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My favorite garden in the neighborhood

Pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) is a tall, exotic-looking perennial in the sunflower family, whose hardy, white blossoms with yellow-button centers are prized for dried flower arrangements. The luminous, white flowerheads combine with the pale white blush in the plant's lanceolate, alternate leaves to create an otherworldly effect, particularly when the plants mass in clumps. Pearly everlasting was used as a medicinal herb by Native Americans to treat a variety of ailments, from cold sores to rheumatism. The plant grows along forest margins and in open meadows in full sun and dry, gravelly soil. The photos above were taken along Middle Valley Trail in the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

Jill Raggett

Evening in the dry garden

Grass carrying wasp on pearly everlasting - Anaphalis margaritacea

 Jill Raggett

The fun part about walking around in heavily disturbed environments post-development is seeing which native plant communities can hold their own against the invasive grasses and thistles. Here are a few nice ones among the sea of rye grass

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