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  • February 2025

  • Sat 15

    RESCHEDULED AT NEW TIME AND PLACE Garden Basics: Indoor Gardening—You Don’t Need a Green Thumb!

    February 15, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Learn how to beautify your surroundings with indoor plants. Our class will focus on • plant selection, • repotting, • containers, • environmental factors, and • ways to maximize the use of greenery in your home. We will set you on the path to long-term success as an indoor gardener. PLEASE NOTE: This rescheduled session… Read More »RESCHEDULED AT NEW TIME AND PLACE Garden Basics: Indoor Gardening—You Don’t Need a Green Thumb!

    Free
  • Sat 22

    Garden Basics: Tool Talk—The Right Tools for the Right Gardening Tasks

    February 22, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Trinity Episcopal Church 1118 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United States

    Choosing the best tool for your gardening chores will save time, energy, and your back. We will demonstrate the safe use of basic tools so that all your garden tasks go smoothly. Power tools will not be discussed in this program. Space is limited. Please register below to reserve your place in the class. Registration… Read More »Garden Basics: Tool Talk—The Right Tools for the Right Gardening Tasks

    Free
  • March 2025

  • Sat 8

    Outdoor Composting Workshop—Turn Your Garbage to Gold

    March 8, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Trinity Episcopal Church 1118 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United States

    Join us to learn how to compost your food waste, yard trimmings, paper, cardboard, and wood waste into nature’s preferred food. The outdoor workshop will be taught by Piedmont Master Gardeners and the Bread and Roses Garden Team at the Trinity Church Compost Demonstration Site, 1118 Preston Ave., Charlottesville. The workshop will move indoors if… Read More »Outdoor Composting Workshop—Turn Your Garbage to Gold

    Free
  • Sat 15

    Garden Basics: Pollinators for Four Seasons

    March 15, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Trinity Episcopal Church 1118 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United States

    Pollinators such as butterflies, bees, and birds are responsible for much of the food we eat. Unfortunately, their populations are declining because of habitat loss and dwindling food supplies. The good news is that you can support pollinators and enjoy them year-round by learning how to provide food and shelter in your garden space—whether your… Read More »Garden Basics: Pollinators for Four Seasons

    Free
  • Sun 30

    At James Monroe’s Highland: Prepping and Planning Your Vegetable Garden

    March 30, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Join the Piedmont Master Gardeners at James Monroe's Highland for a spring gardening workshop on “Prepping and Planning Your Vegetable Garden.” Participants will learn the basics of garden planning, including soil testing and seed starting, then apply these skills with a hands-on project in Highland’s exhibition garden. This event is free and open to all,… Read More »At James Monroe’s Highland: Prepping and Planning Your Vegetable Garden

    Free
  • April 2025

  • Tue 8

    Free Spring Lecture: ‘Horticultural Futurism,’ featuring Thomas Rainer, a leading voice in ecological landscape design

    April 8, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

    Landscape architect Thomas Rainer, a leading authority in ecological landscape design, will deliver PMG's 2025 Spring Lecture, "Horticultural Futurism: Designing a Plant-Centric Future." The 6:30 p.m. lecture will be preceded by a public open house beginning at 5:30 p.m. in The Center at Belvedere’s Rose and Pollinator Demonstration Gardens. As climate change and mass extinctions reshape… Read More »Free Spring Lecture: ‘Horticultural Futurism,’ featuring Thomas Rainer, a leading voice in ecological landscape design

  • Sat 26

    Garden Basics: Foodscaping—The Edible Landscape

    April 26, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    In this Garden Basics session, learn how you can turn your landscape into a sustainable, perennial, ecologically healthy space that provides food. We will focus on how to grow edible crops without ripping out flowers and shrubs to convert the beds into a vegetable garden. Ornamentals, fruits, vegetables, and herbs can co-exist and thrive in… Read More »Garden Basics: Foodscaping—The Edible Landscape

    Free
  • May 2025

  • Sat 3

    Spring Plant Sale

    May 3, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

    Our Spring Plant Sale will once again offer thousands of annuals, perennials, vegetables, fruit-bearing plants, trees, shrubs, herbs and houseplants, including a large assortment of native plants. In addition, shoppers can purchase gently used garden implements, yard décor, and other “Green Elephants.” The sale will also feature a Help Desk for answering gardening questions and… Read More »Spring Plant Sale

  • Sat 17

    Garden Basics: Invasive Species—Not All Plants Are Created Equal

    May 17, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Trinity Episcopal Church 1118 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United States

    All too often, unsuspecting homeowners come home from a local nursery with an invasive species. Sadly, invasives wreak havoc on our ecosystems, denying birds and other native fauna the nutrition necessary to sustain them. Come learn why a Butterfly Bush is comparable to giving an 18-year-old junk food before running a marathon. You will learn… Read More »Garden Basics: Invasive Species—Not All Plants Are Created Equal

    Free
  • Sun 18

    Plant Swap at James Monroe’s Highland

    May 18, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    James Monroe's Highland 2050 James Monroe Parkway, Charlottesville, VA, United States

    From 10 a.m. to noon Sunday, May 18, James Monroe’s Highland and the Piedmont Master Gardeners will host a plant swap at the historic estate. Swappers can exchange pest-free plants for a variety of other plants for summer gardens. Leftover seeds and non-native, non-invasive plants, including vegetables, also can be swapped. In addition, visitors are… Read More »Plant Swap at James Monroe’s Highland

  • June 2025

  • Tue 3

    How Your Garden and Others Can Help Address Food Insecurity

    June 3, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    The Center at Belvedere 540 Belvedere Boulevard, Charlottesville, VA, United States

    Aleen Carey of Cultivate Charlottesville Food insecurity and food access are serious problems for many people in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Community gardens—land cultivated by a group of people individually or collectively—can help. Join Aleen Carey (Executive Director, Cultivate Charlottesville) and leaders of Piedmont Master Gardeners community garden projects to learn about the scope of… Read More »How Your Garden and Others Can Help Address Food Insecurity

  • Sat 14

    “Turn Your Garbage to Gold,” an Outdoor Workshop on Composting

    June 14, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
    Trinity Episcopal Church 1118 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United States

    At 10 a.m. Saturday, June 14, the Piedmont Master Gardeners will present “Turn Your Garbage to Gold,” the next in a series of free outdoor workshops on composting. It will be held at the compost demonstration site in the Bread & Roses Gardens at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1118 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville. The workshop will showcase… Read More »“Turn Your Garbage to Gold,” an Outdoor Workshop on Composting

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