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Resources

 

National Garden Clubs, Inc
The American Rose Society
The American Daffodil Society
The American Horticulture Society
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta
National Gardening Association
Botanical Society of America
Farmer’s Almanac
P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home  
Garden Web  

 

State

Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc.
(Check out the VFGC new on-line Gifts & Garden Shop featuring books, ornaments, floral supplies)
Virginia Gardener
Historic Garden Week
Virginia Gardening
Virginia Master Gardener Association
Virginia Native Plant Society
The Butterfly Society of Virginia
Virginia Cooperative Extension Services
Gardening In Virginia
Andre Viette In the Garden Radio
Nature Camp

 

Local

Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens
Henrico County Extension Office
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Flowers
Maymont
Maymont Flower and Garden Show
Central Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association
UR Landscape Design Program

 

CONSERVATION
National Parks Convervation Association
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Save The Bay
Piedmont Environmental Council
National Wildlife Federation
The Nature Conservancy
Sierra Club
National Audobon Society
Virginia League of Conservation Voters
The Organic Pages

Poisonous Plants

Poisonous Plants – Play it safe and do not nibble!  Parts of the following plants are poisonous and some even fatal when tasted:

Azalea
Autumn Crocus
Bleeding Heart
Buttercup
Caladium
Daffodils
Delphinium
Dieffenbachia
Foxglove
Hens and Chickens
Jimson Weed (Thorn Apple, Stinkweed)
Lantana
Lily of the Valley
Lupine
May Apple
Moonseed
Mountain Laurel
Oleander
Philodendron
Poinsettia
Poison Hemlock (Fool’s or False Parsley)
Privet
Rhododendron
Wild Mushrooms (Trust only a field-experienced mycologist to identify)
Water Hemlock
Yew

 

Bird Food – The following list of annuals and perennial flowers as well as trees, shrubs and vines will attract wild birds to gardens: 

 Annuals and Perennials
Sunflowers
Cosmos
Columbine
Larkspur
Lilies
Petunias
Phlox
Zinnias
Scarlet Sage

 

Trees, Shrubs and Vines
Dogwood
Flowering Crabapple
Paul’s Scarlet Hawthorne
Hollies
Barberry
Pyracantha
Mahonia
Bittersweet

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