Fluvanna Master Gardeners

Educating the Fluvanna County community to use environmentally sound and sustainable horticulture practices.

$1,000 Horticultural Scholarship Available – Applications due April 24, 2023

The Fluvanna Master Gardeners will award a $1,000 scholarship to a Fluvanna County res-
ident who plans to study horticulture or sustainable landscape management (SLM), at the
post secondary level, within the 2023-2024 academic year. The purpose of this scholarship is to promote the interest of Fluvanna County residents in creating and maintaining a healthy, sustainable environment through the study of horticulture and/or landscape management.

Click HERE to see eligibility information and the application form. Application deadline is April 24, 2023.

Related Materials

FMG Horticulture Scholarship Application (Word format)
 Download
FMG Horticulture Scholarship Application (PDF format)
 Download

Boxwood Greenery and Boxwood Blight – ALERT

Click here for attached alert  Boxwood Greenery
I wanted to share this (see attachment from VT Plant Clinic above) with those that might be impacted by boxwood blight, and it’s incursion due to holiday decorations.  Please share with anyone you feel appropriate.
Given Fluvanna County has lots of boxwoods in our landscape plantings, and a strong historical holiday “feel”, this is timely for us.
John G. Thompson
Extension Agent, Agriculture and Natural Resources
VCE Fluvanna Unit
P.O. Box 133
132 Main Street
Palmyra, VA 22963
Phone: 434.591.1950
Fax: 434.591.1951

Impatiens Downy Mildew Fact Sheet

Subject: impatiens downy mildew fact sheet

Dear VCE  Agents,

We wanted to alert you to a new electronic VCE fact sheet on impatiens downy mildew at the following url: http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/PPWS/PPWS-19/PPWS-19.html. The fact sheet includes information on the disease, as well as a list of helpful web resources on this disease. We hope you will find this to be a useful resource.

Mary Ann and Elizabeth

---
Plant Disease Clinic
106 Price Hall
Dept. of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0331

Resources to help handle emerging ornamental diseases

Dear Colleagues:

 

As the 2013 season starts, there will be a lot of questions from farmers, garden centers and landscapers as well as Master Gardeners and the public about rose rosette disease (RRD), boxwood blight, impatiens downy mildew and other emerging ornamental diseases.  On behalf of the ornamental pathology team, I am sending the following web resource links to help you handle the questions that you may be asked. Please share them with your Master Gardeners and clientele.

 

Rose Rosette Disease e-book http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/450/450-620/450-620.html

Box blight fact sheet http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/PPWS/PPWS-4/PPWS-4.html

Recording of recent Box blight update webinar (ANLA, 2013) http://www.anla.org/knowledgecenter/premium/index.cfm?view=player&colid=112&cid=324&mfid=5538&StartNum=1

Impatiens downy mildew webinar (ANLA, 2012) http://www.anla.org/knowledgecenter/premium/index.cfm?view=player&colid=112&cid=364&mfid=5473&StartNum=1

 

If you have any questions/suggestions or receive questions that are not covered in the above web resources, forward them to me, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, or Norm.  We will do everything we could to help you out.

 

 

Chuan

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Chuan Hong

Professor of Plant Pathology

Hampton Roads Agricultural Research & Extension Center

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++