Blue Ridge Mycological Society
Quarry Gardens Visitor Center VA, United StatesMeeting and foray.
Meeting and foray.
Guided walk
Garden Club tour
Field trip
Workshop
Training class field trip
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. Among the plant communities, look for Pussytoes, Woodland stonecrop, Rattlesnake weed, Prickly pear cactus, Sundrops, Indian […]
Field trip.
Site scouting
Field trip.
Field trip
Field trip and picnic
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 Wild columbine, False indigos, Mountain mints, Goatsbeard, Coreopsis, Fleabanes, Dwarf larkspurs, Fringe […]
Field trip and lunch
Lunch, tour
Quarry Gardens co-owner Armand Thieblot will lead this tour with an introduction to the project and the history of soapstone mining in the Visitor Center, followed by a walk along the trail that circumnavigates the quarry pools. The trail feature a loose chain of galleries of native plants. We invite you to bring a lunch […]
Field trip.
Lunch, tour