Plant Native! Festival
Sat, Oct 21
|Glen Allen
Keep Henrico Beautiful hosts their 2nd annual Plant Native! Festival celebrating native plants and their VA growers! We'll be brining over 70+ species to this event, with lots of VA ecotypes available (look for the copper metallic dot on the sign!).
Time & Location
Oct 21, 2023, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Glen Allen, 3400 Mountain Rd, Glen Allen, VA 23060, USA
About the event
Vendor Fair: 10 am-2 pm
10:30-11:00 Starting Native Seeds: The Lazy Gardener’s Way with Bland Goddin, Keep Henrico Beautiful Committee Member
11:15 – 12:15 Native Tree Panel in conjunction with Celebrate Virginia Native Trees Month
1:00 – 1:30 Plant This Not That with Sheryl Smith, Certified Virginia Master Naturalist Volunteer
Keynote Speaker @ 2:30pm Nancy Lawson Author of The Humane Gardener and Wildscape sponsored by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management (CZM) Program
This is a free event!
Native Plant Sellers:
A Wise Gardener
Davis Natives
Good Seed Natives
Greenwitch Gardens and Native Plants
Hill House Farm & Nursery
Horticulture, ACE Center at Virginia Randolph
Local Ecotype Richmond Natives
Parallel Nursery
RVA Homegrown Natives
Woodside Paw Paw
Informational Organizations:
Box Turtle Santuary of VA
Central Virginia Waste Management Authority
Flora of Virginia Project
Future Habitats
Henrico Conservation Action Network – HCAN
Henrico County Department of Public Works
Henrico County Planning Department – HenricoNEXT
Henrico County Public Library
Henrico Environmental Action Resource Team – H.E.A.R.T
Henrico Extension Office/Henrico Master Gardeners
Henricopolis Soil and Water Conservation District
James River Association – rain barrel workshop information to come
Maymont Foundation
PlanRVA
Plant RVA Natives
Pocahontas Chapter – Virginia Native Plant Society
Sierra Club
Truetimber Arborists
Virginia Bluebird Society
Virginia Master Naturalists – Riverine Chapter
Virginia State University
Wetland Studies and Solutions
Wild Ones – Greater Richmond Virginia Chapter
Non-Plant Sellers:
Rabbit & Wren
Sativa’s Garden LLC
Tiny Vegan