All Club meetings are open to the public.
What a grand finale for our year – 4 garden tours! We will caravan around to enjoy the handiwork of these veteran gardeners who are also club members! Meet by 9:30 a.m. in the parking lot behind the Weaverville Town Hall. Check your email for more info closer to the date.
If you are interested in becoming a member, click here ! Or talk to a member. We warmly welcome your interest.
We will enjoy each other and discuss program ideas for 2016 – 2017.
Nina Veteto, of Monarchrescue.org spoke on the subject of Monarch butterflies, their plight and fight for survival, as well as the rescue programs building up around the country.
Since this is a program she offers to schools in this area, it is also a benefit and she will bring some seeds for sale—so please remember to bring cash.
Milkweed and Monarchs
The lovely monarch butterfly
Sheer beauty to behold
Migrating from the north to south
On wings of black and gold.
The blossom of the milkweed plant.
Sustains their epic flight
Along the roads and countryside
It grows to their delight.
To some the milkweed should be banned
Just like the goldenrod
The monarchs think that just one sip’s
Like nectar from the gods.
Without the native milkweed plants
These monarchs won’t survive
But if their habitat is right
Our world will see them thrive.
We shifted the customary date to accommodate early voting. Welcome back Pat Sommers. We all enjoyed her program last year and I am sure she will
impress again this spring. Pat is opening her own native nursery this Spring, and it will keep the name “Natural Selections Nursery.” She will now be located near Reems Creek Road, right in Weaverville. She will be talking about her mission with this new and larger nursery, where she will finally be able to grow natives directly in the ground and start many more varieties from seed.
The Garden Club of Weaverville, NC 