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Landscaping & Gardening with Native Plants
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Short Description: display garden planted with native species ... continue with the native plantings in your garden! .... touch on various questions about moss gardening, ...
Content Inside: Field Trip Offerings All field trips are from 1:00 - 4:00pm 6- Rock Outcrop Communities with Tom EXCEPT for the Panthertown and Goforth. Visit the newest demonstration Southern Highlands Reserve trips, which garden at the Highlands Botanical Garden, are from 9:00am - 4:00pm. Field trips featuring plants found on rock outcrops in the southern Appalachian highlands. The group meet at the Performing Arts Center and will also visit nearby rock outcrops to see the leave promptly, so plan to arrive early! plants in their native habitat. The Highlands 1- The Fisher Garden with horticulturist Rob 7- Botanizing in Highlands with HBS Biological Foundation, Inc. Durrance. View Bob and Cathy Fisher's Director Emeritus Robert Wyatt. This property which includes a formal garden field trip highlights the incredible diversity of presents: surrounded by native gardens in a variety of plants, from mosses and ferns to conifers and habitats, with particular attention to water flowering plants, found within the town limits conservation techniques and rare plants. of Highlands. The Ninth Annual 2- Plant Propagation with Jamie and Marri 8- 9:00-4:00: *ALL DAY* Visit to the Southern Conference on Oxley of Meadowbrook Nursery/WE-DU Highlands Reserve with Jim and Bethany Natives -- propagate your own plants and Plyler. The Reserve, located at the summit work with great natives for your garden. of Toxaway Mountain, contains a 20 acre Learn about seeds, divisions and how to root display garden planted with native species Landscaping cuttings. Materials provided, plan on taking and their cultivars including a Woodland something home. Glade, Azalea Walk, Wildflower Labyrinth, 3- Wildcrafting Traditional Medicinals Vaseyi Trail and Pond, and Grassy Bald. A & with Ila Hatter, interpretive naturalist 100 acre natural area surrounds these gardens from Robbinsville, NC. Ila will use native and features waterfall and cliff communities. plants to present several plant origin stories 9- 9:00-4:00: *ALL DAY* Panthertown Valley Gardening of the Cherokee and give examples and with Wes Burlingame, owner of Laurel demonstrations of traditional preparations of Springs Nursery, and landscape designer medicines and foods. Robert Tucker, of Inside-Outside. One of with Native 4- How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our the most beautiful and biologically unique sites in the southern Appalachians, the spectacular Gardens with Doug Tallamy and Jim Costa. scenery has been dubbed "the Yosemite of the As a preview to Tallamy's talk, entomologists East." Expect moderate to strenuous hiking. Plants Tallamy and Costa will highlight the plant and animal interactions that take place in Thanks to the following nurseries for their donations to the Auction. Please remember them as you and native ecosystems and give suggestions for animal-friendly natives for your garden. continue with the native plantings in your garden! Chattooga Gardens (Cashiers, NC) Native Plant Auction 5- Gregory Garden with Paul Sanger, Crow Dog Nursery (Pickens, GA) landscape contractor, and Jeff Zahner, Gates Nursery (Highlands, NC) owner of Chattooga Gardens. Visit Goodness Grows, Inc. (Lexington, GA) September 12-13, 2008 this beautiful garden packed with native Laurel Springs Nursery (Hendersonville, NC) perennials, a moss garden, superb natural Meadowbrook Nursery/WE-DU Natives (Marion, NC) (828) 526-2602 Martin-Lipscomb 265 N. Sixth St. water features, and a view of Yellow Natural Landscapes Nursery (West Grove, PA) Highlands, NC 28741 Mountain. A short hike through a wooded Niche Gardens (Chapel Hill, NC) Performing Arts Center area, now under conservation easement, leads Scaly Mtn Nursery & Landscaping (Scaly Mtn, GA) 607 Chestnut Street to a spectacular meadow with wildflowers Snow Creek Landscaping, LLC (Cashiers, NC) (and butterflies!). Please wear sturdy shoes. Highlands Biological Foundation, Inc. Spring Valley Nursery (Franklin, NC) Highlands, NC
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