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Butterflyweed, Asclepias tuburosa, photo by Helen Hamilton

Fieldtrips and Events

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Members - if you would like to be added to our email list to receive reminders of fieldtrips and meetings, please email Louise Menges and let her know.
Saturday, March 13 8:15am-3pm 2010 Horticultural Extravaganza
Our chapter will have a display at this day long event with educational classes exhibits, horticultural clubs, plant sales, experts. Our chapter president Helen Hamilton will be presenting "Gardening Relationships: Understanding the relationship and interdependencies of living organisms is very important to the success of your landscape." Registration fee is $14. See Registration Form and Class Schedule below for more details. Registration Deadline: March 8, 2010 Registration Form Class Schedule Location: York High School, 9300 George Washington Highway, Yorktown, VA Volunteers Needed: Call Helen Hamilton at 757-564-4494 to sign up to help man chapter's display booth and tell others about native plants! Back to Top
Thursday, March 18 at 7-9 pm: Chapter Meeting: Ferns in the Landscape
Guest speaker Jim Orband will be speaking about ferns and their adaptability for landscaping. Please see Meetings for details and to see the fern handouts ahead of time. Location: Yorktown Public Library on Rt. 17 and Battle Rd. in Yorktown. Back to Top
Saturday, March 20 at 10:00 am: Potting Party, Newport News
The hostess is Charlotte Boudreau. Bring plants to pot or come and help pot and label plants for our annual plant sale, Plants Galore. Call Charlotte Boudreau at (757) 596-2524 for directions. (Rain date: Monday, March 22 at 10am) If you have native plants but cannot come to the potting party, contact Joan Etchberger at (757) 566-1884 or Lucile Kossodo (757) 565-0769 and we can pick them up. If you need help digging them up, please call us and we can help. Join the Fun... Check the dates for more Potting Parties and other ways to help with the plant sale! Back to Top
Saturday, March 20 at 10:00 am: Spring Wildflower Walk - Gloucester
A fieldtrip to Gloucester's Tripetala site where bloodroot, hepatica, Dentaria laciniata (cut-leaved toothwort), and other woodland blooms are often in abundance this time of year. Trip leader is Mary Hyde Berg. (Rain date: April 3 at 10am) Please register and get directions by calling Mary at (804)693-3568 between 7 am and 8:30 pm. (If messages are not returned, please call again.) Back to Top
Thursday, March 25 at 2:00 pm: Potting Party, James City County
The host is Al Davidoff. Bring plants to pot or come and help pot and label plants for our annual plant sale, Plants Galore. Call Al Davidoff at (757) 345-5034 for directions (in Ford's Colony). (Rain date: Monday, March 29 at 2pm) If you have native plants but cannot come to the potting party, contact Joan Etchberger at (757) 566-1884 or Lucile Kossodo (757) 565-0769 and we can pick them up. If you need help digging them up, please call us and we can help. Join the Fun... Check the dates for more Potting Parties and other ways to help with the plant sale! Back to Top
Tuesday, March 30 at 10:00 am: Potting Party, Williamsburg
The hostess is Ada Lou Turner. Bring plants to pot or come and help pot and label plants for our annual plant sale, Plants Galore. Call Ada Lou at (757) 220-0929 for directions. (Rain date is Wednesday, March 31 at 10am.) If you have native plants but cannot come to the potting party, contact Joan Etchberger at (757) 566-1884 or Lucile Kossodo (757) 565-0769 and we can pick them up. If you need help digging them up, please call us and we can help. Join the Fun... Check the dates for more Potting Parties and other ways to help with the plant sale! Back to Top
Thursday, April 1 at 1 pm: Potting Party, White Marsh area
The hosts are Joyce and Hayes Williams. Bring plants to pot or come and help pot and label plants for our annual plant sale, Plants Galore. Call Joyce and Hayes Williams at cell(804) 694-6235 home (804) 693-4417for directions. (Rain date: Saturday, April 3 at 1pm) If you have native plants but cannot come to the potting party, contact Joan Etchberger at (757) 566-1884 or Lucile Kossodo (757) 565-0769 and we can pick them up. If you need help digging them up, please call us and we can help. Join the Fun... Check the dates for more Potting Parties and other ways to help with the plant sale! Back to Top
Saturday, April 3 at 10:00 am: Spring Wildflower Walk - YRSP
A fieldtrip to York River State Park where we'll be looking for trailing arbutus and other early spring bloomers like paw paw, dogwood and golden ragwort. There is a small entrance fee into the park, so carpooling is suggested. Trip leader is Phillip Merritt. Please register by calling Phillip Merritt at (757)604-1026 or emailing him at vnpsfieldtrips@gmail.com. Back to Top
Saturday, April 10 at 10:00 am: Spring Wildflower Walk - Gloucester
A fieldtrip to Summerfield's Wild Area to search for trailing arbutus, a dainty, fragrant, ground-clinging shrub. Jack-in-the pulpit and other delights of the spring acid woods are often sited in this area. Trip leader is Mary Hyde Berg. (Rain date: April 17 at 10am) Please register and get directions by calling Mary at (804)693-3568 between 7 am and 8:30 pm. (If messages are not returned, please call again.) Back to Top
Saturday, April 10 - all day: CNU Gardening Symposium
Our chapter will have a display at this day long event with educational classes exhibits, horticultural clubs, plant sales, experts. Location: Ferguson Center, Newport News, VA Call 757-594-7568 to Register. Volunteers Needed: Call Helen Hamilton at 757-564-4494 to sign up to help man chapter's display booth and tell others about native plants! Back to Top
Sunday, April 11 at 1:00 pm: Sandy Bottom Creek Park Walk - NN
A fieldtrip to Sandy Bottom Creek Park in Newport News to look for blooms of sweetleaf as well as Jack-in-the-pulpit and houstonia. Trip leader is Phillip Merritt. Please register by calling Phillip Merritt at (757)604-1026 or emailing him at vnpsfieldtrips@gmail.com. Back to Top


Annual Plant Sale: Plants Galore 2010
Saturday, April 24, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm: Native Plant Sale: John Clayton Chapter and the James City County/Williamsburg Master Gardeners will sell native and ornamental plants including flowers, ferns, vegetables, herbs, shrubs, small trees, and house plants. Seeds, gardening supplies and blue bird houses will also be sold. Please, no early birds - the doors open to the public at 10 am on Saturday! Cash and checks only. Location: Williamsburg Community Building, 401 N. Boundary St. (across from the Williamsburg Regional Library). The parking garage next to the Community Bldg. offers free parking. Click here for Directions Members, we need your help! Host a potting party. Attend one or all of the potting parties (Please see March 20, 25, Apr. 1 and 2.) Donate local native plants for the sale. Help transport plants to the sale. Volunteer on Friday to help set-up for the sale from 11am-4pm. Deliver plants between 11am and 2pm Friday! We will set-up the interior of the building and store the plants that will be placed outside the next morning. All these volunteers will be able to buy 3 native plants before the sale opens to the public on Saturday, 24th. Volunteer to arrive 7-10 am to set-up outside, to arrive prior to 10am to assist with the sale, or to help with the clean-up at 4-5pm. If you arrive prior to the beginning of the sale, you will also be able to buy 3 native plants before the sale opens to the public on Saturday, 24th. John Clayton members and Master Gardeners are to arrive early for set up and stay until 5pm for clean up. For next year's sale: we need members to start plants from seed beginning in the summer and fall. Back to Top	Note earlier starting time! 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Saturday, April 24 Members, please deliver plants on Friday, the 23rd 11am-2pm. Volunteers, please note: We offer those who host a potting party, the choice of a free Native Plant from our John Clayton sale before the sale begins. We offer those who help with the sale (i.e. set-up, selling, clean-up, transporting plants) will be able to buy 3 native plants before the sale opens to the public on Saturday, 24th. If you have native plants but cannot come to the potting party, contact Joan Etchberger at (757) 566-1884 or Lucile Kossodo (757) 565-0769 and we can pick them up. If you need help digging them up, please call us and we can help. Let’s make this the greatest plant sale ever. We need your Help! For more information or to sign up to help, call Joan Etchberger at (757) 566-1884 or Lucile Kossodo (757) 565-0769.

Saturday, May 1 at 10:00 am: Quail Habitat Planting Day - NQP
New Quarter Park quail habitat planting day - bring your own shovels and work gloves; we will be digging in established perennials. This is joint project of New Quarter Park (York County), Williamsburg Bird Club, Three-Rivers Historic Master Naturalists, Soil and Water Conservation District and John Clayton Chapter. Call Cynthia Long for more details: 757-229-9559. Back to Top

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John Clayton Chapter of the VNPS, P.O. Box 1128, Williamsburg, VA 23187, www.claytonvnps.org