood Volunteers invite you to join them for the fall clean up at Sherwood Recreation Center (10 & G, NE). Bring gloves, if you have them, and pitch in for a little mulching, weeding, and planting hundreds of spring bulbs (courtesy of the Capitol Hill [...]
Entries Tagged as 'gardening'
Exercise Your Green Thumb, Satisfy Your Curiousity
October 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill North
Tags: DPR·gardening·Sherwood·Sherwood Neighborhood Volunteers·volunteering·volunteers
Native Plant Education: Let’s Talk Perennials
September 30th, 2011 · No Comments · DC
Matthew Roberts is the plant guru at Ginkgo Gardens, and an all-around great guy who can answer most of your gardening conundrums. _____________________ People tend to get confused as to the difference between annuals and perennials since they can both be about the same size and they both, hopefully, have noticeable flowers; hence why we [...]
Tags: beauty·gardening·Native Plant Education·natives·perennials·plants
Deadline to Request Bulbs This Week
September 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
For the seventh year, the Capitol Hill Garden Club is giving away free spring-flowering bulbs for use in public spaces on Capitol Hill. The area included in the giveaway is the geographic jurisdictions of ANC 6A, ANC 6B, and ANC 6C. (Roughly, 6th NW to RFK, NY Ave/Fl Ave to 395 – if you think [...]
Native Plant Education: Good Things Come in Trees
June 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill, DC
Here is another great post by Matthew Roberts of Ginkgo Gardens on native plants. Even the blackest thumbs will appreciate gaining knowledge and appreciation for our local plant heroes. –MHC My tenth grade math teacher used to always put an extra credit question on the final exam: Q. What did the acorn say when he [...]
Tags: gardening·native plants·trees
Get Your Hands Dirty Tomorrow at Sherwood
May 20th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Capitol Hill
This spring, Sherwood Rec Center at 10 & G, NE has been getting some gardening TLC. The Sherwood Neighborhood Volunteers recently planted a slew of trees donated by Casey Trees to help beautify the grounds. This weekend they’ll continue the job with some shrubs and other miscellanea. If you have some free time on [...]
Garden Answers with Elizabeth from Frager’s
May 4th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill, DC
Here is another great installment of Elizabeth’s gardening column. Have a question for Elizabeth? Send it to questionforelizabeth@gmail.com! –MHC It is hard not to stare in awe at the world around us when year after year our environment transforms from a brown, apparently lifeless, terrain into a lavish display of colors and textures. And every [...]
Reader Poll: Tree Boxes
April 21st, 2011 · 3 Comments · Capitol Hill
April showers bring May flowers, or so we learned in nursery school. What I’ve learned since having my own yard to tend to is that April showers bring a massive invasion of weeds that can grow as tall as me in the blink of an eye. And in front of each of our houses, at [...]
Tags: gardening·Reader Poll
Native Plant Education
April 20th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Capitol Hill
Please welcome Matthew Roberts of Ginkgo Gardens. Throughout the course of the seasons, he will be educating us on different native plants that can be incorporated into a Hill garden’s scheme. –MHC ____ Have you seen all those small dark grey-barked trees with the shocking fuchsia-purple flowers up and down their branches all over town [...]
Tags: gardening
Welcome Elizabeth From Frager’s!
March 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill, DC
With cherry blossoms in full bloom and daffodils lining the streets, we are reminded that it is once again spring. The fact that these harbingers of life are being dusted in snow reminds us that it is spring in Washington, DC. And with spring comes the human instinct to connect with the earth, to go [...]
Tags: Ask Elizabeth·gardening
13th Street Garden – Construction Begins!
September 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Hill South
Since moving to The Hill in June 2009, I’ve wondered what — if anything — would eventually be built at the corner of 13th and C Streets SE. Sure, it had a sign promising a “community park and garden,” but there weren’t any specifics. The garden was simply promised at some “future” date. The site [...]
