| Friday, February 10 |
| 12:30PM |
Dean Norton |
For the Love of Boxwood
Learn the proper care and culture of growing boxwood from long time horticulturist/boxwood gardener Dean Norton. Pruning, care and plant selection will be discussed. |
| 1:30PM |
Sandy McDougle |
Plants You Should Be Using
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| 2:30PM |
Peggy Cornett |
Thomas Jefferson’s Flower Gardens
For Thomas Jefferson, gardening was a life-long passion revewaled to us today through his voluminous correspondence, notes, and diaries. This PowerPoint presentation looks at the diversity of flowers, both ornamental and native, that were grown at Monticello and our present-day efforts to preserve and maintain them. |
| 3:30PM |
Linda Marchman |
Pollinators, Butterflies and our food
After bees, butterflies are the next best pollinators. By keeping them in your yard, you and your dinner guests will benefit. |
| Saturday, February 11 |
| 12:00PM |
Mark Viette |
TBD
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| 1:00PM |
Peggy Singlemann |
Flowering Plants from Japan for Richmond
Maymont's Japanese Garden is 100 years old; the garden is filled with a wealth of plants that suit any garden in Richmond. Learn more about these Far Eastern beauties for your landscape. |
| 2:00PM |
Peter Hatch |
Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden
Thomas Jefferson wrote that "the greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture" and his 1,000-foot-long, terraced vegetable garden at Monticello was an experimental laboratory, an Ellis Island of 330 varieties of vegetables. Jefferson himself was a seedy missionary of new and unusual novelties, and his legacy in food, wine, and gardening provides us today with a profound model in vegetable cuisine, sustainable horticulture, and a passion for the earth. |
| 3:00PM |
Rebecca Kolls |
The Green Revolution
Join Rebecca Kolls as she humorously shares her trials and tribulations of trying to grow green in her backyard. What works and what doesn't. Deer a problem? She has the answer. Bring a notebook as Rebecca will share some of her best tips, safest recipes for sick plants, insect control and how to wipe out weeds without a toxic arsenal. |
| Sunday, February 12 |
| 12:00PM |
Rebecca Kolls |
Becky’s BEESness
Every third bite of food you eat today is a result of a hard working bee buzzing around in the garden. Join Rebecca Kolls, Master Gardener and bee keeper as she takes you on a fascinating journey inside her beehives. You'll learn quickly how cool honey bees really are why it's important support these fuzzy buggers and what you can do to encourage them into your garden - Bees = more flowers, veggies and fruits. What's not to love |
| 1:00PM |
Peter Hatch |
Thomas Jefferson, Gardener
Explore the themes that defined Thomas Jefferson’s love of gardening: his use of native plants, the union of gardening and sociability, and his experimentation with useful plants as a means of social change. Mr. Hatch will also review the restoration of Monticello’s gardens over the last fifty years, and examine the character of the historic fruits, flowers, and vegetables cultivated by ‘the sage of Monticello’. |
| 2:00PM |
Wesley Greene |
Gardening Under Cover
At the Colonial Garden of Williamsburg's Duke of Gloucester Street, gardeners in the Historic Trades department are rediscovering the tools and techniques that allowed 18th century gardeners to produce vegetables all the year round. This presentation explores the history of gardening out of season and illustrates many devises and methods gardeners can use today to extend the season of productivity in the vegetable garden. |
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