GARDENING RESOURCES
VCE Publications
The Virginia Cooperative Extension provides a variety of useful publications in the following categories:
Lawn & Garden
- Annuals, Perennials, & Bulbs
- Native & Solitary Bees in Virginia
- Fruits & Vegetables
- Garden Insects & Pests
- Garden & Landscape Design
- Garden Plant Disease
- Gardening & the Environment
- Indoor Plants
- Lawns
- Tools & Techniques
- Trees, Shrubs, & Groundcovers
- Turf & Garden
Crops & Soil
- Agricultural Insects Pests
- Small Fruits
- Tree Fruits
- Grains
- Wine Grapes
- Pasture & Forage (Animal Agriculture)
- Pesticide Safety Education
- Building Healthy Soil
- Vegetables & Specialty Crops
- Weed Management
Environment & Natural Resources
- Emergency Preparedness
- Energy
- Agriculture Energy
- Environmental Quality
- Fisheries
- Forestry
- Mined Land Reclamation
- Natural Resources
- Wildlife
- Wood Products
Nursery, Greenhouse, & Turf
Other Central Virginia Online Gardening Resources
The following websites also provide reliable, science-based information on a wide range of gardening topics.
Gardening & Horticulture
- Pest Management Guide (2019) for Virginia
- Biorationals Database
Native Plants
- Piedmont Virginia Native Plant Database
- Native Plants for Conservation, Restoration, & Landscaping
- Native Plants for Planned Landscapes (Lady Bird John Wildflower Center)
- Virginia Native Plant Finder (Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation)
Invasive Plants
- Virginia Invasive Plant Species List (Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation)
- Non-Native Invasive Plants of Concern in the Central Rappahannock & Regional Native Alternatives (Plant Virginia Natives)
- Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas ( National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
- Managing Invasive Alien Plants in Natural Areas, Parks, & Small Woodlands (Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation)
- Garden Escape Artists (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- How to Control Invasive Plants (Manual, Mechanical, & Biological Methods) (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Controlling Invasive Plants Effectively & Safely with Herbicides (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Non-Native Invasive Plant Species Control Treatments (Virginia Department of Forestry)
- Autumn Olive (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Chinese Privet (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Garlic Mustard (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Japanese Honeysuckle (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Japanese Stiltgrass (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Kudzu (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Mile-a-minute Vine (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Multiflora Rose (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Oriental Bittersweet (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Porcelain-berry (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Tree-of-heaven or Paradise Tree (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Wavyleaf Grass or Wavyleaf Basketgrass (Blue Ridge PRISM)
- Wavyleaf Grass Flyer (Blue Ridge PRISM)
Plant Pathology & Pest Management
- Learning Module I: Integrated Pest Management (Virginia Cooperative Extension Video)
- Learning Module II: The Plant Disease Triangle (Virginia Cooperative Extension Video)
- Boxwood Blight Task Force
Wildlife
- Center for Human-Wildlife Conflict Resolution
- Snakes of Virginia (Virginia Herpetological Society)
- Virginia Snake Identification Guide (Virginia Herpetological Society)
- Common Ticks of Virginia
- Tick-borne Disease Flyer
- Nuisance Wildlife Trappers (Department of Game & Inland Fisheries)
Soil
Insects
- Insect Identification Lab at Virginia Tech
- Emerald Ash Borer
- Emerald Ash Borer Treatment Program (Virginia Department of Forestry)
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- Control of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug with Insecticide-Treated Window Screens
- Spotted Lanternfly
- Residential Control for Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) in Virginia
- Spotted Lanternfly Life Cycle in Virginia
- Possible Spotted Lanternfly Adult Look-alikes in Virginia
- Spotted Lanternfly in Virginia Vineyards
Weeds
- Weed Management in Lawns (University of California)
Lawn
- A Virginian’s Year-Round Guide to Yard Care (Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation)