


Knights to hold Italian Feast in Topping (3/30/2022) - The Knights of Columbus, Council 11210, will host its 13th annual Italian Feast at 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, at the Church of the Visitation, Route 33, Topping. Dinner… …



Add perennials to your garden (3/23/2022) - Spring has arrived and what a welcome visitor she is! She will stay for just a few weeks, then quietly leave to make way for her hotter, flashier sister. For… …
Bradford pear is in the news again (3/16/2022) - An email about Bradford pear trees from fellow Master Gardener Rose Sullivan and an article in the newspaper concerning a North Carolina bounty on Bradford pears revived my interest in… …
Commotion on the creek (3/16/2022) - Timberneck Creek was at low tide on the afternoon of Sunday, March 6. The herons take advantage of this opportunity to catch their dinner. On this day, a large shad… …
Can you feel spring coming? (3/9/2022) - While indoor bloomers continue to delight us, we can’t help but watch the unfolding display of color outdoors. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. What says “spring” more than daffodils?… …
Free children’s daffodil arranging offered during festival (3/9/2022) - A children’s daffodil arranging event, sponsored by the Garden Club of Gloucester, will be held next month in conjunction with the Gloucester Daffodil Festival at Arts on Main. Children ages… …
Undesirable tree invaders (3/9/2022) - In last week’s column, I wrote about bagworms, unwelcome pests that build nests that look like upside-down ice cream cones in evergreens and some hardwoods. Homeowners often refer to all… …

Bagworms on evergreens, revisited (3/2/2022) - An interesting email last week from a curious reader prompted me to review a topic I last wrote about in 2014: bagworms, insects we all despair of finding on our… …

Quilt exhibit (3/2/2022) - Bay Quilters of Mathews had the opportunity to exhibit challenge quilts on the theme “Black and White” in last week’s Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show held in Hampton. Works of members shown… …
Birds, bees, blooms (2/23/2022) - Signs of spring are peeking through the last weeks of winter. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. Julie Shields of Hayes sent her first daffodil of the season. Camellia japonica… …

How to prune evergreens (2/23/2022) - Discussion of tree and shrub pruning would be incomplete if we neglected to examine some basics of evergreen pruning. Native and exotic, mostly Asian, species of evergreens grow in yards… …
AARP TaxAide services ongoing (2/23/2022) - The Middle Peninsula AARP TaxAide group has begun its tax services at Gloucester Library (Main Street Center), Mathews Memorial Library, Bethany United Methodist Church in Gloucester Point, and the Cryer… …

Winter beauty (2/16/2022) - Our readers continue to brighten our pages even as frigid and cloudy days intrude on the promise of spring. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. Julie Shields of Hayes found… …

Deciduous tree, shrub pruning (2/16/2022) - Last week’s column covered a few tree pruning basics related to proper equipment use and care and safety and injury prevention. Basic pruning always includes removal of dead, damaged, or… …