the brochure - Piedmont Master Gardeners

register online
www.piedmontmastergardeners.org
or send your check with the form below:
Pre-registration is strongly advised.
Please detach this form and mail
with check payable to
piedmont Master Gardeners,
460 Stagecoach Road,
Charlottesville VA 22902
Piedmont
Master
Gardeners
To learn more about the Master Gardener
program in Charlottesville and Albemarle County,
community education projects, and free or low-cost
events offered to the public, please visit the Piedmont
Master Gardeners Web site:
www.piedmontmastergardeners.org
Circle dates you will attend:
March 25 - $8
april 1 - $8
april 15 - $8
april 22 - $8
all dates - $25 Amount enclosed: $_______
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GardeninG QuesTions?
Call, e-mail, or visit our horticulture Help Desk.
Trained Master Gardeners are available to assist you
with scientific, research-based information.
Hours: 9 a.m.-noon, Monday-Friday
Telephone: (434) 872-4583
ADDRESS
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Lecture series
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2015 spring Garden
e-mail: [email protected]
address: 2nd floor, Albemarle County Office
Building #5, 460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville
VA 22902-6441.
Virginia Cooperative Extension programs and employment are open
to all, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age,
disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, genetic information,
marital, family, or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.
and State University, Virginia State University, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating. Edwin J. Jones, Director, Virginia
Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; Jewel E. Hairston,
Administrator, 1890 Extension Program, Virginia State, Petersburg.
Learn the Latest
Gardening
Trends
aPriL 1
Grow Your
Best Lawn Ever
aPriL 15
See Plants as
Works of Art
aPriL 22
SponSored by
Piedmont Master Gardeners
Virginia Cooperative extension
Wednesdays, 7-830 p.m.
5th street, extended
MARCH 25
Barbara Pleasant
Spring into the Season:
Better Veggies, Less Work
in case of inclement weather, we will postpone or cancel a lecture if albemarle County
schools are closed.
APRIL 1
Bryce Lane
Gardening on the Edge: Latest Trends
in Horticulture
Winter‐weary gardeners head
into spring with grand plans,
but how will you balance your
green dreams with your available time and energy? Remember last year? Award‐winning
book author, blogger, and
Mother Earth News contributing editor Barbara Pleasant
will share dozens of practical,
labor‐saving tips that will pay off with more veggies, herbs and flowers from your one‐of‐a‐kind
garden—without giving up the rest of your life.
Gardening is constantly
changing, with new trends
being introduced everyday.
This Emmy Award-winning
TV host and Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate
Professor Emeritus from
NC State University will tell
you all about the latest and
greatest trends, and how they
influence the way we garden. From green roofs, to
vertical gardens, Halloween, poinsettias and gladiolus,
to fairy gardening, he will talk about all that is new!
APRIL 15
APRIL 22
Mike Goatley
“Spring” Into Your Lawn
Central Virginia’s transition
zone climate makes having
a great lawn a challenge. But
there are environmentally
friendly strategies you can employ to improve your chances
of success. This Virginia Tech
Professor and Extension Turfgrass specialist will tell you
how to give your lawn a great
start this spring. Among other topics, you’ll learn
how to choose the right grass for your needs and
your site, and how to test and improve your soil’s health.
if you have a disability and require assistance
to participate in this event, please contact the
days in advance.
The Piedmont Master Gardeners
have brought lectures to home gardeners
in the Albemarle–Charlottesville area
every spring since 1992.
Speakers include experts from the
Virginia Cooperative Extension of
Virginia Tech, Virginia State University,
and the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
as well as noted speakers from the
wider world of gardening.
Choose only those evenings of interest,
or save by subscribing to all four.
Lara Call Gastinger
Native Plants of Virginia from the
Perspective of a Botanical Artist
Learn about native flora in
our area from botanical artist
Lara Call Gastinger, whose
1300 illustrations grace the
recently published Flora of
Virginia. Lara will speak
on native plants that can
thrive in your garden, ways
to document and capture
their beauty through art, and
introduce recent projects. Come to be inspired, excited, and more observant about the blooms of Spring.
Subscribe to our free monthly online
gardening newsletter The Garden Shed at:
www/piedmontmastergardeners.org/
garden-shed/