Landscape Love

Turf Love

What is Turf Love? It's a collaboration between James City County, the Colonial Soil and Water Conservation District (CSWCD), and Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Master Gardeners, where trained Master Gardener volunteers teach homeowners how to produce healthy turf while reducing the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and insecticides through public workshops and home visits. For more information, please visit the CSWCD website. Watch this short video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP9P8Np4Cgw. Download an application: www.colonialswcd.org/turf-love.

Landscape Love

The James City County Williamsburg Master Gardeners Association is pleased to offer our ever-popular Landscape Love Program, a free garden evaluation to you in your own garden.

Common requests involve identifying plants, gardening problems, and suggesting plants that meet a specific need such as sun, shade, or deer resistance.  It should be noted our VCE-certified Master Gardener Volunteers can recommend plants, but do not create landscape designs or address property drainage issues.  Our visits are plant and soil focused.

Submit the form below and we will get back to you to set up a time for your free consultation.  We look forward to helping you grow your garden!

 

Pruning Clinics

This program provides workshops and pruning lessons for individuals and small neighborhood groups, as well as workshops for the general public. The program promotes sustainable landscapes that improve the environment. During clinics, 2-4 Master Gardeners provide hands-on instruction in the maintenance of shrubs and small trees. Instruction from the Master Gardeners is intended to guide the homeowner who is responsible for the on-site pruning. Visits are typically scheduled for the winter and early spring and a limited number of visits are made available on a first-come-first-served basis. 

Tree Call

This program was designed to help homeowners with issues concerning trees. Volunteers for this program are Master Gardeners who have also taken advanced training and received their Tree Steward certification. After an issue has been received through the Help Desk (757-564-2175), these master gardener tree stewards, in 2-3 person teams, visit the home to better define the issue and take samples that are sent to Virginia Tech (VT) for analysis. A final report is sent to the homeowner which includes action recommendations.