Three friends from two native plant nurseries and an author-consultant on rewilding the landscape toured the Quarry Gardens at Schuyler this week. They hardly noticed the quarries. And it didn’t matter that most of the spring ephemerals are still weeks from...
For lovers of those delicate flowers awakened by sunlight that reaches the forest floor before the trees unfold their leaves, three walks coming up at The Quarry Gardens may be of interest. On Wednesday, March 22 at 2 p.m., and Saturday, April 15 at 10 a.m., QGs...
On a recent rainy Sunday afternoon, Blue Ridge mycologists found hundreds of zombie ant mushrooms at The Quarry Gardens. Society leader Pat Mitchell (red beard at right) documented the first one in Virginia on iNaturalist back in August. Later, learning that Amelio...
Exciting to see our old friends Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr at the Quarry Gardens this week. The author and illustrator are on the road, living in a repurposed school bus with their four children—Alden, Kato, Augie, Jasper—and dog Dumbles. They are spending this...
…is the title of Glenda Booth’s four-page article about The Quarry Gardens in the fall issue of Piedmont Virginian magazine. Read it online (https://piedmontvirginian.com/read-the-current-issue-online) or pick up a copy at one of 105 distribution points...
New generations of architectural designers and planners are learning to partner with the natural world rather than merely build over it. For example, at the University of Virginia, such courses as EcoTech 1 cultivate in first-year landscape architecture students an...