We hope you will join The Garden Club of Weaverville for Our October Meeting – via Zoom
Tuesday, October 12th at 9:30
Program: Creating Native Plant “Meadows” on Slopes
Pat Sommers will be presenting a program on Creating native plant “Meadows” in sloped settings. The talk will feature a variety of native perennials for sun/shade, wet-dry conditions, small and large spaces. Pat will also cover methods of site preparation, calculating plant quantities, creating the plant list, planting, and aftercare. How native perennials enhance our gardens and why they are important to the ecology of our larger landscape will also be discussed.
Pat’s background:
Natural Selections Nursery: Pat started growing natives from seed 12 years ago when she moved to this area. She moved to Weaverville in 2015 and has been steadily growing native plants since then.
Pat studied horticulture/landscape design at the Chicago Botanic Garden, including an internship in plant breeding and plant evaluation.
Her native plant background:
Her Mother taught her about the native plants of New England through walks in the woods for many years.
Worked as an outdoor volunteer for 9 years at Asheville Botanical Garden.
Has taught a number of classes on how to grow natives and the importance of their place in various ecosystems.
Can be frequently found hunched over a plant on the side of a trail any place in the area!
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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.
Some gardens are built with a single theme, like a pollinator garden or plants of a particular color scheme. Other gardens are built for a specific use or activity to happen there, like outdoor dining or bird watching. A sensory garden will pull together multiple aspects by its very nature; to allow the five senses each to have their moment of celebration.
Sensory gardens are for everyone and we can use them as opportunities to engage our senses and enhance our feeling of being alive and with the natural world.
Laura will share information about sensory gardens in our community and beyond, what elements to include in building your own as well as the opportunity all gardens, and even natural spaces provide to engage our senses and enhance our quality of life.
This talk will pull inspiration from the many gardens Laura has visited as well as worked in over the course of her 20+ years in horticulture, as well as multiple sources from writers, poets, artists and other gardeners.
Laura’s interests and background in studying nature, plants, and gardening, go back to her studies at Warren Wilson College and then onto her agricultural apprenticeship in the UK in 2003-2005. Through the last 15 years of helping her family with Thyme in the Garden, she has also sought time to build her own artistic and horticultural practice, with managing a community garden and creating journals, drawings and paintings focused on plant growth and cycles.This talk is very connected to what motivated Laura to get involved with gardening in the first place; a drive to learn and connect in a more intimate way to the natural world. It is an ambition to inspire others to do the same!
**Email gardenclubweaverville@gmail.com if you are not a Club member and would like to join this Zoom Meeting
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 Upcoming Monthly Meetings – on the 2nd Tuesdays at 9:30
Program planning for our 2021 – 2022 season (that begins in September) is underway! – Members and prospective members are encouraged to submit ideas for topics and speakers.
* September 14 – Sensory Gardens – Laura Carter of Thyme in the Garden
* October 12 – Creating Native Plant “Meadows” in Various Landscape Settings – Pat Sommers of Natural Selections Nursery
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 May Meeting
Program: Using Grasses and Grass-like Plants in the Landscape
Tuesday, May 11 at 9:30 am
via Zoom [Email us at gardenclubweaverville@gmail.com if you are not a member & would like to join the Zoom meeting]
Nancy Duffy will share her insights and expertise regarding using grasses and grass-like plants in the landscape. Specific focus areas include:
Different types of grass-like plants – Sedges have edges
Why grasses are valuable components of a landscape
How to design with grasses from natural meadows to highly stylized compositions
Specific grasses for various garden situations
Basics of planting and maintaining grasses
Nancy Duffy is the owner of Muddy Boots Garden Design and has been designing gardens in WNC for nearly 20 years. She is a trained horticulturalist and enjoys creating gardens that suit each person for whom she designs. Inspired by Piet Oudolf, Nancy designed her first meadow garden in 2011 and never looked back. Her current and largest project is the design of a quarter-mile long urban meadow at Camp North End in Charlotte, NC. She shares her personal four-acre garden, Acorn Hill, with her husband Dennis, their German Shepherd Dog Gidget and cats Lily and Margo.
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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