Welcome to the website of the James City County/Williamsburg (VA) Master Gardeners. We support Virginia Cooperative Extension with a range of public outreach and educational programs serving our area, including turf and lawn, landscape, and plant disease clinics, therapeutic gardening, extension help desk, and a range of gardening projects with children. Please follow the links to your left to explore our programs. Or, use the Google search bar (below) to look for a specific topic of interest to you.

Mission of the James City County/ Williamsburg (JCC/W) Master Gardeners

The purpose of the James City County/Williamsburg  Master Gardener is to learn, educate, and communicate environmentally sound horticultural practices to the community.  Trained by the Virginia Cooperative Extension, Master Gardener volunteers are committed to offering information to the public through sustainable landscape  management educational programs.

Annual Plant Sale a success

For the second year, the MGs teamed with the John Clayton Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society to hold a plant sale at the Williamsburg Community Building. Here are some images from the planning and planting that made this a success:

Becky Sutton tending sale plants

Bird defending her nest from sale plants and their people

Nest of four eggs

Congratulations to the Master Gardener Class of 2007

Congratulations to Kari Abbott, Best Sustained Performance 3+ Years

Congratulations to Barbara Gustafson, Master Gardener of the Year 2007

Workers at Apryl's House

The workers were: Mary Louise Sadler, Rich Strenkowski, John Giffin, Barbara Gustafson, Art Gustafson, Jim Kavitz, Judy Hansen

Garden design by Peggy Krapf

Plants were donated by: Kari Abbott, Linda Lucas, Mary Louise Sadler, Anne Haltiner, Jim Pressly

Plants were also donated by the Native Plant Society and from the Master Gardener's after the plant sale.

Here's a quote from Rich Strenkowski:
The house looks terrific. The planting beds by far exceed my expectations. What a great example of an organization pulling together, using a variety of resources and accomplishing something. Thanks to all of you for your contribution to achieving the results with the landscaping efforts in spite of the problems encountered. And a special thanks to the Veggies group and the Waterwise group for assisting in the project?and to those with the foresight to retain the leftover plants from the plant sale!