Please note new date: Thursday, May 27, 2021 Bill West is the Urban Forestry Coordinator for Roanoke City. Meet him at Mill Mountain Wildflower Garden to learn about trees of our area. The Mill Mountain Garden Club maintains the garden, and a member will join us to talk about their work. Park and sign in…

Our regular meeting on September 27 will feature a Zoom presentation at 7 p.m. by the renowned landscape designer, John Magee. His topic: “Natives in the Landscape.” He will show us around a few of his award-winning projects to help pass along ideas of what we can do in our backyards to help work with…

We are delighted to offer an in-person program on Monday, November 15 at 7:00 p.m. with Bob Whiton at the Roanoke Council of Garden Clubs, located at 3640 Colonial Avenue, Roanoke, VA. Bob will be discussing native bees and their interactions with plants. Bob is a Virginia Master Naturalist, volunteers at the Pandapas Pond pollinator…

Carl Absher will be joining us with an update on research on the American Chestnut. Carl is, and has been, a consulting arborist at Tree Doctor, LLC, and works with Renewables and Environmental Issues at Virginia Tech. He speaks to Master Gardeners at their yearly conferences at Virginia Tech and at other MG meetings in…

Bedford Master Gardener Jim Revell will present his popular talk “The World of Spiders: Spiders in Virginia.” Jim is much in demand as a speaker and instructor and has surpassed 5,000 hours of community service with the Master Gardeners. According to the Scott Baker, the VCE agent who oversees the Bedford MGs, Revell provides “a…

Walk the trails of Green Hill Park in Roanoke County and marvel at the trillium display. We’ll see lots of other early wildflowers too including larkspur, wild ginger and twinleaf on the hill and Virginia bluebells along the river. Leaders Linda Harrison, Rebecca Ross and Ellen Holtman will meet you at the picnic shelter at…

Two busy local environmentalists will be with us to let us in on the details of two important local projects. Donna Haley, active Master Naturalist since 2012 and Master Gardener since 2006, will explain the National Wildlife Federation’s Habitat at Home project and tell us how it is shaping up in the Roanoke Valley. Nicole…

Meet for carpooling at 9:00 AM at Hardee’s at 2038 West Main Street in Salem (very near I-81 exit 137). We will drive to Radford on U.S. 11/ U.S 460. If you would prefer not to carpool, you may meet us at 9:45 AM in the parking lot at the park in Radford just off…

Cost: $10 per person The Quarry Gardens opened in the spring of 2017 with walking trails, more than 30 galleries of native plant communities and a Visitor Center that includes exhibits on native plants, local ecosystems and the history of the soapstone industry in Schuyler. Parking space is limited at the Gardens, so carpooling is…

Our speaker will be Adam Taylor, the manager of Catawba Sustainability Center in Catawba, VA. He will introduce the Center and the kinds of projects under way there. The Center’s 377-acre farm property is a place of interdisciplinary research and hands-on learning. Through research, teaching and demonstration of sustainable practices in agriculture, forestry and land…