Piedmont Master Gardeners

Garden Basics: Spring Cleanup in the Perennial Garden (CLASS IS FULL)
2023-03-25 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Waiting until spring to clean up your perennial garden allows plants to overwinter for structural interest, protection for insects, and food sources for birds. Join us for an outdoor Garden Basics class at PMG’s demonstration garden at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital. (Look for the welcome table at the Outpatient Care Center parking area, 595 Martha Jefferson Drive.) You will learn:
• The native plants in the demonstration garden
• The importance of cleanup in the spring rather than the fall
• How to divide plants in the spring.
Participants will have a hands-on activity and will take home a native plant for their own gardens.
Space is limited. See below to register and reserve a place in the class. Garden Basics is a partnership with the Bread and Roses ministry at Trinity Episcopal Church.

Virginia Festival of the Book: Poet, Essayist and Gardener Ross Gay
2023-03-25 14:00 - 15:00
The Piedmont Master Gardeners are co-sponsoring an appearance by poet, essayist and passionate gardener Ross Gay at this year’s Virginia Festival of the Book. The Same Page Community Read event is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, March 25, at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. We are partnering with the Friends of JMRL, which selected his essay collection The Book of Delights (a New York Times best-seller) for the 2023 Same Page Community Read program. He will also read from his latest book of essays, Inciting Joy. As critics observe, this award-winning writer “celebrates the beauty of the natural world–his garden, the flowers peeking out of the sidewalk, the hypnotic movements of a praying mantis.”

Spring Lecture Series—Kim Eierman, “Designing a Pollinator Victory Garden for a Changing Climate”
2023-03-16 19:00 - 20:15 | https://www.piedmontmastergardeners.org/event/spring-lecture-series-kim-eierman-designing-a-pollinator-victory-garden-for-a-changing-climate/
Kim Eierman, an ecological landscape designer specializing in native plants, will cover the dramatic decline of pollinators due to factors that include climate change and will offer simple strategies gardeners can use to support bees and an array of other pollinator species. Based in Westchester County, New York, Eierman is author of The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening. She teaches at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, among other places.

Spring Lecture Series—Kim Eierman, “Designing a Pollinator Victory Garden for a Changing Climate”
2023-03-16 19:00 - 20:15 | https://www.piedmontmastergardeners.org/event/spring-lecture-series-kim-eierman-designing-a-pollinator-victory-garden-for-a-changing-climate-2/

Spring Lecture Series—Bob Schamerhorn, “Attracting Birds and Other Wildlife to Your Garden with Easy-to-Create Water Features”
2023-03-09 19:00 - 20:15 | https://www.piedmontmastergardeners.org/event/spring-lecture-series-bob-schamerhorn-attracting-birds-and-other-wildlife-to-your-garden-with-easy-to-create-water-features/
Bob Schamerhorn’s online multimedia presentation will demonstrate water’s powerful attraction to birds and other wildlife in every season and will suggest ways to enhance our enjoyment of nature by bringing water into our backyards. Based in Richmond, Schamerhorn is an award-winning nature photographer and a lifelong bird and nature enthusiast. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions and publications, including Virginia Wildlife and Audubon, the National Audubon Society’s magazine.

Spring Lecture Series—Bob Schamerhorn, “Attracting Birds and Other Wildlife to Your Garden with Easy-to-Create Water Features”
2023-03-09 19:00 - 20:15 | https://www.piedmontmastergardeners.org/event/spring-lecture-series-bob-schamerhorn-attracting-birds-and-other-wildlife-to-your-garden-with-easy-to-create-water-features-2/

Spring Lecture Series—Michael Carter Jr., "Africulture and Unique Organic Vegetables You’ll Want in Your Home Garden"
2023-03-02 19:00 - 20:15 | https://www.piedmontmastergardeners.org/event/spring-lecture-series-michael-carter-jr-africulture-and-unique-organic-vegetables-youll-want-in-your-home-garden/
In this online presentation, Michael Carter Jr. will highlight the many contributions the African continent and people of African descent have made to farming and food traditions in the United States. He will also introduce some of the unique plants he grows organically at his family’s certified Virginia Century Farm in Orange County. Carter is the fifth generation of his family to farm this property and is managing director of Carter Farms and Africulture, a nonprofit focused on educating the public about the principles, practices, plants, and people of African descent that have contributed to U.S. agriculture.

Spring Lecture Series—Michael Carter Jr., "Africulture and Unique Organic Vegetables You’ll Want in Your Home Garden"
2023-03-02 19:00 - 20:15 | https://www.piedmontmastergardeners.org/event/spring-lecture-series-michael-carter-jr-africulture-and-unique-organic-vegetables-youll-want-in-your-home-garden-2/

Garden Basics: Tools for Gardening Smarter, Not Harder
2023-02-18 14:00 - 16:00
The Piedmont Master Gardeners will offer a primer on easy-to-find as well as odd, little-known, but handy tools for tending the yard and garden—from socks and gloves to clippers and tree-extraction tools. This free Garden Basics session will cover:
• caring for your tools;
• where to buy them; and
• how, when, and where to use them properly.
Space is limited. See below to register and reserve a place in the class. Garden Basics is a partnership with the Bread and Roses ministry at Trinity Episcopal Church.
