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February 2, 2012. Thursday. “What’s Buggin’ You?
Insects in our Gardens” The
Virginia
Horticultural Foundation Home Gardener Day
at the
Marriott at
City
Center, Newport News.
8:30am-3pm. Speakers, book signings, Garden Book Store on site, hot lunch,
silent auction. Registration $75 before
1/13: $90 between 1/14-31: $100 at door. Info at
www.mahsc.org
***4 credit hours***
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February 8, 9,
2012. Wednesday, Thursday. 8am-4pm. “Treading
Lightly on the Land”. Winter Symposium and CVNLA
Short Course. Massey
Conference
Center,
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.
$40/day.
www.lewisginter.org
***5 credit hours
per day***
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February 9-12,
2012. Thursday-Sunday. Maymont Flower and Garden
Show, Richmond Convention Center.
Richmond. $10. Speakers
to be announced.
http://macevents.com/show.cfm/eventID/139 |
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February 10-11, 2012. Friday, Saturday. Virginia Association
for Biological Farming (VABF) Conference.
Koger
Center, Richmond, VA.
More information when posted on website.
http://www.vabf.org/j/cal
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February 11, 2012. Saturday. 10:00 a.m.–12:00
p.m. Woody Plant Propagation Workshop,
Hahn Horticulture Garden,
Va Tech, Blacksburg.
Call Stephanie at 540-231-5970 to register by
phone or email vtgarden@vt.edu ***2 credit
hours***
http://www.hort.vt.edu/hhg/events.html
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February 16, 2012. Thursday. Piedmont Landscape
Assn 29th Annual Seminar. Paramount
Theater, Charlottesville, VA.
More info at
www.piedmontlandscape.org
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February 25th
Saturday.
Winter
Plant Identification and Nature Enjoyment Walk.
9:30-12:30
at Persimmon Tree Farm.
Co-sponsored
by the
Upper James River
Chapter of the Native Plant Society and
RAMGA.
Everyone is welcome. For more information call
Katherine
Smith at
261-2562
For
directions click here:
Persimmon Tree Farm
***3
credit hours***
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February 25,
2012. Saturday. VMGA program: 3rd
Annual MG
Day at VSU -“Focus on Food- from Field to
Table”.
Ettrick, VA.
Registration open 1/2/12. Limited to 200. $15-$20. More info:
www.VMGA.net
***5 credit
hours***
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February 25,
2012. Saturday. Four-County Master Gardener
program “Sparking Creativity in Your Garden”.
9am-4pm.
Germanna
Community College,
Culpeper.
Speakers include
Dr. Holly Scoggins and Karen Rexrode.
$35. Seating limited to 300. More info at
www.fourcountymastergardener.org
and Margaret
Hutcheson 540-543-2220 or
mfhutch3@vabb.com
***4 credit
hours***
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February 28, Tuesday. Rockbridge Master
Naturalists invite Master Gardeners to attend a
presentation by Phillip Hysell, Warning
Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather
Service Forecast Office,
Blacksburg
Office.
Old Courthouse Meeting Room,
Lexington.
7:30-8:30pm. Check out this interview with him
at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3M8Zpiqv8c
***1 credit hour***
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March 7, 2012.
Wednesday. “The Nature of Trees”, Trees Virginia
Workshop, Western
Virginia
Community College,
Roanoke,
VA.
Speakers include
Dr. Douglas Tallamy, Dr. Bob Lyons, Jim Flott
and Dr. Neil Hendrickson. More info will be
available at
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May 1-4, 2012 Tuesday- Friday.
Southern Region Master Gardener
Conference at
Natchez, Mississippi. Details and info at
http://msucares.com/srmg and registration at
http://www.regonline.com/srmg
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June 20-24
MASTER GARDENER COLLEGE! Check
website for info...
http://www.hort.vt.edu/mastergardener/#
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