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Extension
Offices | For your home | Plant Finder | Local Plant Associations | General
links EXTENSION
OFFICES
Got a problem? The Virginia Cooperative
Extension agent working under the guidance of Virginia Tech and a contingent of master
gardeners in your area are there to answer your gardening questions, and provide you with
free gardening literature, workshops and soil-test kits ($7) you send off to Virginia Tech
for analysis and a nutrients-needed report returned to you. Here’s how to
contact or visit your extension/master gardener office:
- Norfolk: Agent Dawn Alleman, 830
Southampton Ave., Suite 200; 683-2818; master gardener hotline, 683-2855.
- Virginia Beach: Agent Randy Jackson,
Municipal Center Building 14; 427-4769; MG hotline 427-8156.
- Portsmouth: Agent Traci Gilland, 105 Utah
St.; 393-5197.
- Suffolk: Agent Cliff Slade, 440 Market St.
923-2050/51; MG hotline, 923-2055.
- Chesapeake: Agent Lynnette Swanson, 310
Shea Dr.; 382-6348; MG hotline 382-6348.
- Hampton: Agent Jim Williams, 26 West Queens
Way; 727-1401.
- Newport News: Horticultural specialist
Scott Ewers, 12388 Warwick Blvd., Suite 307; 591-4838.
- York County: Agent Jim Orband, 100 County
Drive; 890-4940.
- James City County: Agent Ed Overton, 3127
Forge Road; 566-1367
- Gloucester: MG hotline (804) 693-1267.
- Mathews: Extension office, (804) 725-7196.
- Middlesex: Extension office (804) 758-4120.
Master gardener training. What
is a master gardener? A master gardeners receives about 50 hours of horticultural training
taught by local gardening professionals; in return, MGs work as volunteers in their
community, helping Virginia Cooperative Extension offices provide programs on home
gardening. Virginia Beach, Portsmouth and Peninsula extension offices offer MG training
each fall, once applications are received and reviewed during early summer. Other
extension offices provide training usually starting in February. Contact your local
extension office for information and an application.
Master Gardener programs; contact extension
offices: Newport News, 591-4838; Hampton, 727-1401; York, 890-4940; James City County,
566-1367; Suffolk, 923-2050; Gloucester, (804) 693-2602; Mathews, (804) 725-7196;
Middlesex, (804) 758-4120. Visit www.hort.vt.edu .
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PLANT FINDER
Looking for
a tree or shrub your garden center does not carry? Contact these mail-order/retail locator
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LOCAL
PLANT ASSOCIATIONS
Local plant associations offer a variety of activities:
regular meetings with speakers, demonstrations, tours of nearby gardens and educational
workshops. Here are some of the groups that meet in Hampton Roads:
- Butterfly Society of Virginia: 499-6789
- Colonial Virginia Chapter of American Holly Society: (804)
642-2449; www.hollysocam.org/
- Friends of Fred Heutte Foundation: 441-2513
- Garden History Society of Williamsburg: 565-4892
- Hampton Roads Bird Club: 726-0898
- Hampton Roads Horticultural Society: 723-3313
- Mac Chapter, American Rhododendron Society: 898-9159; www.rhododendron.org
- Norfolk Botanical Garden Society: 441-5830; http://sites.communitylink.org/nbg/
- Organic Gardening Club of Hampton Roads: 486-0230
- Peninsula Council of Garden Clubs: 930-0710
- Peninsula Green Breakfast: 622-1964
- Peninsula Orchid Society: 766-0102; www.orchidweb.org
- Tidewater Daylily Society: 858-5521; www.daylilies.org
- Tidewater Unit, Herb Society of America: 499-1881; www.herbsociety.org
- Tidewater Orchid Society: 220-1858; www.orchidweb.org
- Tidewater Oyster Gardeners Association: (804) 694-4407
- Tidewater African Violet Society: 479-3681; www.avsa.org
- Virginia Bonsai Society: 427-1973; www.absbonsai.org
- Virginia Camellia Society: 625-0374; www.peach.public.lib.ga.us/ACS/
- Virginia Greenhouse Society: 483-8817
- Virginia Native Plant Society, John Clayton Chapter: (804)
693-2953; www.vnps.org
- Virginia Paphiopedilum Society,
722-1850
- Virginia Peninsula Iris Society: 220-1858; www.irises.org
- Virginia Peninsula Rose Society: 851-5122; www.ars.org
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