Congratulations are in order for that hotbed of gardening, Takoma Park, Maryland, for winning certification as a Wildlife Habitat Community – the first in Maryland! Joining just 50 other communities in the U.S. (so far). The effort, started back in…
Here’s an update on the Vermont Avenue Gardens in downtown D.C., which is produced and maintained by a very civic-minded group that includes local businesses and politicians and a bunch of neighbors. One of those neighbors is Behnkes own Jeffrey…
The Potomac Valley Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society – NARGS for short – started in 1965 with a handful of members who were generous in sharing both plants and know-how. Membership now includes gardeners from neophytes to…
Our next garden club to feature and heap praise on is one that’s had a long association with Behnkes – the Beltsville Garden Club. That’s actually in evidence right on their website, which tells us that several of the club’s…
Here’s a worthy cause we’re supporting – it’s called Agricultural Literacy and it means teaching kids about where food comes from and how it grows. They’re urging Marylanders to donate to school media centers the wonderful (and favorably reviewed) new…
Next up in our series of garden club and plant society features is the venerable and popular-as-ever Takoma Horticultural Club! History The Takoma Horticultural Club is believed to be (and no one has stepped forward to challenge this, yet) the…
Our recent Open House in Beltsville was a great fun for us and seemed to be for the large crowd of attendees, too. So thanks to everyone who participated – all the vendors and terrific volunteers, like the two Master…
One of the oldest and best loved garden blogs in the D.C. area is written by an old friend of Behnkes – Chris Upton, currently the horticulturist for the Asia Collection at the National Arboretum. He named it 1003 Gardens…
This is the first of many articles here on the blog featuring garden clubs, plant societies and Master Gardener groups in the Metro area – all groups we’re inviting to our Garden Day to Benefit the Friends of Brookside Gardens…
We hope you took our suggestion and attended the free Rooting DC event for DC-Area Urban Gardeners last weekend because now in its fourth year, it was better than ever. We were inspired to see hundreds of city- and suburb-dwellers…