ARCHIVED EVENTS FOR VIRGINIA
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Virtual Programs / Locations with Multiple Events
AUGUST 2024
Adult Garden Workshop
2 – Friday, August 2, 6 pm – 8 pm
Avant Garden Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 901 Amherst St.
Winchester, VA
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Homesteading 101: Gardening by the Month
3 – Saturday, August 2, 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Open Door Homestead LLC, 8089 Greenhouse Rd.
Weyer’s Cave, VA
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Garden Site Tour
5 – Monday, August 5, 10 am – 11 am
Botanical Garden of the Piedmont, 950 Melbourne Rd.
Charlottesville, VA
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40th Anniversary Speaker Series: Botanic Gardens: Seizing the Moment while Imagining the Future
14 – Wednesday, August 14, 2 pm – 4 pm
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, 1800 Lakeside Ave.
Richmond, VA
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Gardening for Birds
22 – Thursday, August 22, 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Blandy Experimental Farm/ State Arboretum, 400 Blandy Farm Lane
Boyce VA
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VIRTUAL PROGRAMS
Virtual Classroom
Henrico County Extension Office
Please enjoy these archived Public Education Classes. Unless otherwise indicated, these classes were originally presented as live Zoom meetings. Browse classes . . .
LOCATIONS WITH MULTIPLE EVENTS
Botanical Garden of the Piedmont
P.O. Box 6224
Charlottesville, VA 22906
(434) 953-0060
info@piedmontgarden.org
Calendar of Events
The mission of the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont is to invite all community members and visitors to engage in nature, to educate and inspire through the beauty and importance of plants, to advance sustainability, and to promote human and environmental well-being.
Green Spring Gardens
4603 Green Spring Road – Alexandria, Virginia 22312
Phone: (703) 642-5173
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/green-spring/
Green Spring Gardens is a Fairfax County park dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the area’s horticultural, historical, and natural resources. It is a 33-acre public garden and National Historic Site where visitors are invited to explore the Historic House, Horticulture Center, Glasshouse, ponds, Virginia Native Plant Trail, and over twenty different demonstration gardens.
Norfolk Botanical Garden
6700 Azalea Garden Road, Norfolk, VA
Phone: 757-441-5830
https://norfolkbotanicalgarden.org/
With over 60 different gardens to explore, we have something for every season and every taste. Some of our gardens showcase styles from different parts of the world, while others are focused on one particular type of plant. We have gardens of intense fragrance and color, and we have some for reflective contemplation. There are several that offer manicured formality, but we also have many places where nature rules, and these are some of the best to see local birds and other wildlife.
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Central Virginia Gardens
Charlottesville – Highland was the home of James Monroe and features boxwood gardens overlooking a working farm. Many events throughout the year take place here, such as Plantation Days and the Virginia Wine Festival.
Charlottesville – Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, is an architectural masterpiece with winding paths bordered by flowers and beautiful oval-shaped flowerbeds. Documentary evidence suggests that Jefferson grew approximately 105 species of herbaceous flowers!
Chase City – MacCallum More Museum and Gardens features an arboretum, herb, wildflower, rose and themed gardens as well as nine fountains and eclectic imported works of art.
Lynchburg – The Anne Spencer House and Garden was home to the internationally acclaimed poet of the Harlem Renaissance. The garden served as an inspiration for much of her poetry and may be toured by appointment only.
Lynchburg – Old City Cemetery features a butterfly garden, lotus pond and a garden of 19th-century shrubs and roses. The gates are open daily, dawn to dusk.
Montpelier Station – Montpelier, home of James and Dolley Madison features a 200-year-old-growth forest as well as a landscape arboretum, beautiful restored formal gardens all overlooking the breathtaking vistas of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Madison described his home as “a squirrel’s jump from Heaven.”
Richmond – Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden features more than 25 acres of gardens, including a children’s garden with colorful plants and shrubs to attract butterflies, birds and other nectar.
Richmond – Maymont is a 100-acre Victorian country estate. Visitors can wander the geometrically shaped beds in the Italian Garden and enjoy the relaxing noise from the cascade fountain, designed from a similar feature in the Villa Torlonia near Rome.
Richmond – Not far from Maymont, visitors experience a step further back in time when they visit Agecroft Hall, the Tudor estate that originally stood in Lancashire, England, and re-constructed on the rolling banks of the James River. Agecroft’s grounds include the fragrance garden a sunken garden that’s modeled after the pond garden at Hampton Court Palace in England.
Richmond – Next door to Agecroft Hall is Virginia House, a reconstructed 12th-century priory also dismantled and brought to Richmond from England in 1925. Terraced gardens overlook the James River. This property was awarded a medallion commendation by the Virginia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2000, one of few properties in Virginia to receive this award.
Richmond – Less than ten miles west of Virginia House is Tuckahoe Plantation, the boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson. The rambling gardens are beautiful from March through October and visitors are welcome to peruse them from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. year ’round. The mansion, however, is only available for tours by appointment and during special events.
Green Spring Gardens (Alexandria) Calendar
Hahn Horticulture Garden (Blacksburg) Calendar
Norfolk Botanical Garden (Norfolk) Calendar
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden (Richmond) Calendar