I garden in a typical suburban Northern Virginia home, work full-time in a Rockville-based office, and am married with twins. I have a B.S. in horticulture from Virginia Tech and have been involved in horticultural communications for 30 years. I have written about 100 articles for Horticulture, The American Gardener, Chesapeake Home, Early American Life, Virginia Gardener, the National Gardener, Southern Living, and Birds and Blooms.
Currently, I serve as the Mid-Atlantic District Delegate for the Herb Society of America, a board position. In 2023, I completed two 2-year terms as chair/president of the Potomac Unit of the HSA. I am a member of GardenComm, a professional organization of garden communicators, and served as the National Director for Region IV of GardenComm. I write articles for the HSA blog, the GardenComm newsletter and blog, and other magazines and newsletters. I am a member of the National Capital Area Garden Clubs‘ District III Camelot Garden Club. From 2021 to 2023, I served as the blog administrator for the National Garden Clubs, Inc.
I give hands-on workshops and Powerpoint presentations on growing and using culinary herbs, edible flowers, herbs and spices for the holidays, plant propagation, and saving seeds from the garden. I have presented at the Fairfax County Public Library branches, Merrifield Garden Center, Green Spring Gardens, Brookside Gardens, the NCAGC Gardening School, and various garden clubs and master gardener groups. I also give presentations virtually, am very experienced with Zoom, and welcome invitations to speak either in person or virtually. Contact me at pegplant at yahoo dot com.
In April 2014, I created Pegplant, an online resource for gardeners in the Washington DC metro area. Pegplant offers local gardening news, resources, and information about gardening, gardens, and plants.
In March 2018, I created Pegplant’s Post Gardening Newsletter, a free, monthly e-newsletter for people interested in gardening in the Washington DC metro area. Pegplant’s Post has local gardening events; new books; advice; tips; relevant articles; a spotlight on gardening-related products, tools, seeds, or plants; and sometimes a giveaway. To subscribe, simply enter an e-mail address in the “subscribe” field on the right column of pegplant.com. Pegplant’s Post is issued on the last weekend of the month.
I initiated a Culinary Herbs and Spices Facebook group that is open to anyone but it is a private group. Please join and share your experiences growing and using herbs and spices as well as recipes.
For the green industry, I initiated the annual Capital Region Connect, a social networking event for horticulturists and landscape designers who work in the local green industry. This includes wholesale and retail nurseries, public gardens and botanical gardens, and arboreta. Capital Region Connect is a private, invitation only event for people to “connect,” network, and share with others in the Capital Region area.
I invite you to follow me on my gardening adventures as pegplant on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Pinterest.
Thank you for the publicity for National Garden Bureau.
You are welcome!
Please include our garden club in your listing: Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club, https://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/get-involved/garden-club/.
We are having a Garden Tour of 5 gardens in the Sandy Spring area on
May 18. Tickets and information are available here: https://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/programs-and-events/gardentour/
thank you for letting me know, I added the club and I had already listed the May 18 event in my monthly list of gardening events in the lectures and workshops tab on my website
Enjoyed your presentation at the Richard Byrd library. Have signed up for your newsletter.
Thank you!!
Hi Peggy, I’ve just discovered this incredible resource collection of yours and wonder if you’d like to include The Green Farmacy Garden in some of your lists? We’re in Fulton MD at the home of Jim and Peggy Duke where he’s installed a 4-terrace garden of medicinal herbs from around the world, organized by the conditions people use them for.
We offer tours and workshops all season and I’d love for your followers to have access to them if you can let me know the most efficient or convenient way to share that info!
Many thanks and toward a Greener Future,
Veri
Thanks, I sent you an e-mail directly about including your events. If you did not get it, let me know
This is great! We are landscapers of 25+ years and we wanted to subscribe to your blog because it’s so good. Thank you for all of your hard work!
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Thank you for the kind words and for following Pegplant.
trying to determine status of Williams Nursery in Sterling. This great source for plants of large selection and quality appears closed. Might anyone know if Williams Nursery has plans of opening this Spring/Summer 2022.
Thank you for reaching out to pegplant. Williams Nursery is not in business anymore. In the next day I will post April events which includes a lot of plant sales in the DC metro area.
How about a Newsletter for the Northern California Sacramento Valley area!
Good idea, someone living in California would have to write it!
Writing for the giveaway 12 variety package of micro green seed from the true leaf market.
Hi, the giveaway is for people who have subscribed to the Pegplant’s Post Gardening Newsletter so please subscribe first, it is a free monthly electronic newsletter and the sign up form is on the pegplant website