Raulston Blooms!
A Garden Festival for All Ages
By JCRA Staff and Volunteers
Saturday, April 5, 2014
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
What is it? Fun for the whole family! Learn, shop for your garden, get great ideas, and enjoy gourmet treats at Raulston Blooms! We 're rolling out the red carpet for members, home gardeners, families, and children by offering a day that's packed with garden and nature activities, shopping, and outdoor fun.
Enjoy
- Spring Plant Sale
- Birdhouse Competition
- Children's activities
- maze
- storytime
- games
- hands-on learning activities
- Gardening talks and demonstrations
- Arts and crafts vendors
- Food trucks
- NC State's Howling Cow ice cream
- Thousands of plants in our world-famous gardens
Raulston Blooms!
Children Activities
For kids there will be a grassy maze, story time, games, and hands-on learning experiences.
Demonstrations
Adults can see and hear expert demonstrations on a variety of home gardening topics: growing heirloom tomatoes, DIY fence building, container gardening, composting, propagation, seasonal cooking, and more.
Spring Plant Sale
Gardeners love buying hard to find plants selected by JCRA staffers especially for our climate. Members save 10%.
Members-only Preview Sale
Members can shop early on Friday, April 4 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Birdhouse Competition
The birdhouse competition, which draws entries in categories from age six to adult, is inspiring, fanciful, and fun! It's a perennial hit with everyone from serious bird watchers and nature photographers to school classes and scouts.
It's a Great Time to Be a Member of the Arboretum
By Arlene Calhoun, Volunteer and Membership Care Coordinator
This is a perfect time of year to be a member of the JC Raulston Arboretum! Our much coveted Spring Plant Sale is nearing and you don’t want to miss it. Gardeners love buying hard to find plants suitable for our climate. We will have over 200 different kinds of plants!
As a JCRA member, you get to shop early on Friday, April 4 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM and get a 10% discount off your plant purchase. If you can’t make it Friday, your membership discount can be used on Saturday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM It also gains you free entrance into Raulston Blooms! where you’ll enjoy the 14th Annual Birdhouse Competition, gardening demonstrations in the main tent, artist and craftsman in the garden, food trucks, and a garden maze.
We hope to see you there!
JCRA Benefit Provider Highlight—Lasting Impressions
By Arlene Calhoun, Volunteer and Membership Care Coordinator
Beth Jimenez and Amelia Lane, Lasting Impressions, believe beautiful and creative gardens are made of more than great plants. They encourage you to brighten your garden year round by providing unique and colorful places to water the birds or highlight a special plant in a hypertufa trough or faux bois planter.
Beth and Amelia are the creators of unique concrete leaves, globes, and hypertufa troughs. Their leaf sculptures are installed at the JC Raulston Arboretum and many private gardens. As a JCRA Benefit Provider, they extend a 10% discount to our members for their hand-cast concrete leaves and hypertufa troughs.
Want a more hands-on experience? Sign up for their hypertufa trough workshop or cast concrete leave workshop on Saturday, July 26.
Want to see their work in person? Join them at their 8th Annual Open Garden and Art Show featuring their creations in addition to those of ten other area artists on Saturday, April 19, 2014, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
A special thanks to all of our 2014 Benefit Providers who extend discounts that help your membership to pay for itself! Just show your JC Raulston Arboretum membership card before you start your checkout transaction.
Coming Attractions
By Nancy Doubrava, Interpretive Specialist
Cercis canadensis 'Floating Clouds'
variegated eastern redbud
Chaenomeles 'Orange Storm'
hybrid flowering quince
Cornus florida 'Suwanee Squat'
dwarf flowering dogwood
Rhododendron 'Mandarin Lights'
Northern Lights hybrid azalea
YouTube Channel
by Chris Glenn, Programs and Education Coordinator
Five new videos were recorded in March and posted to our YouTube Channel. Receive announcements about our latest additions by subscribing to our channel.
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