NOVA Horticulture Club Invites You to Attend a Semester’s End Field Trip to Casey Tree Farm in Berryville, VA!
Friday 12/13 10:30am- noon+, we will be limited to 20 spots. RSVP here ASAP: https://forms.gle/6qixtMbNDD6FGJULA
NOVA Horticulture Club Invites You to Attend a Semester’s End Field Trip to Casey Tree Farm in Berryville, VA!
Friday 12/13 10:30am- noon+, we will be limited to 20 spots. RSVP here ASAP: https://forms.gle/6qixtMbNDD6FGJULA
Horticulture Club Presents: A Holiday Floral Workshop with current NOVA Horticulture student Jules McDonald, 12/5 4:30-5:30pm, in LS114 in the Headhouse. This will coincide with the end of our Poinsettia Sale. RSVP here we are limiting the workshop to 15 participants: https://forms.gle/Tu33S 1PBostjsXUs7
NOVA Horticulture Club’s Annual Winter Poinsettia Sale is BACK! December 3rd and December 5th from 11am to 6pm both days.
This year we are once again partnering with the NOVA Loudoun Campus Parking Office to offer credit and debit card transactions! That’s right! No more worrying about remembering the exact amount in cash or forgetting your checkbook! Cash and check will still also be accepted.
We will be open to the public for general sale from 11 am to 6 pm on 12/3 and 12/5 in the NOVA Horticulture Program Greenhouse (located at 46447 Ankers Shop Cir, Sterling, VA 20164)
This year we have 14 premium and unique varieties, some of which won’t be found anywhere else in the area! Each 6.5″ pot is $10 and includes a hand wrapped decorative pot foil, a support stake, a protective paper sleeve, and care instructions. All profits go towards the Horticulture Club’s participation in the 2025 Leesburg Flower and Garden Festival as well as supporting education in Horticulture.
For more information contact the Horticulture Club on Instagram or by email at hortclubnvcc@gmail.com
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All are welcome to attend the First Ever- Fall Day/Career Forum at NOVA Horticulture, on 11/19/2024 from 3-5pm. This is a new event to pair with NOVA Horticulture’s Annual Career Fair which has been held every February or March since 1978 (Stay tuned for the 47th Annual Horticulture Career Fair in February 2025, details TBA).
The event for 11/19 started as a career panel for the HRT 100 class, but the overwhelmingly positive response from Industry professionals (including 5 NOVA Horticulture Alumni!), has lead to the official expansion into a Horticulture Fall Career Day which will be set up as mini exhibition/forum. See the flier and Attendee list below.
The format will be as follows:
Welcome and Introductions from 3pm-3:45pm in room LS 114
Individual and Small Group Discussions with Industry Professionals in rooms LS 114 and LS 102 from 3:50 – 5pm
Name | Company |
Richard Baker | Owner and Founder, King’s Masons Inc Hardscape |
Thomas W. Bardroff | Atrium Horticulturist, Meadowlark Gardens |
Adam Bucher | Horticulture Resource Manager, Green Spring Gardens |
Ahmed Ibrahim | Client Relationship Manager, Rossen Landscapes |
Michael Gildea, CGM |
National President, PGMS; Garden and Grounds Manager, Chevy Chase Club |
Josh Kane | President & Head Designer, Kane Landscapes |
Jonathan Kavalier | Director of Gardens, Dumbarton Oaks |
Michealanne Makuch | Conservation Coordinator, Earth Sangha |
Pat McCann | Certified Arborist, Bartlett Tree Experts |
Maureen Robinson | Founder & Head Designer, Blue House Gardens, President, APLD DC-MD-VA Chapter |
Beth Sastre | Commercial Horticulturist, Virginia Coop Extension, Loudoun Co. |
Olga Ukrainchik | Fairfax County Parks, Ellanor C. Lawrence Park |
Contact Horticulture Program Head – Anders Vidstrand for more information: avidstrand@nvcc.edu
Did you know that we have Dual Enrollment program between the NOVA Horticulture Program and the Environmental Plant Science Program at the Academies of Loudoun? They also have really great plant sales! Show your support for that program and those LCPS High School students! https://www.lcps.org/o/acl/article/1843711
NOVA’s Horticulture Club and Program is excited to announce the return of its annual plant sale to the Loudoun Campus Greenhouse greenhouse! This year, we’re selling new varieties of annuals, bedding plants, and indoor plants that we’ve never before carried! This includes more options for shade and greater color diversity. There are 11+ different types of plants to choose from including Alternanthera, Angelonia, Bacopa, Bidens, Coleus, Fuchsia, Geranium (many types), Impatiens, Lobelia, Portulaca, and Scaveola with over 40 cultivars available. Our full plant list is here: NOVA Horticulture 2024 Plant Sale Inventory / Cultivar List. Each 5.5” student-grown plant will be $10 and we can accept payment by cash or check and now (on campus only): Debit or Credit Card. The greenhouse will be open on Tuesday and Thursday, April 16th and 18th from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day. If you’re unable to come out to the Loudoun Campus greenhouse, the Horticulture Club will also be participating in this year’s Leesburg Flower and Garden Festival: https://www.leesburgva.gov/departments/parks-recreation/events/flower-garden-festival. You can find our booth at the intersection of Kings St. and Market St. in downtown Leesburg, as well as a weekend full of fun and flowers!
If you have any questions, please call or email Program Head Anders Vidstrand at avidstrand@nvcc.edu and at 703-450-2614
Hello Horticulture Program Students! The interior design program has invited you to join them on a bus trip to Winterthur in Delaware! The trip is sponsored /paid for by Student Life! Details are below:
You are invited to take a bus trip with us to lovely Winterthur Museum, Delaware, the home of Henry Francis Dupont. He was a collector of all things American and Americana and filled his giant mansion with both furniture and decorative arts as well as the architecture of the interiors from the early colonial era to the industrial revolution (and they are starting to collect beyond that as well). The gardens are also extensive and will hopefully be seeing spring flowers by mid-March. This is a great trip that our program often goes on and we are doubly lucky this time around because the cost is being absorbed by Loudoun Student Life. You will need some money for lunch, but right now, that is all.
Here is a link to the Winterthur web site: https://www.winterthur.org/ browse to find out more about the museum and gardens.
See the attached flyer with itinerary and QR code for RSVP (required):Winterthur Field Trip Flyer There are only 14 spaces left on the bus, so sign up early making sure to use your student email address.
Basic Info:
Date: Friday March 15 (this is the week of spring break, so no classes to get in the way)
Time: 7:00 am to 7:00 pm (pending traffic)
RSVP: see attached flyer, you will need to scan the QR code. Sign up only if you intend on going, we want to give everyone an opportunity and dropping out late prevents someone else from enjoying the trip.
No additional guests unless they are current NOVA students (ie you can’t bring your parents, sister or friends, sorry it’s a NOVA policy).
Questions: contact Professor Abby Lenon, alenon@nvcc.edu with questions.
Upcoming Events in Loudoun County:
Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop on February 29th. Please open the flyer to learn more about: 2024FruitTreePruningWorkshop (Landscape))
2024 Viticulture meeting and pruning contest on March 4th . This year Jiya Vineyards, a 3-year-old vineyard, will host out program and the pair pruning competition. Experts from VT AREC Winchester will be presenting. Please open the flyer to learn more about: 2024Viticultureandpruningcontest
Blueberry physiology and pruning workshop on March 7th. Our VT Small Fruit specialist, Dr. Jayesh Samtani will be presenting. Please open the flyer to learn more about: 2024 Blueberryphyandpruning
Generation NEXT Program. Generation NEXT is a VCE and VA Dept. of Forestry Program that aims to help families conduct legacy planning – estate planning for rural lands – to keep their land intact, in forest (or farm), and in family. This webinar focuses on tools for conserving working lands, primarily woodland. Cost for the webinar is $10/family. Learn more at: www.tinyurl.com/GenNextHome and here: cons-tools-one-page or reach out to Beth Sastre with any questions.
For more information contact Beth Sastre at flores69@vt.edu the Commercial Horticulturist for Loudoun County VCE