PowerPoint Presentation from the 3/13/23 “Seed Saving” Lecture by Dee Walsh will is available HERE !
Click HERE for lecture outline/notes.
Slides From the 1/9/23 “Pruning Basics” Lecture by Jeff Kunkle are available HERE!
Suggestions & Messages:
3/23/23: Patti Booth recently recommended a blog article about “Dividing Perennials in Springtime”. You can find a copy of the article here!
9/15/22: Karen Dosier recently recommended a couple of plants, including “Hummelo“. She described it this way: “It’s totally different from the light colored fuzzy stachys we know as Lamb’s Ears. It still has purple spikes of flowers, but is a mounding perennial and is deer and rabbit resistant!” The other plant recommended was a coneflower called Mellow Yellows. It “mellows” to more cream as it matures. Both sound like welcome additions to any garden! – Dee Walsh
Service Providers/Nurseries/Garden Centers & Retailers
(In no particular order, with no particular endorsement –
additional suggestions welcome!! Just email them to deewalsh@embarqmail.com)
Chris Crawford Landscaping and Tree Maintenance
(205) 784-7157 or via Facebook (search “@chriscrawfordinc”)
Cole Moore – TopSide Brush Control (Tree Removal, Understory Clearing)
(540) 241-8657
Waynesboro Landscape and Garden Center
Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF) Tree Nurseries
Blue Ridge Farmer’s Co-op (Formerly Southern States)
Ivy Corner Gardens and Gift Shop
Fitzgerald’s Apple Orchard
728 Harper’s Creek Lane, Tyro, VA 22976 (Nelson Co.)
434-277-8248
Apple varieties include Red and Golden Delicious, Gala, Rome, Stayman, Granny Smith and York. Open Monday – Saturday during apple season. 8:00 AM – noon and 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Hummingbird Hill Natives (Nursery)
Fifth Season Gardening Company
Eltzroth & Thompson Greenhouses
Landscape Supply (recommended by Cooke Family/product “Deer Scram” is excellent deer repellent.)
High Country Gardens (Online Shop & Blog)
Fall-Blooming Perennials – List
Hottinger Greenhouses (Louisa)
Sharondale Mushroom Farm (Keswick)
Milmont Greenhouses (Waynesboro)
Organizations and Resource Links
Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards
Botanical Garden of the Piedmont
Piedmont Native Plants – Reference Book
Download (Free) // Hard Copy for Sale
Plant Virginia Natives (Many reference links available)
Common Native Trees of Virginia – VDOF Reference Manual
Virginia Natives – Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Buck Mountain Garden Club PO Box 683, Earlysville, VA 22936
Meets at 12:30 on the 2nd Monday of each month (Sept through June)
Deese Hall, Buck Mountain Episcopal Church – All Welcome!
https://www.thecharlottesvillegardenclub.com/
https://www.albemarlegardenclub.com/
https://therivannagardenclub.org/site/
PRISM (Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management)
https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/ – National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC)
https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/us/virginia – NISIC Virginia Invasives
Problem Species in Our Area:
https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/plants/oriental-bittersweet
https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/plants/japanese-stiltgrass
https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/plants/tree-heaven
https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/invertebrates/spotted-lanternfly
American Horticultural Society
List of Deer-Resistant Plants/Rutgers University
Stilt-Grass Management (August is Prime Time) / PRISM
Virginia Cooperative Extension (Virginia Tech)
Relationship Between Ailanthus (Tree of Heaven) & Spotted Lanternfly
Dealing Effectively With Ticks
Permethrin 0.52% Protective Bands
Shade Perennial Suggestions from “All About Gardening”.com