Timely Topics

Creating a backyard forest is a fast-growing movement, inspired in part by the desire to mitigate the effects of global… Read More »Grow a Forest in Your Backyard

Piedmont Master Gardener volunteers are reaching out to garden centers, nurseries and other retailers in the Charlottesville-Albemarle County area to… Read More »Find Native Plants at a Retailer Near You

We gardeners don’t need a weatherman to know it’s been an abnormally dry year in the Charlottesville area. Federal weather… Read More »Wise Watering in Dry Times

The Piedmont Master Gardeners’ Therapeutic Horticulture team won a recent shout-out from the Jefferson Area Board for Aging, which praised… Read More »PMG’s Therapeutic Horticulture Program Earns Applause

As the weather warms up, gardeners are very eager to get those tomato transplants into the vegetable garden. Whether you… Read More »Tips on Transplanting Tomatoes

Earth Day 2021: It’s Time to Restore Our Earth Happy spring! We hope you’ve managed to get outside and dig… Read More »Three Days of Climate Action to Restore our Earth

This time of year they are SO tempting! Seeing the eruption of white blossoms along a city boulevard or a… Read More »Beware the Callery Pear!

As thoughts turn to vegetable gardening in late winter and early spring, many of us want to start some vegetables… Read More »Time to Start Tomatoes From Seed!

Federal climate data confirm what we’ve all seen in our rain gauges in recent years: extreme precipitation events are happening… Read More »Putting the Brakes on Stormwater Runoff

This year’s Great Backyard Bird Count—a real-time snapshot of bird populations—will take place from February 12 to 15. How many… Read More »How to Bring Home the Birds