Meetings

October Meeting: Beautiful to Wildlife, Beautiful to People — Landscaping with Native Plants to Support Nature

The Garden Club of Weaverville

October 2023 Meeting

Tuesday, October 10, at 11:30 a.m.

Weaverville Community Center

60 Lakeshore Drive

Albert Weaver Room

Landscaping with native plants is critical to build habitat, build healthy outdoor living areas, and reduce resource inputs. Learn why only native plants can do this, and learn about some design tips to make your native landscape beautiful as well.

Presenter Drew Lathin, owner of Mountain Native Landscape Design, has been playing around with native plants in built landscapes for more than 20 years as a home gardener, native plant nursery manager, owner of a sustainable landscape installation firm, and landscape designer. He is a fierce advocate for the need to re-wild our urban and suburban landscapes using native plants in thoughtful and legible designs to bring biological diversity and beauty to our everyday lives. Four hundred of his clients now have rain gardens, prairie gardens, pollinator gardens, natural shorelines, and alternative lawns.

All are welcome to attend. The garden club will provide refreshments immediately following the program, and the business meeting will begin soon thereafter. Feel free to bring your own beverages.

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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, gardenclubofweaverville.org. 

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.

Events, Meetings

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.

Events, Meetings, Previous Events, Previous Meetings

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.

Envisioning a Beautiful Community for Everyone