Field Trip

Pat Davis & friends

Field trip.

Field trip

A brief introduction to the Quarry Gardens project in the Visitor Center followed by a guided tour of soapstone quarrying artifacts and native plant communities along the mail trail around the quarry pools. In bloom: goldenrods, rabbit tobacco, lace grass, strawberry shrub, pink muhly grass, split beard bluestem, white snakeroot. In seed: Just about everything […]

Guided field trip.

The Thieblots, co-owners of the Quarry Gardens, will lead this tour. In the Visitor Center, Armand will introduce the QGs project and the history of soapstone mining. Bernice will lead a walk along the main trail around the quarries. n bloom: goldenrods, rabbit tobacco, lace grass, strawberry shrub, pink muhly grass, split beard bluestem, white […]

The Thieblots, co-owners of the Quarry Gardens, will lead this tour. In the Visitor Center, Armand will introduce the QGs project and the history of soapstone mining. Bernice will lead a walk along the main trail around the quarries. Among the plant communities ending the season, look for Upland ironweed, Milkweeds, Maryland golden aster, Boneset, […]

The Thieblots, co-owners of the Quarry Gardens, will lead this tour. In the Visitor Center, Armand will introduce the QGs project and the history of soapstone mining. Bernice will lead a walk along the main trail around the quarries. Among the plant communities ending the season, look for Upland ironweed, Milkweeds, Maryland golden aster, Boneset, […]

Meeting and foray.

Meeting and foray.

Geology Department field trip

Monthly meeting and foray

Certification training walk

Noted Virginia Wildflowers blogger Cynthia Wood will lead a walk along the Quarry Gardens' main trail in search of early spring ephemerals—those plants that take advantage of longer days and sunlight streaming though leafless tree canopies to do their seductive and reproductive thing. The walk will be held unless there is heavy rain. (The plants […]

Woody Plants Pruning Workshop

Armand Thieblot, co-owner of the Quarry Gardens, will lead this tour. In the Visitor Center, he will introduce the QGs project and the history of soapstone mining. Then he will lead a walk along the main trail around the quarries where may found Virginia bluebells, Marsh marigolds, Dwarf larkspurs, Dwarf crested irises, Wild geraniums, and […]