Meetings

September Meeting: Bringing the Love of Gardening Indoors with Houseplants (and a plant exchange)

The Garden Club of Weaverville 

September 2023 Meeting 

Tuesday, September 12, at 11:30 a.m.

(Please note the new time!)

Weaverville Community Center

60 Lakeshore Drive

Albert Weaver Room 

*Feel free to bring a snack or lunch to eat during the program and meeting, if you wish.

Program: Bringing the Love of Gardening Indoors with Houseplants

Carrie Goforth, a local business owner and WNC native, is a lifelong plant enthusiast.  And although she has gardened outside for years, she now chooses to concentrate on gardening inside of her home with a collection of both common and rare houseplant specimens.   

Carrie will share tips on ways to collect indoor plants, how to properly care for and fertilize them, how to use them in home décor, and how to propagate to help your indoor garden flourish. The presentation will include live plants for inspiration, a propagation demonstration, and a slideshow with example photos.

All are welcome to attend. A business meeting will immediately follow the program.

We will also have a plant exchange!

What to do to participate in the plant exchange:

  • Start potting up what you want to bring.
  • Be sure to label all plants with the plant name, the sun/shade requirements, and your last name (just in case someone has questions).  
  • Leave the plants on the outside patio during the program (and don’t bring them inside the community center room).
  • Get excited about swapping plants with other gardeners during the exchange, which will take place after the program and meeting are concluded.

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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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July – August Meeting Hiatus

Lush perennial flower garden with daylilies Hemerocallis, Echinacea, Heliopsis, Veronicastrum Fascination, barn, shed, picket fence, sunny summer day in July, full of blooms, classic garden scene full of easy beautiful flowering plants for the backyard sun

Planning for our upcoming educational programs is underway!

Members will hold a program and event planning meeting in July.

Our fall season meetings begin in September

Meetings are on the 2nd Tuesdays at 11:30am

September – June

Become a member now & join us for summer field trips, member garden visits & more!

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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June Meeting – Gardening Tips, Q&A and Plant Exchange

We hope you will join
The Garden Club of Weaverville
for Our June 2023 Meeting 

Tuesday, June 13th at 9:30 on the covered porch at the new Weaverville Community Center 

Program: Gardening Tips, Q&A and Plant Exchange

Please bring your gardening wisdom and plants (or a list of plants) you would like to share to this interactive meeting.

  • A brief business meeting will precede the interactive program. 
  • Instead of having a formal presentation this month we will informally share useful gardening tips & have the opportunity to seek advice from fellow gardeners. After the discussion forum, we will focus on sharing the bounty of our gardens and enjoying being together.
    •  Bring plants to share, or a list of the plants that you’d like to share.
      • Each person with plants to share will briefly tell the group about what they have to share.
      • Please label plants if possible. If a cultivar, try to include the name of the variety. (Ex: Echinacea ‘Tomato Soup’)
      • Please don’t share plants on the Western NC Invasive plant list 
      • Please go around the outside of the building to take your plants to the patio.   

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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Celebrating 50 Years!

The Garden Club of Weaverville
50th Anniversary Celebration

Sunday, June 4th from 2-5 p.m.

Location: Weaverville Community Center             

Join us for the celebration!

All are invited to join the Garden Club of Weaverville as we celebrate 50 years since our founding in 1973. The anniversary celebration will take place on Sunday, June 4, 2023, from 2:00 until 5:00 p.m., at the Weaverville Community Center, which is located across the street from Lake Louise in Weaverville.

The event is free to the public, and it affords guests an opportunity to meet club members, learn more about our organization, ask club members any garden-related questions they might have, and enjoy refreshments.

In addition, three speakers will present on gardening topics. The times and descriptions of the presentations are as follows:

2:30 p.m. “50 Blooming Years”

In celebration of 50 years of beautifying the town of Weaverville, club member Susan Dunbar will review the history of the Garden Club of Weaverville from its inception through the present. She’ll also discuss the current activities of the club. These include maintenance of the downtown gardens and the Pollinator Habitat Garden located in the Main Street Nature Park, donations to support worthy horticultural groups in the area, garden consultations for club members, outings to gardening-related places of interest, and monthly informative programs that are open to the public. 

3:00 p.m. “My Urban Food Garden”

Club member Kathleen Kasben, who appreciates the joy of working with nature and partaking of its wonderful bounty, will discuss the practical aspects of bringing the vision of her full-sun 1/4-acre vegetable, herb, and berry garden to life over the past nine years. Among the subjects she’ll touch on are building water catchment for water storage and use in her garden, using metal troughs for raised beds and ground-level asparagus and onion patches, and filling those troughs with cover crops for the winter.  

3:30 p.m. “My Family Heritage Garden”

Local gardener and artist Joel Cole will discuss how surviving family artifacts and generational influence have inspired him while gardening in Faer Hill, his downtown Weaverville cottage garden. The garden, which surrounds the century-old house that once belonged to his grandparents, became Joel’s after he returned home to Weaverville from New York and bought the property in the 1990s. The garden now comprises an artist studio and several separate rooms, including a potager garden, an Asian garden, and a water garden.

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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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