Rockbridge Area
Master Gardeners Association

No, not of the United States, but, rather of our Rockbridge County Master Gardener Association. HEADLINE: “MG Nominating Committee fails...

(AKA “Rocket 88”) My introduction to recorded music was really a non experience. My family moved to a rental house in Augusta, Georgia...

If your shy and self-effacing blog writer may be allowed to say it, I was once a fairly competent birder. Royster Lyle, my best friend,...

By chance I have discovered a book and also an article very interesting to me as a gardener and a lover of nature. The book, a...

My family, what is left of it, is scattered across the country, from Alabama to Texas to Hawaii, so it seemed only natural early on that...

Well, not too much, anyway. Many years ago, a local organization (I believe it was Rockbridge Historical Foundation) convinced many...

I’m aware that books don’t grow on trees, although one of my regular readers wishes they did. I don’t know about the other two readers....

In the 1940s, my father in law, an avid fisher, built a fine house on Burwells Bay, near the mouth of the James River. When my son was...

There’s a belief going around that talking to one’s plants will cause them to flourish. Well, there might be some validity here. A person...

I have owned a camera since I was twelve years old, and in the dark bathroom even learned to develop and print my film. Later I wanted to...

The word landscaping always conveyed to me something far too elaborate that one would find on an eighteenth-century French or Italian...

To me, March is an untrustworthy month. The winds and the ides of March are both notorious, but the month holds much that is unexpected....

My title may sound like the name of a ski resort, but I mean only to suggest what might go on in a garden during winter. What? Nothing?...

My first house plant was a pineapple. I must have read some place that it was possible to root the top of the plant, below the leaves,...

OK, so my cut flower garden doesn't quite resemble that of Lisa Ziegler. Maybe it's because I didn't have Grandpa conditioning my soil...

As April draws to a close, I just wanted to share my appreciation for the seeds shared at our January Seed Swap and my excitement over...

by Jim Davis The poet Wordsworth was probably right. The way we look at nature changes as we grow up. Our early innocence is full of...

I was only a child during the Second World War, but for various reasons the conflict seemed a presence in my life, even without the...

By Jim Davis In my years as a Master Gardener I’ve taken on a few jobs, all of which were not only satisfying but also a real pleasure....

by Jim Davis My mother was a great gardener, and I inherited her love of nature and plants.  Routine things such as establishing a career...