Piedmont Master Gardeners Spring Lecture Series
C. Colston Burrell: Beauty, Integrity and Resilience—Can a Garden Have Everything?
Thursday, MARCH 3 | 7:00 pm | Zoom | Admission: $10 | Register online
Do our gardening practices harm the environment? Can we change them to meet our aesthetic goals while supporting the insects and birds we love? Can we create healthy habitats with a mixture of native and exotic plants?
Cole Burrell, an acclaimed garden designer, lecturer, author, and photographer, helps gardeners address such questions as they create landscapes that meld beauty with ecosystem form and function.
Renée Gokey & Christine Price-Abelow: The Three Sisters — Indigenous Origins and Best Growing Practices
Thursday, MARCH 10 | 7:00 pm | Zoom | Admission: $10 | Register online
Renée Gokey and Christine Price-Abelow of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) will explore the history of “The Three Sisters” (beans, corn, and squash teach us how best to grow this powerhouse combination and learn from indigenous gardening practices.
Jayesh Samtani: Home Garden Berries—Selection, Cultivation, and Growing Alongside Ornamental Plants
Thursday, MARCH 24 @ 7:00 pm | Zoom | Admission: $10 | Register online
Jayesh Samtani of Virginia Tech’s School of Plant and Environmental Sciences will provide an overview of berry production in the home garden and will cover such crops as strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, and figs. He will also offer ways to integrate these attractive plants with ornamentals.
Barbara Ryan: The New Sustainable Garden—Native Plant Garden Designs for Your Home
Thursday, MARCH 31 @ 7:00 pm | Zoom | Admission: $10 | Register online
Barbara Ryan is the founder and owner of Chain Bridge Native Landscapes LLC in McLean. She holds a Master’s Degree in Sustainable Landscape Design from The George Washington University and is a certified Virginia Horticulturist (VNLA), Level 2 Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional (CBLP), and Fairfax Master Naturalist. Ryan will discuss the roles that native plant communities and layering play in designing effective native gardens that improve biodiversity and sustainability while offering natural beauty throughout the year.
Piedmont Master Gardeners Annual Plant Sale
Saturday, MAY 7 | 10:00 am – 2:00 pm |Albemarle Square
Featuring native plants, bulbs and tubers, herbs, ground covers, pollinators, perennials, drought-tolerant plants, houseplants, annuals, veggies, sun and shade plants, deer resistant plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, Green Elephant sale and more! Bring your problem plants, insects or gardening questions for advice from our experts: VCE Help Desk and Information tables will be onsite. Pick up a soil test kit. Bring your surplus plastic garden pots to be recycled. Tool sharpening available.
Wildlife Corridors: How Native Trees & Plants Can Restore Biodiversity
Monday, MARCH 7 | 7:00 pm | Zoom | Free
presented by the Virginia Beach Master Gardeners
Gardening in the Valley Symposium
Saturday, MARCH 12 | 8:00 am – 4:00 pm | Falmouth, Virginia | Admission: $65
presented by the Northern Shenandoah Valley Master Gardener Association
Made for the Shade
Saturday, APRIL 2 | 8:00 am – 4:00 pm | Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia | Admission: $65
10th Annual Living in the Garden Symposium presented by the Central Rappahannock Area Master Gardeners
