Forest Hills Connection || News and Life in Our DC Neighborhood
Covering Forest Hills, Van Ness, North Cleveland Park and Wakefield
by Marjorie Rachlin Wildflower or weed? It can be in the eye of the beholder. Take a look at some of the interesting summer wildflowers you can see on roadsides and meadows nearby. Rock Creek Park and the Broad Branch stream restoration are good places to start. Swamp milkweed In early August this lovely native […]
by Kate Yonkers Last summer and early fall gave us a taste of the heavy, enduring rain which will become more commonplace as the climate warms. We have lost many large trees in the neighborhood, over 30 alone in 2018 according to the DC Urban Forestry division. Oversaturation and high winds are surely to blame, […]
Rock Creek Park is an oasis of nature in the middle of our city, but nature in a city needs a lot of human help to thrive. Rock Creek Conservancy has identified five “mini-oases” where it is focusing its restoration efforts over the next two years. By 2020, it aims to show “what a fully […]
by Katrina Weinig Consider this: Approximately 42% of threatened or endangered birds, animals or plants in the U.S. today are at risk because non-native species have invaded their habitat. Thus, any environmental restoration project that is to be successful in the long term must begin with the removal and control of invasive species. One important […]
by Carol F. Stoel Forest Hills gardens are extensive and rich with flowering plants and trees that attract bees, birds and butterflies. Shouldn’t that be enough to support pollinators for the new rooftop vegetable garden atop UDC’s Building 44? UDC’s experts didn’t think so. A pollinator garden was essential to enhance garden productivity, they said. Sandy Farber, […]
by Mary Farrah Extension agent, UDC CAUSES Urban Gardening & Forestry Outreach When the empires of yore explored new lands and relentlessly expanded their territories, it was all the rage to import the strange and beautiful flora of these conquests into the finest gardens of Europe. This long-standing tradition of treasuring only the most exotic […]
