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.
In the Weaverville Community Center
[60 Lakeshore Drive, Albert Weaver Room]
Our April program will take us into the underground garden world and will focus on how healthy soil promotes healthy plants. Lorri Bura will cover the principles of soil consistency and potency, and she will emphasize how plants take up nutrients and how to effectively fertilize them.
Lorri (aka Herb Mamma) is the steward of Green Heart Gardens where she grows certified organic medicinal herbs in the field and in the woods. She has been growing herbs and making medicines for over 30 years, and Herbmamma is the brand for the medicines she makes from her herb crops. Lorri is the current president of the NC Herb Association, and she teaches classes on making herbal remedies and how to grow and process herbs from the woods and the field.
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.
In the Weaverville Community Center
[60 Lakeshore Drive, Albert Weaver Room]
Carolyn Ward, CEO of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation (https://www.brpfoundation.org), will share information about the foundation’s work to help ensure the Blue Ridge Parkway is protected now and into the future. The presentation will focus on the abundant biodiversity of plants found along the parkway corridor and the role community members can play in helping to protect one of the most biodiverse places in the temperate world.
Carolyn’s distinguished career spans three decades, from field interpreter at Hungry Mother State Park to CEO of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. She was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwestern Virginia, she graduated from Emory and Henry College, and she received her master’s degree and doctorate in forestry from Virginia Tech. She is a decorated professor, an award-winning researcher, and an author whose life’s work has been dedicated to building bridges and making connections.
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.
In the Weaverville Community Center Multipurpose Room
60 Lakeshore Drive
Do you want a flower garden that delivers continuous blooms and color from spring through summer and into the fall? Gardens that offer color throughout the growing season simply require a little planning. But like most anything worthwhile, they offer tenfold back to you in their beauty and value to pollinators. Pat Sommers of Weaverville’s Natural Selections Nursery will walk us through what’s required to create, in our area, a native perennial garden with yearlong interest.
Pat studied horticulture/landscape design, including as an intern in plant breeding and plant evaluation, at the Chicago Botanic Garden, and she worked as an outdoor volunteer at the Asheville Botanical Gardens for nine years. For many years, her mother taught her about the native plants of New England while taking walks in the woods. Pat started growing natives from seed 16 years ago when she moved to our area. And since moving to Weaverville in 2015, she has been growing native plants. She has taught a number of classes on how to grow natives and their important place in various ecosystems, and she can be frequently found hunched over a plant on the side of a trail anyplace in the area.
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.
The Garden Club of Weaverville, NC 