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Tips for a Balanced Approach to Managing Garden Diseases and Pests—Tuesday, January 13, at 11:30 a.m.

We hope you will join
the Garden Club of Weaverville
for our January 2026 Meeting

Tips for a Balanced Approach to Managing Garden Diseases and Pests

Tuesday, January 13, at 11:30 a.m.

In the Weaverville Community Center
[60 Lakeshore Drive, Albert Weaver Room]

Does the above plant have variagated leaves? Or does it have a virus?

To learn more about this, please join us for a presentation on integrated pest management in the garden offered by horticulturalist, garden designer, ornamental nursery owner, and farmer Skyler Keeney.

The most important part of IPM is the word “integrated,” and to Skyler that means “balanced and well-informed.” And while IPM comprises management of mites, weeds, mammals, and pathogens, Skyler’s presentation will focus on the most common plant pathogenic viruses, bacteria, and fungi. Her goal is to build enthusiasm for IPM and encourage home gardeners to pursue a balanced and well-informed approach to managing garden diseases.

Skyler earned a bachelor’s degree in horticulture, focusing on ornamental horticulture. She has experience in several branches of the green industry, including in public gardens, greenhouses, wholesale and retail nurseries, and residential landscaping. And managing plant diseases has been crucial in all positions.

She started her business, Sky Gardens in 2022 as a garden designer in Atlanta. Not long after, Western North Carolina captured her and her husband’s hearts, and they chose to buy their first home here in 2023. Since then, she has been growing her business to include more areas of horticulture, including a greenhouse, vegetable garden, orchard, and vineyard. One day, she’d like to continue her education and pursue her passion for plant pathology more deeply. But now in the private gardener branch of her business, she mostly enjoys pruning, as well as educating clients about IPM. A day covered in dirt is always a good day!

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.

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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There will be No Regular Public Meeting in December 2025

But we hope you will join us at our next  meeting in January 2026.

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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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(Revised Program) Winter Gardening: Getting Started—Tuesday, November 18, at 11:30 a.m.

We hope you will join
the Garden Club of Weaverville
for our November 2025 Meeting

Winter Gardening: Getting Started

Tuesday, November 18, at 11:30 a.m.

In the Weaverville Community Center
[60 Lakeshore Drive, Albert Weaver Room]

 

Winter is no time to simply relax and peruse your garden catalogs.  Rather, winter is also a time to start your vegetables and perennials for next spring.  How do you start in winter?  Local gardener Deanne Eversmeyer will share her expertise and tell us how.  She will offer guidance on when to start, which materials are needed, which simple-yet-beautiful plants are best to use, how to control light and water, and so much more.  She will also bring along seeds and some baby plants to help get you started.  You’re invited to attend Deanne’s presentation, to ask your winter gardening questions, and also to share your own personal tips.

In her previous life, Deanne managed the grounds crew at the Washington National Cathedral and the landscape department at Washington Golf & Country Club. In her current life at Hope Springs Farmlet and Chicken Ranch, she puts her horticultural degree and over 40 years of gardening experience into growing all of her produce in her 2,000-square-foot garden here in the Reems Creek Valley.  

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.

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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Program Postponed (Please see latest post for information on November program.) Gardening for Butterflies and Moths: Why You Need the Nectar Bar AND the Salad Bar—Tuesday, November 18, at 11:30 a.m.

We hope you will join
the Garden Club of Weaverville
for our November 2025 Meeting

Gardening for Butterflies and Moths: Why You Need the Nectar Bar AND the Salad Bar

Tuesday, November 18, at 11:30 a.m.

In the Weaverville Community Center
[60 Lakeshore Drive, Albert Weaver Room]

Please join Sharon Mammoser, photographer and naturalist and authorof her own Nature for my Soul blog, as she discusses the characteristics, lifecycle, and basic needs of Lepidoptera—that is, butterflies and moths.

According to Sharon, most butterfly gardens fall short of their noble goals because they address only the needs of the adult Lepidoptera while ignoring the needs of the caterpillars. And most information available out there doesn’t include moths—in part because many people have negative opinions about moths, mistakenly thinking they eat their clothes, for instance. Moreover, Sharon notes that most of the songbirds we wish to attract to our spaces require a healthy ecosystem and that this ecosystem must include songbirds’ food—and that food includes butterflies and moths in both adult and caterpillar stages. Her presentation will offer ideas on how to begin supporting this healthy ecosystem, including a review of host plants for some of our most common Lepidoptera species.

Sharon, who says that nature nourishes her soul and makes her heart sing with joy, spent her childhood exploring the wildlands around her home in western New York. She then went on to earn her Bachelor of Science degree from SUNY at New Paltz. And for many years, she shared her love and knowledge of nature with people of all ages in Minnesota, Michigan, Rhode Island, Colorado, and New York. In 2008, she thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, an event that prompted her to move to Western North Carolina, which she now calls home. These days, Sharon is focused on educating people about the plants and animals in their yards and how they can make their outdoor spaces more welcoming and beneficial to wildlife both large and small.

Please note that this presentation was originally scheduled for September but had to be rescheduled.

Also, please note that our November meeting will take place on the third Tuesday of this month because the community center will be closed on Veterans Day. 

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.

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.