The Virginia Herb Festival

Sunflower Cottage
150 Ridgemont Rd.
Middletown, VA 22645
Phone: (540) 869-8482

The Virginia Herb Festival
2011 Schedule of Programs
Saturday June 11

9:30 AM -- “Gardening for Birds and Shade Grown Coffee” Diane Kline, SHS, GCW and Audubon Society

10:00 AM -- “ Edible Flowers” Kim Labash, Loudoun Valley Herbs

10:30 AM -- “Herbal Pastries” Patsy Carothers, Owner, Patsy’s Pastry Pizza

11:00 AM -- “Party Faire with Fresh Herbs” Executive Chef Bill Erlenbach of A la Carte Catering

11:30 AM -- “Lessons in Using Grape Seed Oil” June Martin, owner Wild Tree

12:00 PM -- “Herbs to Dye For” Lynn Hoffman, Master Gardener


12:30 PM -- “Herbal Bonsai” Mary Stickley, Master Gardener and Garden Curator, Glen Burnie / Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
1:00 PM -- Chef Tim Brogan, The Lucky Star Restaurant

2:00 PM -- “Preserving the Harvest of Fresh Herbs and Vegetables” Paula Brownlee, Master Gardener

2:30 PM -- “Flower Arrangements in Candelabras”, The Garden Club of Warren County

3:00 PM -- “Lavender Tour – Lavender Wands” Kim Labash, Owner Loudoun Valley Herbs

3:30 PM -- “How to Make Lavender Wands” Linda Kusior, Shenandoah Herb Society

4:00 PM -- “Herbal Remedies” Sondra Johnson, Nature’s Common Scents

Sunday June 12

10:00 AM -- “Aroma Therapy 101” Ruth Egli, owner Hints for Health

10:30 AM -- “Lavender Tour” Kim Labash, Owner, Loudoun Valley Herbs

11:00 AM -- Chefs Franco and Riccardo, Violino Restorante Italiano

12:30 PM -- “Pestos and Pairings” Dean Morgan, General Manager, Shenandoah County Fair Association

1:30 PM -- “Culinary Herbs, Know Them, Grow Them and Use Them” Ed Matthews, Owner, One Block West Restaurant

3:00 PM -- Chef Tim Brogan, The Lucky Star Restaurant


Sunflower Cottage is a full service garden center. Six greenhouses sustain seasonal plants and a large selection of herbs. Outside you will find oodles of perennials, flowering shrubs, trees and during warmer weather, the largest selection of herbs anywhere.

We are your source for bagged and bulk mulch, containers large and small, seeds, tools, combo pots, herb gardens, topiaries, vegetable plants, berry bushes, bird baths, books, well…you get the idea.

We also have retaining wall stone, raised bed stone, freestanding wall stone, patio and walk way pavers as well as natural stone. We offer how-to clinics as well as referrals to local installers.

We can help you plan a new garden or draw a complete landscape design for your home or business and install it, too.

The Cottage Gift Shop offers gifts and gardening supplies for every taste. We carry seeds, bulbs, and other supplies, as well as a variety of artistic gifts.

We have a huge selection of loose teas, and our one-of-a-kind "sniffer bar" lets you experience our teas in a whole new way.

I sooooo want to go to this....