Rockbridge Area
Master Gardeners Association

What Do Rockbridge Master Gardeners Do?

 

As a public service to Rockbridge County, Master Gardeners assist the Virginia Cooperative Extension agent in educating and informing the public.  They accomplish these goals in a number of ways.

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• Answer questions and volunteer solutions to common gardening and landscaping problems through the Extension Office and though Master Gardener run Plant Clinics.​

• Come to homeowners' properties to assess gardens and answer questions about invasive plants.

• Sponsor public programs on gardening topics.

• Offer plants, small trees, shrubs, and a variety of garden items for sale at our public
  education programs. These sales provide funding for the many MG projects.​   ​

• Staff a booth at the Rockbridge Community Festival and other local events.​

• Write articles for our community newsletter, The Garden Gate.

• Teach children at Rockbridge area schools with both classroom instruction and

        demonstration gardens.​

• Maintain certain public gardens to provide horticulture education.

• Work, as a team and on an ad hoc basis, with local organizations to plan and
  implement public gardens as models of design and content.  ​

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Master Gardeners Help Create a Riparian Buffer

 

Rockbridge Master Gardeners worked with the Chesapeake Bay         

Foundation by planting trees along Moore's Creek in Lexington

to create a riparian buffer. Click for the article.​​​​​

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