A Walk in the Winter Garden
- Sunday, February 12, 2006 – 1:00 pm–4:00 pm
Join us at the JC Raulston Arboretum for "A Walk in the Winter Garden" as we celebrate the winter season. Festivities begin at 1:00 PM with a Friends of the Arboretum Lecture presented by Peter Loewer. Gardeners often turn their attentions to the indoors and houseplants in an effort to ignore the colder months. But Peter Loewer – who lives in the chill of a winterized Asheville – thinks that those cold months are often great times to garden. He extols the virtues of pods, fruits, berries, beautiful leaves, and flowers – yes, flowers! This talk features both the good and the bad of winter gardening and uses the book The Winter Garden (by Peter Loewer and Larry Mellichamp), as a guide and includes eighty slides. "A Walk in the Winter Garden" tours begin at 2:00 PM and will highlight many of the Arboretum's magnificent plants at their peak during the winter months including Japanese flowering apricots, witchhazels, hellebores, conifers, hollies, winter honeysuckles, and many others.
A book signing will precede and follow the lecture.
Self-guided tour brochures will be made available at the Arboretum throughout February for those unable to attend the guided tours.
- Cost
- Free.
- Registration
- Advance registration is not available.
- Location
- Tour begins at the entrance to the Ruby C. McSwain Education Center at the JC Raulston Arboretum.
- Directions
- Need directions? Click here.
- Parking
- Free parking is available at the JC Raulston Arboretum and along Beryl Road.
- Questions
- Please call (919) 515-3132 for more information about this event.