We hope you will join
the Garden Club of Weaverville
for our September 2024 Meeting
Program: Artful Flowers
Tuesday, September 10, at 11:30 a.m.
In the Weaverville Community Center
[60 Lakeshore Drive, Albert Weaver Room]
Garden Club of Weaverville member Susan Dunbar will present a program dedicated to flower and foliage pressing and the use of these pressed items to create art. She will explain which flowers are best to use, how to store these flowers, and how to later use them in creative ways. She will also have on hand the homemade, wooden flower press she uses, and she will explain how to make one of these.
Susan has always been fascinated by nature—in flowers and foliage, in particular. In 2020, she retired from a career as a nurse midwife and suddenly had the time to explore her creative side. In addition to writing poems and stories, she was able to explore her renewed interest in combining gardening and art. She researched pressing and drying flowers and foliage to use in creative ways, she made her first flower press soon thereafter, and she has been drying flowers to produce art ever since. Susan looks forward to sharing this technique with both her fellow GCW members and visitors from the community.
All are welcome to attend. The garden club will not provide refreshments this month, but feel free to bring your own lunch, snack, or beverages to enjoy immediately following the program, if you’d like. The business meeting will begin soon thereafter.
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.
We hope you will join
the Garden Club of Weaverville
for our June 2024 Meeting
Program: Gardening from Scratch
Tuesday, June 11, at 11:30 a.m.
In the Weaverville Community Center
[60 Lakeshore Drive, Albert Weaver Room]
Garden Club of Weaverville member Barb Woolmington will share her experience in transitioning her Weaverville home’s outdoor space from a raw construction zone in 2020 to the colorful and pollinator-friendly garden beds she tends now, just four years later. Included in her slideshow presentation are details on how she and her husband seeded a wildflower meadow along the back slope of the house, incorporated a wetlands pond for wildlife, added hardscape in the form of rock paths and terraces, and planted pollinator natives throughout.
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.
We will not host a public meeting in May. But we hope that you check back soon for info on our June 2024 meeting.
Happy spring gardening!
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.
We hope you will join
the Garden Club of Weaverville
for our April 2024 Meeting
Program: Understanding and Nurturing Healthy Soil
Tuesday, April 9, at 11:30 a.m.
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.
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