We hope you will join
the Garden Club of Weaverville
for Our March 2024 Meeting
Program: Protecting and Preserving the Blue Ridge Parkway
Tuesday, March 12, at 11:30 a.m.
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.
We hope you will join
The Garden Club of Weaverville
for Our February 2024 Meeting
Program: How to be a Bird-Friendly Gardener
Tuesday, February 13, at 11:30 a.m.
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.
We hope you will join
The Garden Club of Weaverville
for Our January 2024 Meeting
Program: Protecting and Preserving the Blue Ridge Parkway
Tuesday, January 9, at 11:30 a.m.
In the Weaverville Community Center
[60 Lakeshore Drive, Albert Weaver Room]
Due to severe weather warnings, tomorrow’s meeting has been canceled. Our guest speaker, Carolyn Ward, CEO of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, will be rescheduled.
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.
But we hope you will join us at our next meeting in January 2024.
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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