MOUNTAIN TOP ARBORETUM PRESENTS : A lecture by Darrel MorrisonFREE ZOOM WEBINARSunday , September 55:00 Prime Minister – 6:30 necropsy

Darrel Morrison is a celebrated landscape architect and educator whose ecology - based attack to intention has determine generations of practitioners . InBeauty of the Wild , he tells stories of people and place that have nourish his vocation as a teacher and a designer of nature - inspired landscape .

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CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA TREE STEWARDSFREE WALKS AND TALKS IN SEPTEMBERREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED

See thisLINKfor more information and way for each of these Tree Stewards events . October events are also name .

Pen Park Tree Identification Walk(currently full)Sunday , September 5 , 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Pen Park Road , Charlottesville

Tree Basics Class : Trees and Wildlife   ( ZOOM)Thursday , September 9 , 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

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Botanical Garden of the Piedmont Tree Identification WalkSaturday , September 11 , 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.950 Melbourne Road , Charlottesville

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direction : The Botanical Garden of the Piedmont is located at 950 Melbourne Road ( Corner of Melbourne Rd and the John Warner Parkway ) . Parking is available within the Garden when the Gate on Melbourne Road is capable . Parking is also available along either side of Melbourne Road . The walk will be some 90 min and cover 1.4 mile .   If there has been any rain , the site tend to be wet so hardy , rainproof shoes are recommend .

University of Virginia Campus Tree Identification WalkFriday , September 24 , 11:00 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m. University Chapel , 145 McCormick Road , UVA , Charlottesville

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Directions : Parking is available in the 14thStreet Garage , Central Grounds Garage at 400 Emmet Street ( the Bookstore Garage ) and on the Street . Please meet at 10:55 am in front of the Chapel , which is on the west side of the Rotunda .   The base on balls will be limited to 16 masses .

ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE ALLIANCE ( ELA )   WEBINAR“Designing for Dry Stone Walling in the Landscape”Wednesday , September 83:00 – 4:00 PM

Traditional dry stone construction methods offer several advantage when used in sustainable landscape structure . This academic session will contact on the chronicle , as well as some of the method involved in dry stone construction . acquire the introductory parameters for determining carbon footprint and other environmental implications when plan for dry stone walls .

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Mt. CUBA CENTERVIRTUAL course of study for SEPTEMBER

“ From Wolf Spiders to Orb Weavers : An Overview of Mid - Atlantic Spiders”Tuesday , September 14 , 6:00 – 7:30 premier

spider are ubiquitous creatures in our cellar , meadows , and woodlots . While they inspire notion of awe among many , they are a source of wonderment and mystery to the nature partizan . Join entomologist Cathy Stragar for this interactive discussion on the natural history , designation , feeding strategies , and adaptations of the common spiders in the mid - Atlantic neighborhood .

“ Seeds : Wild versus Commercial”Thursday , September 16 , 6:00 – 7:30 PM

We all know the importance of planting and raise native plants , but what are the differences between waste seeds and those you may purchase from a commercial vendor ? While semen farming is need to meet the need from refurbishment practitioners and householder , the end production can dissent considerably from local , wild material . Join Native Plant Trust ’s Research Botanist , Jessa Finch , for this interactional online session to search the impact of seed source on commercially sold source and to equip yourself with the information you require to be an informed purchaser of native flora come .

Mt. Cuba Centeris a non - profit botanical garden located in Hockessin , Delaware near Wilmington . Its woodland gardens produce some of the most prominent displays of wildflower in the mid - Atlantic region . The botanical garden is now open to the populace , see thisLINKfor info . See thisLINKfor information on Mt. Cuba ’s humans - illustrious trial garden and bailiwick resolution .

PIEDMONT MASTER GARDENERSGARDEN BASICS CLASS via   ZOOM“Lawns and Lawn Alternatives”Saturday , September 182:00 – 3:30 PM

Please check thisLINKfor more information , and to register . Register by September 13 .

BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE Piemonte

The Fourth Annual Ian Robertson Legacy : LectureshipThursday evening at 7:00PM in September

The stem of the public lecture series this class is The Healing Properties of Nature . There are four talks in the month of September on back-to-back Thursday even . The topics are as follows :

VIRGINIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETYSTATE AND CHAPTER EVENTS

See thisLINKfor a listing of both practical and in - soul September / October events host by dissimilar state and chapters of the VNPS .

THE NATURE FOUNDATION AT WINTERGREEN3421 Wintergreen Drive , Roseland , VA 22967

peculiar Plant SaleSaturday , September 49:00 AM – 12:00 atomic number 61

The Greenhouse is closed Sunday and Monday ; hour motley from Tuesday - Saturday . See thisLINKfor more information and to see alisting of aboriginal industrial plant usable for leverage . Plants can also be ordered online and pick up at an ordered time by emailinginfo@twnf.org

September Guided Hikes

For information on guided hikes , difficulty ratings , and to file , please see thisLINKto the September calendar .

LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN

autumn PlantFest1800 Lakeside AvenueRichmond , Virginia 23228Friday , September 17 , 9:00 AM – 5:00 PMSaturday , September 18 , 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Fall PlantFestis harbor outside in Parking Lot C at the Garden ( no admission charge fee or just the ticket necessary . ) The Fall PlantFest have trafficker selling plant ranging from well - known favorites to rare exotics . Knowledgeable garden volunteers aid you choose your best plants ! See thisLINKfor more information .

Grow Native : landscape gardening with Virginia NativesZoom Webinar SeriesEvenings in September , October , and November6:30 – 8:00 PM

If you ’ve hear that using aboriginal plants in your railyard assist ameliorate the environment for everyone , but are not sure why or how to do that , this series of webinars brings you up to accelerate on ways to turn your home and garden into a native - friendly , sustainable , and springy habitat for birds and other wildlife .

$ 10 cover the entire serial . Attend each platform or pick and take your topics . For dates , topic , and to register , see thisLINK .

MONTICELLO ’S TUFTON FARM

2021 Fall Plant Sale at the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants1354 Tufton FarmCharlottesville , VA 22902Saturday , October 99:00 AM – 3:00 post-mortem examination

Preregistration will be required;check back for more selective information in former summer by chew the fat thisLINK.General information for Monticello is(434 ) 984 - 9800 .

Heritage Harvest Festival Tasting EventSaturday , October 2310:00 AM – 12:00 PM

This popular annual event is a unique chance to taste and equate heirloom and conventional apple , sample cheese pairings and hard ciders , see Monticello ’s Tufton Farm , and learn about the history of Malus pumila from featured guest loudspeaker system Charlotte Shelton of Albemarle CiderWorks .

Tickets are $ 35 each and space is restrict to 75 participant . Children 11 and under attend detached . See thisLINKfor readjustment information .

BLUE RIDGE PRISM ( PARTNERSHIP FOR INVASIVE REGIONAL SPECIES MANAGEMENT)INVASIVE industrial plant WORKSHOPS : IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROLWORKSHOPS VIA ZOOM.For more about upcoming workshops , see thisLINK .

See thisLINKfor oecumenical selective information on PRISM , enquiry updates , invasive works factsheets , and more .

MONARCH JOINT VENTURETHE 2021 Monarch Conservation Webinar Series4th Tuesday of the Month * 2:00 PM Eastern Time

The Monarch Joint Venture is partnering with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Conservation Training Center to put on another year full of informative and inspiring webinars on all thing monarch . Webinars will be hold live on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 2 PM EST . Each webinar will be recorded for later viewing as well . Check on the session title to file .

Future Webinar Titles :

  • The November and December dates have been moved to fend off conflicting with major holidays . Please note this list is dependent to change . TheirEVENTS PAGEwill have the most up - to - appointment info on the webinar serial publication , as well as a calendar of extra monarch - colligate outcome , and information on recording of past webinars .

SIERRA CLUB VIRGINIA CHAPTER FREE VIRTUAL EVENT“Proposals to Reintroduce Red Wolves to Virginia”Tuesday , Sept 147:00 – 8:00 PM

Richmond - based diarist Stephen Nash has been wait into proposal to reintroduce red Hugo Wolf , Canis lupus rufus , to Virginia . In the 1970s , the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service caught the last 17 known representatives of this critically endangered species , whose range once extended from Florida to New York and the Atlantic states to Texas . The way has work out to enlarge the confined population and reintroduce these creature to the wild , with varying achiever and gale - force political headwinds . Today , only a smattering of scarlet wolves rest in the wild in coastal North Carolina , and two hundred or so are in captive breeding facility , nine of which are at Roanoke ’s Mill Mountain Zoo .

Register at thisLINKfor this free virtual consequence .

DOLLY MADISON GARDEN CLUBLecture and BrunchMarianne Willburn , “ Big Dreams , Small Garden”THE BARN at THE INN at willow tree GROVE , ORANGE , VAWednesday , November 1010:00 AM – 12:00 premier

See thisLINKfor more entropy and to record . Space is limited .

VIRGINIA COOPERATIVE university extension ( VCE ) VIDEO LIBRARY

VCE extend a assortment ofYouTube videoson topic geared to both beginner and more in advance nurseryman . Examples of theme admit :

project Your Fall GardenRose Rosette Disease , Parts 1 and 2Plant Disease Clinic : Idaho and DiagnosesWeed Identification : IDs and DiagnosesSoil Testing Lab : IDs and Diagnoses

For these and many more video that address specific subject or those of more worldwide interest , see thisLINK .