Continuing Education Opportunities
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7th Annual Native Plant Symposium - February 8, 2025 $40 In person, Early Bird Special until January 1, 2025. $25 On-line. Details: Prince William Conservation Alliance website
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VCE Louden Master Gardeners presents: Plant Nurture Grow - 14th Annual Gardening Symposium, Saturday, March 22, 2025, 9:00 am to 3:00pm Details
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Here are a few more webinars, thanks to Jan Smith, to help you with your Continuing Education hours:
* Virginia Native Plant Society recorded webinars from all of the chapter's programs.
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* Maryland Native Plant Society recorded webinars
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* VA Master Naturalist "High Five for Nature," short webinars featuring 5 species of plants, animals and insects.
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* The Ohio State has a number of recordings on a variety of subjects, as well as written documents of interest.
* Plant Virginia Natives Organization
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* Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) Video Library offers a variety of video on topics geared to both beginner and more advanced gardeners. Examples of topics include:
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Fall Cover Crops and Soil
Firewise Landscaping
Pressure Canning
Cedar Apple Rust
Common Diseases in the Home Garden
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* The Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardener YouTube channel has instructional videos (most are over five years old.
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* Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond hosts online and in-person classes that require a fee. This is an amazing world class garden practically in our own backyard.
* Penn State Extension offers a number of fee-based online classes.
* The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers webinars and other events. ​
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* The State Arboretum of Virginia (Blandy Experimental Farm at the University of Virginia) provides a list of deer resistant (or not!) and invasive plant information.
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* The Mt. Cuba Center, a native plant garden in Delaware, has a series of excellent fee-based Online Classes and Classes on Demand.
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* American Horticultural Society (AHS) maintains a substantial number of "Lifelong Learning Educational Sessions," featuring celebrated horticulturists and plant professionals. All of the sessions count towards RAMGA Continuing Education hours. If you become an AHS member, in addition to its bi-monthly magazine, you will be a member of their "AHS Reciprocal Garden Network," which allows for free admission to more than 345 public garden and arboreta across the county. Boxerwood is a network member, so your Boxerwood membership card also gets you free admission to all those gardens.
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* ​Smithsonian “Let’s Talk Gardens” Webinar Series page lists upcoming free webinars, as well as a link to its several past webinars.
* Benjamin Vogt’s website has great (mostly for a fee) webinars and classes.
* Margaret Roach’s blog and podcast, “A Way to Garden” is excellent. Follow her articles in the NY Times, read her blog, sign up and receive her interviews with noted garden professionals every Sunday.
* The National Garden Bureau offers a robust series of free garden webinars (and lots of other information).