Jan 26, 2024
In this workshop for home gardeners—to be held at the Quarry Gardens on Saturday, February 3, from 1:30 to 3:30—Master Gardener Ron Fandetti will explain and demonstrate correct pruning techniques to promote the health and beauty of your landscape’s shrubs and small trees.
We’ll begin with an illustrated talk in the Visitor Center classroom and follow it outdoors with a hands-on demonstration of correct pruning techniques outdoors. This is a collaborative public training offered by the Nelson County Extension Master Gardeners and the Quarry Gardens.
The number of spaces is limited. Participants should dress for the weather and bring their own hand pruners—although some will be available.
Sign up at quarrygardensatschuyler.com/visit. The Visitor Center will open at 12:30 for those who would like to bring a bag lunch before the program begins.
Jan 15, 2024
The first event of the Quarry Gardens’ 2014 season was a special meeting of the Blue Ridge Mycological Society—for which we are most grateful. Twenty-plus volunteers gathered to help us remove fallen trees and embedded trash from the quarry edges. They filled the van in the featured photo with junk and brush. They also piled our dump truck to overflowing with wood debris and invasive plants. And then…they repaired to the Visitor Center for hot soup.
Volunteers are welcome throughout the year. Our property manager Forrest Maguire always has a to-do list to share.
In the plant galleries, we left last year’s growth for the insects and birds. The first official spring clean-up day will be February 24, when project manager Emma Stephens of the Center for Urban Habitats will be here to guide volunteers.
To learning more about volunteering: quarrygardensatschuyler.org/contact
The QGs is home to the mushroom club, which meets here monthly. To learn more about events and membership: brmsclub.org
