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2010

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• House Tours
• Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center and Smith Education Center
• Gardens and Grounds Tours
• Plantation Community Tours
• Evening Signature Tours
• Family Friendly Tours
• Behind-the-Scenes Tours

Special Events

Aug. 7

Evenings in the Courtyard
Evenings in the Courtyard brings music and wine to the Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center for a relaxing evening immersed in Jefferson. Pre-order a boxed dinner or select from the on-site menu of the Café at Monticello and enjoy the wines of the Monticello Wine Trail while listening to musical entertainment in the Courtyard. View the film, Thomas Jefferson’s World, in the theater and explore the Robert H. and Clarice Smith Gallery, featuring four new galleries. Take a quiet stroll in the Gardens where members of the Monticello Gardens staff will be on-hand to answer your questions about Jefferson’s gardens. 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. $27 (excluding food and wine).

Aug. 7

Tomato Tasting
Heirloom tomatoes are now at the height of fashion, and one can only marvel at the genetic diversity found in everyone's favorite homegrown vegetable. Tomatoes are finally being esteemed, first and foremost, for their flavor, and this participatory workshop will examine and rate a sample of varieties now available to gardeners. Maggie Stemann Thompson and Pat Brodowski, Monticello’s Vegetable Gardener, will host this two-hour workshop.Participants are encouraged to bring in their own favorite garden varieties. Reservations required. Meets at the Garden Center, Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center, 9:30 a.m. $10.

• See the results of previous Tomato Tastings.

Aug. 14

Summer Fruit Tasting
Enjoy the harvests of summer, what Thomas Jefferson referred to as "precious refreshment." On site in the Monticello Fruit Garden, Tom Burford, Peter Hatch, Gabriele Rausse, and Fruit Gardener Kerry Gilmer will entertain participants with the fruits of summer: early apples, peaches, figs, grapes, nectarines, apple cider, blackberries, pears, and others. Short talks on the history of fruit growing in Virginia will vary the menu in this informal two-hour feast in Jefferson's Fruitery. Reservations required. Meets at the Garden Center, Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center, 9:30 a.m. $10.

Aug. 21

Creating an Herbal Potpourri
CHP Nursery Manager Dennis Whetzel will demonstrate an 18th-century recipe for making potpourri from old garden roses, fragrant heirloom flowers and herbs, and exotic spices. This two-and-a-half-hour workshop will include a discussion on the use of essential oils and fixatives for long-lasting fragrance. Meets at CHP's Tufton Farm Nursery, 9:30 a.m. $10.

Aug. 28

Tour of the Visitor Center Landscape
The landscaping of Monticello’s new visitor complex, recipient of a LEED Gold Level certification, is designed to blend the buildings into the native Monticello woodlands with plantings of North American native species and cultivars, including 40 species of trees, over 50 species of flowering shrubs, and 75 types of wildflowers and groundcovers. Join Peggy Cornett and Peter Hatch for a two-hour stroll through these rich habitats from the pavilions’ green roofs through the rain-garden style greenway to the African-American Cemetery. Reservations required. Meets at the Garden Center, Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center, 9:30 a.m. $10.