A free public program on “Propagation of Native Plants” is being offered by the Northern Neck Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society on Thursday, April 16 beginning at 12:30 at Heathsville – Rice’s Hotel Hughlett’s Tavern. We will have a brief social period and light refreshments starting at noon and our popular Plant of the Month presentation. The speaker will be Pat Lust, a native plant propagator extraordinaire, and retired Longwood University professor.