VNLA Field Day
Wednesday, August 19at Merrifield Garden Center at their new location Gainesville, VA 
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VNLA Summer Tour
Behind the Scenes tours of the gardens at Mount Vernon and the American Horticulture Society's Headquarters at the River Farm
Thursday, August 20
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Advanced Virginia Certified Horticulturist Exam
Friday, September 11, 2009
1-5 p.m.
at Strange's Garden Center
West Broad St
Richmond
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Basic Virginia Certified Horticulturist Exam
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Charlottesville
CLASSES: Monday and Wednesdays, 6:00-9:00 pm,
October 26, 28, November 2, 4, 9, & 11 Registration deadline: October 12, 2009
Class Registration Form Windridge Landscaping, in Afton, VA will be hosting the Review Sessions. Instructors will be from PVCC, UVA, and the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service. We will need at least six people to sign up for the review sessions, in order to pay for the instructors. Monday and Wednesdays, 6:00-9:00 pm, October 26, 28, November 2, 4, 9, & 11 Registration deadline: October 12, 2009
Windridge Landscaping, in Afton, VA will be hosting the Review Sessions. Instructors will be from PVCC, UVA, and the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service. We will need at least six people to sign up for the review sessions, in order to pay for the instructors.
34th annual Nursery, Landscape and Arboricultural Field Day
of Virginia Tech's Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center (HRAREC) will be held on Wednesday,
September 9, 2009.
This year's Field Day will focus on educating attendees about current issues in the landscape, nursery, and arboricultural industries. The Hampton Roads Nursery and Landscape Association will again run their silent auction.
Two sessions with concurrent topics will run from 8:30 a.m. until noon when lunch will be served. Among the topics to be covered are invasive insect, disease, and weed pests, ergonomic tools, development of a sustainable garden, and phytoremediation work using plants to clean storm water runoff. After lunch there will be a tour of the turf plots and research.
Pre-registration will be $25, and on-site registration will be $30. This is a commercial, not a consumer or homeowner field day.
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TO: VNLA Summer Tour Participants
Important Updates for you!
This is to confirm your reservation for the VNLA Summer Tour on Thursday, August 20
For lunch at Mount Vernon, you have 3 entree choices.
PLEASE Select you choice and respond by Friday, August 14, 5 p.m. with each participants name and lunch selection
Otherwise, we will select lunch for you.
If there are multiple people attending the Summer Tour with you, please pass this on to them to select their lunch. We only have your email listed on the pre-registration form.
We have a 57-passenger coach bus that will be departing from Merrifield Garden Center, Gainesville at 7:30 a.m.
We will start loading at 7 a.m.
We expect to return by 6 p.m.
All participants are excepted to be riding the bus
We will have coolers on the bus with water available between stops
We will start the tours at Mount Vernon and at the River Farm with guided tours, and then you will have time to explore on your own.
Since both locations are expansive, we would like to have your cell phone number to be able to contact you if the bus is ready to go to the next location and you're not on the bus, so we can stay on schedule.
The tour is sold out - full bus!
Problems on tour day, call my cell phone 540-250-6264 MENU Choices: Two- Course Lunch includes apple or cherry pie, non-alcoholic beverage and choice of the following entrees:
Colonial Beef Pye
A hearty Crock of Beef and Vegetables topped with a Homemade Buttermilk Biscuit
Colonial Turkey Pye
A hearty Crock of Turkey and Vegetables topped with a Homemade Buttermilk Biscuit
Turkey and Bacon Caesar Salad
Crisp Romaine Lettuce tossed with cubed Roast Turkey Breast, chopped Bacon and Caesar Dressing topped with Fresh Parmesan Cheese and Croutons
THANKS!
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