Events, Meetings

June Meeting – Gardening Tips, Q&A and Plant Exchange

We hope you will join
The Garden Club of Weaverville
for Our June 2023 Meeting 

Tuesday, June 13th at 9:30 on the covered porch at the new Weaverville Community Center 

Program: Gardening Tips, Q&A and Plant Exchange

Please bring your gardening wisdom and plants (or a list of plants) you would like to share to this interactive meeting.

  • A brief business meeting will precede the interactive program. 
  • Instead of having a formal presentation this month we will informally share useful gardening tips & have the opportunity to seek advice from fellow gardeners. After the discussion forum, we will focus on sharing the bounty of our gardens and enjoying being together.
    •  Bring plants to share, or a list of the plants that you’d like to share.
      • Each person with plants to share will briefly tell the group about what they have to share.
      • Please label plants if possible. If a cultivar, try to include the name of the variety. (Ex: Echinacea ‘Tomato Soup’)
      • Please don’t share plants on the Western NC Invasive plant list 
      • Please go around the outside of the building to take your plants to the patio.   

The Garden Club of Weaverville is a co-ed, non-profit organization open to everyone. For more information on what we do, becoming a member or supporting the club visit our website.

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Celebrating 50 Years!

The Garden Club of Weaverville
50th Anniversary Celebration

Sunday, June 4th from 2-5 p.m.

Location: Weaverville Community Center             

Join us for the celebration!

All are invited to join the Garden Club of Weaverville as we celebrate 50 years since our founding in 1973. The anniversary celebration will take place on Sunday, June 4, 2023, from 2:00 until 5:00 p.m., at the Weaverville Community Center, which is located across the street from Lake Louise in Weaverville.

The event is free to the public, and it affords guests an opportunity to meet club members, learn more about our organization, ask club members any garden-related questions they might have, and enjoy refreshments.

In addition, three speakers will present on gardening topics. The times and descriptions of the presentations are as follows:

2:30 p.m. “50 Blooming Years”

In celebration of 50 years of beautifying the town of Weaverville, club member Susan Dunbar will review the history of the Garden Club of Weaverville from its inception through the present. She’ll also discuss the current activities of the club. These include maintenance of the downtown gardens and the Pollinator Habitat Garden located in the Main Street Nature Park, donations to support worthy horticultural groups in the area, garden consultations for club members, outings to gardening-related places of interest, and monthly informative programs that are open to the public. 

3:00 p.m. “My Urban Food Garden”

Club member Kathleen Kasben, who appreciates the joy of working with nature and partaking of its wonderful bounty, will discuss the practical aspects of bringing the vision of her full-sun 1/4-acre vegetable, herb, and berry garden to life over the past nine years. Among the subjects she’ll touch on are building water catchment for water storage and use in her garden, using metal troughs for raised beds and ground-level asparagus and onion patches, and filling those troughs with cover crops for the winter.  

3:30 p.m. “My Family Heritage Garden”

Local gardener and artist Joel Cole will discuss how surviving family artifacts and generational influence have inspired him while gardening in Faer Hill, his downtown Weaverville cottage garden. The garden, which surrounds the century-old house that once belonged to his grandparents, became Joel’s after he returned home to Weaverville from New York and bought the property in the 1990s. The garden now comprises an artist studio and several separate rooms, including a potager garden, an Asian garden, and a water garden.

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The Garden Club of Weaverville is a co-ed, non-profit organization open to everyone. For more information on what we do, becoming a member or supporting the club visit our website.

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May Meeting – Rose Garden Tour

The Garden Club of Weaverville
May 2023 Meeting (for Club Members Only)

Tuesday, May 9th at 10:00am

Location: Buncombe County Extension Office                                  

Program: Rose Garden Tour

Judy Deutsch has been part of the Rose Garden since its inception in 2018.  With 64 rose bushes representing 20 different varieties, she’ll have plenty to show us and talk about. As the Rose Garden leader, she’s surrounded by the flowers she loves because their fragrance can fill a room, the diverse colors are never-ending and they have a long blooming season.  Judy will cover how to grow and care for these wonderful plants with a short power point inside the center followed by a tour of the rose garden. 
“The key to success is to plant roses in full sun and give them the right amount of water,” said Judy looking out across the Rose Garden.
 

A business meeting will follow the program.

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The Garden Club of Weaverville is a co-ed, non-profit organization open to everyone. For more information on what we do, becoming a member or supporting the club visit our website.

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April Meeting – Mushrooms, Master Decomposers

The Garden Club of Weaverville
April 2023 Meeting 

Tuesday, April 11th at 10:00am

Location: Weaverville Community Center (covered terrace) 60 Lakeshore Drive

Program: Mushrooms – Master Decomposers
For the cook, landscaper, and gardener, we’ll dive into the superpowers of mushrooms, our primary decomposers. Mysterious to many, coveted by those who know, we’ll discuss ones we can grow at home, how to grow them, and where to place them to thrive in the integrated landscape.
 
CEO, author, artist, and earth dweller, our speaker Keri Evjy supports ecology by uplifting holistic land and life design solutions, being of service to the Whole, body, mind and soil. She is the founder of Healing Roots Design, LLC, a women-owned permaculture landscape design business, and Regenerative Life Design, LLC, which curates earth-centered dynamic and transformative programs, holistic curriculum and one-on-one coaching experiences. Keri is the author of the multimedia toolkit, Regenerative Life Design Playbook. She thrives in Asheville, NC.
 

A business meeting will follow the program.

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The Garden Club of Weaverville is a co-ed, non-profit organization open to everyone. For more information on what we do, becoming a member or supporting the club visit our website.

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