Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants

12/08/2023

10/17/2023

Did you know that there were thousands of apple varieties available in nineteenth-century America? More than a dozen of these were cultivated at Monticello during Thomas Jefferson's lifetime.🍎🍏

Want to learn more? Join us for a special Apple and Cheese Tasting event on Sunday, November 5, at 1:00 p.m.

You'll have unique opportunity to taste and compare heirloom and conventional apples, cheeses selected and presented by the Wegmans culinary team, sample Monticello’s private label hard cider made in partnership with Castle Hill Cider, and learn more about the history of apples from cidermaker and author, Diane Flynt.

Get your tickets now: bit.ly/45uGwIr

04/03/2023

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This month on A Rich Spot of Earth, we look at the practice of shipping and planting bare root plants, a Monticello March tradition. We also feature three of our favorite spring ephemerals -- Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), staff favorite Twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla), and Virginia Bluebells (...

03/13/2023

02/19/2023

It's that cool-weather veggie time! Sow your garden with history.

Shop our Cool-Weather veggies: bit.ly/3jMzzRy

02/14/2023

Celebrate Earth Day and Historic Garden Week with a visit to Monticello’s plant nursery, the Center for Historic Plants, set within inspiring display gardens in their full spring glory. Shop for plants, enjoy guided garden tours, hear scheduled talks from plant experts, and ask our knowledgeable staff your gardening questions.

We look forward to seeing you there!

April 22 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

01/31/2023

Welcome to "A Rich Spot of Earth," Monticello's podcast about Thomas Jefferson, gardening, and the natural world. In this inaugural episode, Monticello's gardeners and groundskeepers look at seeds — one of the most elemental building blocks of the garden — and seed saving, while sharing stories,...

01/25/2023

Interested in the theory and practice of historic landscape preservation? Join us for the Historic Landscape Institute, June 18-23, 2023. 🌻

Designed to fit a variety of interests and educational backgrounds ranging from amateur to professional in the fields of horticulture, history, and landscape architecture, this program uses landscapes designed by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and the University of Virginia as case studies and outdoor classrooms.
Participants receive forty hours of instruction that includes lectures, walking tours, workshops, field trips, and hands-on experience. Upon completing the program, graduates are named Harrison Fellows of the Historic Landscape Institute.

Applications must be received by March 1, 2023. Learn more at monticello.org/hli

12/24/2022

May your Christmas be, as Thomas Jefferson described it in 1762, "the day of greatest mirth and jollity."

Monticello closes today, December 24, at 2:00 p.m. ET and will be closed all of Christmas Day. We will reopen at 8:30 a.m. ET on Monday, December 26. Please join us!