There’s no denying… (3/12/2025) - Spring is just around the corner. Please photograph and send your signs of spring to editor@gazettejournal.net. Five bald eagles visited Susan Nottingham’s yard overlooking the Piankatank River; this one stayed… …Prepare to weather the spring storm season (3/5/2025) - Spring is known for bringing an increased risk for lightning, hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, flash floods and more. During Virginia’s Severe Weather Awareness Week, March 10-14, officials encourage residents to… …
Circle’s 28th birthday (3/5/2025) - The Chesapeake Bay Circle of The King’s Daughters and Sons celebrated its 28th birthday on Thursday in the fellowship hall of New Point Friends Church. Faye Hutchinson (left) is the… …Protect your back! (3/5/2025) - Spring will arrive in about two weeks, and gardeners are ready to get back to work cleaning up winter debris and preparing the beds. It is time for a quick… …
Award-winning floral designer togive presentation in Gloucester (3/5/2025) - The Garden Club of Gloucester and Mathews will host a flower-arranging presentation and afternoon party on Thursday, March 13, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Fine Arts Museum of Gloucester,… …
Signs of spring and other things (3/5/2025) - The calendar keeps rolling along and a hard winter will have to disappear soon. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. A flock of turkeys visited Andrea Walker; her photo shows… …Purple Martins return to Virginia (2/26/2025) - In a sure sign that spring is not far behind, the first Purple Martins of the year have been spotted in Virginia, according to a release from the Purple Martin… …
A new fungal disease of ornamentals (2/26/2025) - “Oh, great,” I thought when I read the brief article on the Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program Facebook page, “Just what we all need, another fungal disease of ornamentals.”… …
A big snow (2/26/2025) - For once, we got the works. Thank you for your great photos. We will return to flowers next week! Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. Birds at the feeders of… …
Master Naturalists (2/19/2025) - Board members of the Middle Peninsula Chapter of Virginia Master Naturalists met last week for a retreat. At that time, the new board members for 2025 officially began their terms… …How to begin composting (2/19/2025) - In last week’s “Gardening Corner,” I wrote about some of the benefits of home composting: the creation of healthy organic material that will enrich the soil in your garden without… …
Three Gloucester properties, art museum, featured on this year’s tour (2/19/2025) - Three Gloucester properties will be open Saturday, April 26, as Historic Garden Week begins its perennial springtime in Virginia display of notable homes and properties. Garden Week, which began in… …Seasonal confusion (2/19/2025) - Is winter lasting forever? Is spring coming soon? How much snow will fall? We don’t know the answers, but we do welcome your photos. Please send them to editor@gazettejournal.net. Doug… …
New members welcomed (2/12/2025) - The York River Circle of The King’s Daughters and Sons welcomed two new members during its Feb. 4 meeting at Severn Church, Gloucester. Shown, from left, are new member Lou… …Why bother to compost? (2/12/2025) - One of the most difficult truths for new gardeners to grasp is that gardening is hard work. Most gardening programs on TV don’t show the digging, planting, sweating, fighting off… …
Potpourri (2/12/2025) - Winter birds, the first daffodils (hooray), beautiful camellias, Valentines and more: happy mid-February. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. A blue jay and broad-winged hawk are frequent visitors at the… …
Nellie Thornton sacrificed all in a time of war (2/5/2025) - When her country needed her, Cornelia Elizabeth Thornton of Bena signed up. She sailed to England on the SS Olympic as a member of the army nursing corps in 1918,… …
Gardening seminar to examinewelcoming fireflies to the yard (2/5/2025) - Alyssa Ford Morel will give a talk titled “The Hospitable Gardener: Welcoming Fireflies and Other Creatures to Your Yard” at this year’s Gardening in the Northern Neck seminar on Saturday,… …Flowers that are here and gone (2/5/2025) - Last Sunday, I walked outside to look at the condition of the herb garden after some of the coldest winter weather in years. I was pleased to see new green… …
Winter medley (2/5/2025) - Friends, the cold weather is still with us, and we continue to welcome your photos of natural beauties, indoors and out. You know and we know that it won’t be… …
P.E.O. Game Day (1/29/2025) - P.E.O. Chapter BT of Mathews hosted a Game Day on Monday, Jan. 20, welcoming P.E.O. members from Chapters BW-Gloucester and Chapter CA-Gloucester/Mathews, along with community friends, at the Kingston Parish… …Do slugs eat daffodils? (1/29/2025) - At a recent meeting of local daffodil lovers, I overheard my friend, Tammy, telling other members about a slug attack on a daffodil grower’s plants. I joined the conversation, and… …
Gloucester Daffodil Club members had busy 2024 planting season (1/29/2025) - The Gloucester Daffodil Club was busy during the 2024 daffodil planting season of November and December. Members planted over 7,300 daffodil bulbs at local businesses, churches, and schools, bringing the… …Brighter days (1/29/2025) - The past couple of weeks have brought bitterly cold weather, and birdlife has huddled up to get through. Now the weather is generally improving and days are longer. Please send… …
Preservation Virginia conductingsurvey to ID threatened historic places (1/22/2025) - Preservation Virginia is conducting its annual drive to identify historic places under threat of being lost. The list of Virginia’s Most Endangered Historic Places raises awareness of historic sites around… …