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So Many Reasons to Plant Native Shrubs

So Many Reasons to Plant Native Shrubs

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Creating a Wildlife Habitat Lab for Kids

Creating a Wildlife Habitat Lab for Kids

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Volume 27 Issue 1, Winter  2022 by Anne Owen, Audubon at Home Program Coordinator Emeritus Marykirk Cunningham tending the new...

Got Seeds? Get Native Plants by Winter Sowing

Got Seeds? Get Native Plants by Winter Sowing

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Volume 27 Issue 1, Winter  2022 by BJ Lecrone, Office Management/Online Outreach The dried flowers of a native aster plant...

Virginia Wildflowers of the Year

Virginia Wildflowers of the Year

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Forget the winter cold — sit back and watch Ami Mason show us a beautiful display of wildflowers throughout the...

Celebrate Fall Color

Celebrate Fall Color

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As Northern Virginia continues to celebrate trees to mark the start of the five year regional native tree campaign, autumn...

Celebrating Native Trees

Celebrating Native Trees

Aug 31, 2021

Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy is proud to announce the launch of Plant NOVA Trees, a five year, collaborative effort to encourage...

Spring Ephemeral Wildflowers of Loudoun County

Spring Ephemeral Wildflowers of Loudoun County

Apr 8, 2021

Ami Mason, an Audubon at Home Ambassador, Virginia Master Naturalist and Resident Gardener at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve, shares photographs...

Native Plant Resources

Native Plant Resources

Dec 30, 2020

In recent years there has been an explosion of information about native plants, so much so that it can be...

Discovering Wildlife at JK Black Oak Wildlife Sanctuary

Discovering Wildlife at JK Black Oak Wildlife Sanctuary

Nov 25, 2020

Volume 25 Issue 4, Fall 2020 by Gerco Hoogeweg, JK Black Oak Wildlife Sanctuary Committee Chair JK Black Oak Wildlife...

Weeds and Weediness: A Look at the Origins of the Plants We Love to Hate

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Volume 25 Issue 3, Summer 2020 by Nan McCarry What is a weed? Many of us may have heard that...

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