Spring Celebration

8210 Murphy Road,Fulton MD 20759

17 April, 2022

Description

Celebrate the coming of spring by visiting the earliest native bloomers and learning some common wild edible plants emerging right now This special tour of Dr. Jim Duke's famous medicinal herb garden, The Green Farmacy Garden, will feature the earliest beauty and bounty of our local ecosystems. Depending on their individual schedules, we'll expect to see several of these native woodland plants emerging/ blooming, including early spring ephemerals that will retreat again for the rest of the year shortly after their show: Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides)Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia)Golden Ragwort (Packera aurea)Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis)Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)PawPaw (Asimina triloba)Round-Lobed Hepatica (Hepatica americana)Rue Anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides)Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica)Toad Trillium (Trillium sessile)Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum)Twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla)Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)Wood Poppy (Stylophlorum diphyllum)You'll also meet (and nibble) some of these common wild edible plants, and learn about the habitats where you're likely to encounter them: Beech (Fagus grandiolia)Grape (Vitis vulpina)Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris)Redbud (Cercis canadensis)Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum spp.)Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana)Daylily (Hemerocallis fulva)Giant Butterbur (Petasites japonicus)Japanese Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum)Magnolia (Magnolia lilliflora)Please dress appropriately for the weather and the possibility of insects! Five reduced-price scholarship tickets are available for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color), until maximum attendance is reached. Email [email protected] to claim one! Potted seedlings and divisions are available for donation at all our public events, as well as seeds and printed or recorded publications from Jim and Peggy Duke and others.