Garden Basics:Â Strategies for Environmentally Friendly Lawn Substitutes
August 5 @ 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
The Center at Belvedere, 540 Belvedere Blvd. Charlottesville
Maintaining a law can be labor-intensive and environmentally challenging, but what are the alternatives. Learn options for reducing your lawn and making it more environmentally-friendly, such as replacing some lawn with clover, ground covers and native plant beds.
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Guided Tree Walk at Preddy Creek
Monday, August 11 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Join the Tree Stewards and see a wide variety of trees, some of which are not often seen in Albemarle County, such as American wild plum, shingle oak and butternut. Focus will be on tree identification.
> Find out more and register for the walk HERE
How to Submit Invasive Plant Specimens for Research
Friday, August 22, 2025 • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Free Online webinar sponsored by the Blue Ridge PRISM
This webinar will show how you can collect and submit invasive plant specimens for research studies across Virginia. Herbariums are large collections of botanical specimens, and they need help to learn how invasive plants are migrating across the Commonwealth. Join Dr. Andrea Weeks for this tutorial on an easy way to help scientists study invasive plants.
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Butterfly Walk at Botanical Garden of the Piedmont
Botanical Garden of the Piedmont 950 Melbourne Road, Charlottesville
Sunday, August 3 @ two times:Â 9:30 am and 11:00 am
Free Guided Tour led by local naturalist Nancy Weiss offers an opportunity to explore native butterflies and the plants that help them thrive.
> Find out more and register HERE
The Botanical Garden is also offering a Butterfly Walk for young children. Find out more HERE.
Garden Guardians at the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont
August 6 @ 8:00 am – 10:00 am
This program is for people interested in becoming a Garden Guardian at the Botanical Garden. This group of intrepid volunteers performs vital maintenance work such as weeding existing beds, identifying and managing invasive plants, maintaining paths, and more.