[CANCELLED] Seasons at the Quarry Gardens

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Date/Time
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location
Ivy Creek Natural Area - Education Building

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This event has been cancelled.

The Quarry Gardens at Schuyler Registry Site consists of 40 acres bordered by 400 acres in a conservation easement. The 40-acre public garden area was selected by the owners, Armand and Bernice Thieblot, working with ecologists to encapsulate the rare community types and quarry pits and rubble piles.

Neither Armand nor Bernice Thieblot has any formal education in botany, environmental science, or garden design. Armand was a professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Business and Bernice ran a company that consulted with and provided creative services for the marketing programs of a national clientele of colleges and universities.

They lived over the company’s store in a converted firehouse in downtown Baltimore until 2013. Their native plants education has been a slow process, begun when they purchased land in Schuyler in 1990. Since 2015, they have had a continuing relationship with Charlottesville’s Center for Urban Habitats, which surveyed the quarry site’s biota and designed the plant galleries. Both Armand and Bernice are Master Naturalists and Quarry Gardens tour guides.

They know they are stewarding more than 500 species of native plants—and are still learning new identifications every day.

October and November meetings are planned for in person but may change depending on how Covid develops.

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