Gardening in the Northern Neck Seminar Survival! New Gardening Realities • April 2, 2011 S


urvival! With last summer’s record breaking heat, you may have a long list of plants that did not survive. If you’re wondering which plants


will endure the Northern Neck’s extreme gardening conditions, the 2011 Gardening in the Northern Neck Seminar will offer a fresh point of view for your garden and plant choices. Speakers for this year’s seminar include Dr. Douglas Tallamy, Peggy Singlemann and Dr. Laurie Fox. Dr. Tallamy, recommends that we think before we


plant…think about the type of plants we choose and suggests that we strongly consider the life those plants sustain. Author of Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in our Backyard, Dr. Tallamy offers an engaging account of the unbreakable link between plants and wildlife. He contends that the excessive use of nonnative plants deprives beneficial insects of essential food, since local insects don’t, or won’t, eat alien plants. If continued, he says, this trend will lead to the extinction of wildlife as we know it today. As Chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife at the University of Delaware, Tallamy has data to support his claim. Given the importance of our plant choices, what should they be? According to Peggy Singlemann, Director of Horticulture at Maymont


Dr. Douglas Tallamy


Gardens in Richmond, native plants add pizzazz to your garden, plus birds, butterflies and many beneficial insects love them. Another huge benefit is that native plants can take the heat and require less water and fertilizer. Adhering to the old adage that a picture is worth a


thousand words; Dr. Laurie Fox, Horticulture Associate at the Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Hampton Roads, will share what other local gardeners who have incorporated natives know and what you can do in your own garden to meet the challenges of extreme gardening conditions.


The seminar will be held April 2, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the


Church of the Nazarene in White Stone, Virginia. The seminar offers an opportunity to visit an impressive group of local and regional vendors, buy books and discover survival strategies from Northern Neck Master Gardeners. To register for the seminar, call the Northumberland Cooperative Extension Office at (804) 580-5694. Virginia Master Gardeners are horticultural educators,


administered by local Virginia Cooperative Extension agents. Virginia Cooperative Extension is an agency of Virginia Tech and Virginia State University.


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