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Green Spring Garden Seeking Gardeners

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Photo: Courtesy of Green Springs Garden

Join the Green Spring Gardeners to help keep them growing and enhance garden grounds for visitor enjoyment and education. Additional volunteer gardeners are welcome to help the horticulture teams. As a volunteer gardener, you will assist with all phases of gardening including propagation, transplanting, mulching, weeding, watering and harvesting.

Qualifications:

  • Basic horticulture knowledge
  • Previous hands-on gardening experience
  • Interest in the stewardship of the county’s natural and cultural resources
  • Gardening requires lifting, bending, and stooping (you should be able to lift 25-30 lbs)
  • You will work in teams, so it is important that you work well with others and maintain a positive attitude
  • Minimum age: 18

If selected as a volunteer, you will be required to attend a site orientation and on-the-job training as required. Mandatory Volunteer Outdoor Safety and Power Tools/Equipment Training will be provided.

Hours of operation are on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Volunteer gardeners would commit to three hours per week for a period of four months.

Location: 4603 Green Spring Rd, Alexandria, VA 22312

You can sign up through the Volunteer Fairfax Site: https://volunteer.fairfaxcounty.gov/custom/1380/opp_details/187124

For more information about Green Spring Gardens: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/green-spring

Green Spring Gardens Seeks Field Trip Leaders

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Green Spring Gardens
4603 Green Spring Road, Alexandria VA

Sign up here.

The Youth and Family Education Program Coordinator at Green Spring Gardens is seeking volunteers to serve as teachers for school field trips visiting the Gardens. The field trips are two hours each and run through the school year. View the descriptions of the field trips here.

The confirmed schedule of 2022-2023 field trips is here to check the dates and to sign up. This is also where anyone can sign up to observe a field trip to show how it operates before committing to lead a station.

Questions? Contact Bailey Price at [email protected] or (703) 642-5173.

EcoSavvy Symposium – Restoring Urban Forest, February 19th

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Saturday, February 19, 2022
8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Online or in person at Green Spring Gardens, 4603 Green Spring Rd., Alexandria
Registration  703-642-5173 or online at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/parktakes (enter code H7T.BET2)

Help restore our urban forests, one yard at a time. This program will help you understand the ecological imperative to preserve and grow our tree canopy. Learn what you can do to help improve the issue of tree canopy decline throughout the region, and learn steps you can apply in your community and in your own yard to reverse this disturbing trend. A Zoom link will be emailed before the event. This virtual program is also available in person.

Keynote Speaker: Eric Wiseman, PhD, Associate Professor of Urban Forestry and Director of Virginia Big Tree Program

Also featuring Jim McGlone, PhD, Virginia Department of Forestry, and Casey Trees of Washington, DC

Presented by: VCE Green Spring Master Gardeners.

Green Spring Gardens Gate Plant Shop is Open

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Enjoy their simple, phone-in/curbside pick-up shopping experience to sate that pent-up demand for Green Spring’s outstanding seasonal selections of perennials, woodies and annuals.

1.Download this week’s plant list/order form to make your selections. (New plant lists published each Thursday so check back for new offerings.)

2.Phone in your order at 703.642.5173. Please have your completed order form, credit card and email address handy when you call. (Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm; Sunday noon-4pm.)

3.FROGS members receive a 10% discount on plant purchases–be sure to mention your membership. Or join FROGS today!

4.Curbside pick-up is available Wednesdays and Fridays, 10:30am-12:30pm or 2:00-3:30pm. We’ll confirm your order and pick-up time by email.

5.At your designated pick-up time, drive up to the Horticulture Center building and remain in your car. Plant Shop staff will load plants into your car for you. Please note: It is helpful if you have space prepared for loading before you arrive.

Please note the Green Spring Horticulture Center and Historic House and their restrooms remain closed until further notice.

Become a Virginia Master Gardener, Fall 2020!

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Green Spring Gardens Master Gardeners Unit is seeking applicants for their upcoming Fall 2020 training session. Due to COVID restrictions, they’ve developed a training program that is COVID compliant and meets the Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardener basic training for Master Gardener certification criteria. If you like gardening (you don’t have to be expert at it), if you like volunteering outdoors and/or providing outreach and education to promote eco-savvy sustainable horticultural practices, and you want to join a great group with a purpose, become a Green Spring Master Gardener! They have a wide range of projects for all abilities and interests across the county.

Green Spring Gardens, a Fairfax County Park which focuses on demonstration gardens, sponsors an Extension Master Gardener (EMG) program in cooperation with Virginia Cooperative Extension. Go online to: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/green-spring/master-gardeners and learn what EMGs do.

They are planning for a blended Master Gardener training program this fall with Covid-19 safety protocols in mind. Online modules will be part of the program so a computer or tablet with good internet service are required tools for the success of the program. They will also have weekly get-togethers via Zoom platform with speakers, labs and Q & A sessions. If they meet for hands-on labs, it will be with social distancing in mind for the safety of all participants. If you are interested in joining the Green Spring Master Gardener Training Program, please contact Pamela Smith, EMG Coordinator at [email protected] for an application and further information. Classes begin September 17.