
The Garden Club of Virginia See you in Charlottesville tomorrow for our annual Conservation Forum! (see previous posts for details)

The Garden Club of Virginia from our horticulture blog here are some gorgeous fall photos, information about the ubiquitous Daddy Long Legs, and FUNGI!!
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The Garden Club of Virginia shares with you a green website from the Sierra Club, thoughts about the coal-fired power plant in Surry, and a great interactive website that will help you understand carbon emissions.
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Karen Jones, a member of the Martinsville Garden Club and the Garden Club of Virginia Conservation Committee, shared thiswonderful Sierra Club website with me, and I thought you may enjoy it, too. Sign ...

The Garden Club of Virginia reminds you to register for our 51st Annual Conservation Forum at UVA's Darden School of Business in Charlottesville, Friday, November 6 at 10:00 am. "Building Sustainable Communities".
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The Garden Club of Virginia accompanies Ann Hohenberger on a fall walk for some beautiful leafy views, information about longleaf pines, and some eagles!
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After days of warm, dry weather, a cold front moved into Virginia over the weekend, dropping temperatures to the 50’s and bringing us a trace of rain. We woke this morning to a landscape filled with attention grabbing golds and yellows. Here’s what I saw on my walk today:

The Garden Club of Virginia hopes to see you on November 6th at its Conservation Forum in Charlottesville!
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The Garden Club of Virginia will hold its 51st Annual Conservation Forum at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in Charlottesville, Virginia, November 5-6, 2009.Open to the public ...

The Garden Club of Virginia Oysters!
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Kathy Allen, a member of the Huntington Garden Club, forwarded Huntington Oysters,a blog about her club’s effortsto raise oysters for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. These oysters are not for eating; ...

The Garden Club of Virginia wants you to meet Creeping Charlie. More like Racing Charlie!
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Unless you live in a Rocky Mountain State, you probably have seen a certain evergreen ground perennial running in all directions through your grass this summer. Best known as Creeping Charlie (Glechoma ...

The Garden Club of Virginia a member shares an interesting post from the New York Times, relevant to our conservation forum in Charlottesville in November.
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Mary Bruce Glaize of the Little Garden Club of Winchester provided a link to an article by Timothy Egan, entitled Restoration Harvest,that appeared in the New York Times onOctober 7, 2009. Inhis post, ...

The Garden Club of Virginia introduces you to bugs and chickweed!
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There are a number of weeds that germinate in the fall, both grasses and broadleaf. They are called winter annuals because they can germinate in October and November, then over-winter as small plants ...

Jonah Carla Holland We'd love to see you at Timeless Design in a Sustainable World: The Charles F. Gillette Forum on October 28-29th at Lewis Ginter. Don't forget, register now, the price increases on Oct. 15th. Dinner on the 28th will include a tribute to Bill Spell.
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If one legacy of the 20th century is its architectural prowess, might the 21st century be devoted to developing exquisite green spaces between the buildings where we live, work, and play? All around ...

The Garden Club of Virginia sends you a friendly reminder about Virginia's tax-free energy-efficient appliance purchase days. Then read about the Trashy Ladies of the Garden Club of Norfolk! http://gcvconservation.wordpress.com/
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Just a reminder:The Virginia sales tax-free holiday on energy-efficient appliances is October 9-12, 2009. Noncommercial or personalpurchases of EnergyStar andWaterSense-qualified appliancescosting $2,500 or lessare exempt from the five-percent sales tax on these four days. ...

The Garden Club of Virginia wants you to come to Virginia Beach for the Fall Flower Festival, Wednesday, October 14, sponsored by the Virginia Beach Garden Club. Plenty of perennials, pansies, hard to find plants, and lots of garden gifts and ideas. Master Gardeners will be available to answer all your gardening questions. Come and have a great gardening day! Open from 10am to 5pm at the Virginia Beach Convention Center.Read More

The Garden Club of Virginia tells you all about Ginger Lilies
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Gardening is a joyous thing. Getting your hands in the earth, watching plants sprout, and nurturing them to maturity are amazing feelings. Also sharing your plants with friends, neighbors, new gardeners ...

The Garden Club of Virginia More beautiful green from Merry Outlaw, and an update on fly ash.
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The safety of fly ash, or coal ash,will be featured on this Sunday’s 60 Minutes.Abyproduct of coal-fired power generation, fly ashis recycled and used to manufacture consumer products. But ...




















