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- Wildflower Walks at Ivy Creek
The third Saturday of every month, meet at the parking lot kiosk at 9AM. Check Upcoming Events for more information. - Fire Ecology in the Southeastern US
Marie Norwood, a PhD Student in Dr. Carla Staver's lab in the Princeton Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, shared ways that fire shapes, and is shaped by, vegetation, climate, and land management. - Methods for Ecological Restoration at Home
Piedmont Discovery Center team shares hands-on ecological restoration methodologies. - Corpse Botany
Virginia Working Landscapes’ Botany Technician, Natalie Izlar, helps us identify dormant plants. - The Basics of Nature Journaling
Carolyn Duckworth shares the basics of nature journaling for both personal enjoyment and programming and education opportunities. - Calculating the Impact of Leaving Leaves
Interesting article on the current science regarding leaving fallen leaves on your lawn and garden. -
Check out this great new resource from Virginia Working Landscapes.
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- Update your calendar for upcoming local meetings, presentations, lectures, and other events described in the Jefferson Chapter Events Calendar.
- And keep up with Jefferson chapter activities and discussion on our Facebook Page!
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Plant Sale 2025 — Mertensia virginica
Mertensia virginica (Virginia Bluebells) is also known as Virginia-cowslip, Roanoke-bells, Lungwort, and Oysterleaf. Growing up to 2 feet, Mertensia virginica thrive in part shade to shade in moist, rich soil. The leaves are a lovely shade of purple as they break ground quickly turning a medium green. The showy nodding…
Plant Sale 2025 — Claytonia virginica
Claytonia virginica (Spring Beauty, Virginia Spring Beauty or Eastern Spring Beauty) is an early bloomer (March to April) and by the time of our plant sale this plant is often done blooming and both the flowers and foliage are beginning to fade away for the year. This small native plant…
Plant Sale 2025 — Stylophrum diphyllum
Stylophrum diphyllum, commonly known as Wood or Celandine Poppy, adds a spot of bright yellow to a woodland garden from March to May. If given enough moisture, it may re-bloom throughout the summer. If it dries up during the hot summer days, it will reappear come spring of the following…
Plant Sale 2025 — Baptisia australis
Baptisia australis (Blue False Indigo) is a very showy dense shrub with bluish-purple pea like flowers. The foliage dies back to the ground in winter however, it will reappear in the spring. Plant it in full to part sun in average to moist soils. Once established it will tolerate clay…
- Common Blue Violet, Viola sororia/communis
- Plantain-leaved Pussytoes, Antennaria plantaginifolia
- Hepatica Heralds Spring
- American Hazelnut, Corylus americana
- Wildflower of the Year 2026: Ghost Pipes (Monotropa uniflora)
- Ebony Spleenwort, Asplenium platyneuron
- Flat-branched Tree-clubmoss, Dendrolycopododium obscurum
- American Hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana
