environment | The Garden Club of Weaverville, NC

We hope you will join
the Garden Club of Weaverville
for our June 2025 Meeting

Right Plant, Right Place

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

In the Weaverville Community Center
[60 Lakeshore Drive, Albert Weaver Room]

Do you wonder if you’re making the right choices when you plant? Are you planting the right plant in the right place?

Gardens can change over time. And different weather patterns, soil conditions, and especially changing sunlight can create challenges and new opportunities, even in established gardens. Come join Luke Owen, commercial horticulture agent for the N.C. Cooperative Extension’s Buncombe County Center, as he explores some of the important factors that can influence our decisions and help us find the right plant for the right place.

Luke got his start in horticulture while growing up on his small family farm in Western North Carolina and selling plants at local farmers markets with his grandparents. Then he fed his passion by earning an associate degree in horticulture technology at Blue Ridge Community College and, later, undergraduate and master’s degrees in the horticultural science department at North Carolina State University. Luke has a diverse work experience in the industry, including ornamental breeding, hemp production, and greenhouse and arboriculture experience. In his current role with the extension office, he manages a wide variety of educational programming and interacts with local growers and green industry professionals.

All are welcome to attend. The garden club will not provide refreshments this month, but feel free to bring your own lunch, snack, or beverages to enjoy immediately following the program, if you’d like. The business meeting will begin soon thereafter.

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.

Tuesday, November 13th at 9:30 am

In the Weaverville Town Hall Community Room

Shelby Jackson, of Carolina Native Nursery in Burnsville, will present a program on Gardening with Native Shrubs and Perennials. Some native grasses will be included in the talk. Shelby will be sharing information regarding the environmental importance of gardening with native plants and what specific plants will do best in your mountain gardens.

Her presentation will open with some big picture facts about native plants and how they affect our environment, the birds, and our pollinators. She’ll talk about the evolution of native plants and how they make our world what it is today and how native plants are necessary to feed our native bird population and they also host a multitude of native insects and pollinators.

Native plants will be available for purchase (with cash or check).

Shelby is a University of Tennessee Horticulture alumnus. She has extensive knowledge of native plants, as they are one of her passions. In addition to managing sales operations at large nurseries and garden centers, her experience includes, horticultural research in the field and the laboratory, landscape design, and consulting. She is an N.C.N.L.A. Certified Plant Professional and has served on the Hendersonville Tree Commission, and the Horticulture Technology board at Blue Ridge Community College.

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.