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Quiet Waters Park through volunteering, fundraising, and advocacy.
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Quiet Waters Park
is a facility of the
Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks.
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The team of Maryland Master Gardeners is developing a series of deer-resistant native plant gardens along the Wildwood Trail that will include sun, shade, and woodland settings. Informational signs will tell you the conditions necessary to support each type of plant so you can determine if you can use them in your own garden. The existing garden around the pond contains native and other plants and received BayWise certification last year. Yes, we enrich the soil in these gardens with the compost produced at the site.
Click here to see a map of the trail.
© Carol Proudfit
© Carol Proudfit
© Carol Proudfit
Parking is available in
the Blue Heron Center lot
After a cold and blustery winter, everyone is ready to welcome spring! The Master Gardeners once again are getting ready to spruce up the compost demonstration site for the season. But our real excitement is about the native plant gardens adjacent to the composting area! We’re anxiously waiting to see the perennial native plants emerge from the cold ground and once again show off their glorious colors from spring through the fall. Did they all survive the winter? Will our carefully chosen plants continue to be deer-resistant through this growing season?
Soon we’ll see ground covers such as wild ginger, partridge berry, and woodland stonecrop appear. Other spring blooms include round-lobed hepatica, blue phlox, Jacob’s ladder, and foam flowers. Along the woodland path you’ll find Jack-in-the-pulpits peeking up through winter covers, and May apples will begin to open their spring umbrellas. Many ferns grace the area as well. Later blooms bring a beautiful array of colors, including cardinal flowers, wild sweet William, Joe Pye weed, wild senna, and goldenrod.
This season Master Gardeners plan to complete the woodland path and put out many new plantings in the area. We invite you to walk by the Native Plant Gardens along the Wildwood Trail to enjoy the beauty of the flowers or stop by the garden around the pond at the entrance to the composting area. Each plant in the gardens will have a weatherproof sign with the common and botanical name, information about the mature size, bloom time and color of flowers, and soil and moisture requirements so you can decide if this is a plant you would like to have in your own garden at home.
Any time you see a Master Gardener working at the site, please stop and ask any questions you have about composting or gardening and we’ll do our best to answer.
Click here to view the Masters Gardeners at work in the park.
Now Available
A Comprehensive Chart of the Planting to be Found in the Park
Click here to view the chart.
Click here to download a Microsoft Word version of the chart.
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