Upcoming Events
Garden Basics: Making Hypertufa Containers–CLASS IS FULL
Thursday, July 20 @ 2:00–4:00 pm, Trinity Episcopal Church
1118 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville
Hypertufa containers last for years and are ideal for displaying flowers, bulbs, succulents, and other plants—indoors or out. You will learn: what hypertufa is, how to make a hypertufa container safely, and plants that do well in a hypertufa container.
“Butterflies of the Night: Moths and their Host Plants” at the Quarry Gardens, Schuyler, Virginia
July 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
$5.00 – $10.00
Deborah Davis, painter, herbalist, and gardener will introduce moths and their plant hosts on the first day of National Moth Week. In the same order as butterflies—lepidoptera—are some 160,000 species of moths. We may think of them as pests, and some are, but they play an essential role as nocturnal pollinators for a wide array of plants that are not visited by bees or butterflies.
The program will start before dark with a presentation in the Visitor Center classroom and end with lighting a sheet outside to attract and identify moth visitors.
Entries Due July 31 for the Albemarle County Fair
James Monroe’s Highland 2050 James Monroe Parkway, Charlottesville, VAThe Piedmont Master Gardeners, in partnership with Albemarle/Charlottesville 4-H Youth Development, invite home gardeners, brewers, bakers, beekeepers, viticulturalists, artists and crafters to submit entries for the 2024 Albemarle County Fair.