Bullington Gardens Event Calendar

Learn how to properly prune ornamental trees and shrubs with Bullington’s John Murphy. Class fills up quickly. $15

Learn how to successfully establish and manage a Community Garden with Jane Grossman, Manager of Bountiful Harvest Community Garden in Hendersonville and Steve Pettis, Horticulture Extension Agent, Henderson County.  Discussion will include tips on getting started, selecting a site, planning and designing the garden, garden guidelines and management. This program is appropriate for HOA’s, churches, small communities and businesses. Free, but please register.

Bullington staff Kelsey Jarvis and John Murphy will discuss trees, shrubs and hardy perennials that will draw birds to your garden year-round with examples of nesting preferences and food sources for specific birds. In partnership with Wild Birds Unlimited Hendersonville. $15

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Join Jane Voorhees for a two-day beginning watercolor landscape class. You’ll learn about different brushes, paints and paper while expanding your watercolor vocabulary with lots of traditional and non-traditional watercolor techniques. For beginners or those wanting to refresh basic watercolor techniques. Jane comes from a well-known artistic family and she teaches regularly at the John C. Campbell Folk School. $120 + $20 materials fee. See her website: www.JaneVoorheesArt.com. Limit 10.

Learn gardening basics on how to improve soil, composting, what and when to plant, pest control measures and other techniques to get your vegetable garden off to a great start in this 3-day program. Led by John Murphy. $50.

Successfully grow and harvest tasty blueberries in your own home garden. Area Extension Specialized Agent Craig Mauney will share practices on getting blueberries established and growing well, how to prune, pest problems and which are the best varieties for our area. Sign up for Blueberry & Raspberry class and pay only $12.50/class!

Successfully grow and harvest Raspberries & Blackberries in your own home garden. Area Extension Specialized Agent Craig Mauney will share practices on getting blueberries established and growing well, how to prune, pest problems and which are the best varieties for our area. Sign up for Blueberry & Raspberry class and pay only $12.50/class!

Crissy Dzielak of Landmark Landscapes will highlight great perennials for Western NC, especially ones that are lower maintenance, and how these plants can be used in the landscape. $15

Brian Killingsworth, Bullington’s Dahlia guru, will discuss and demonstrate how to grow these spectacular plants  in your garden. Bring last season’s clumps of tubers to see how to divide into individual tubers. $12

New class from Jane Voorhees!

Watercolor Landscapes II builds on Watercolor Landscapes for Beginners Part I. Using the same tools and materials, we will be working from photographs and/or sketches. References will be provided or bring your own. Still approaching watercolor with an experimental and playful attitude, we will cover composition, color mixing and traditional & non-traditional watercolor mark making techniques. For beginners or those wanting to refresh basic watercolor techniques.  Must take Watercolor Landscapes Part I prior.

Jane comes from a well-known artistic family and she teaches regularly at the John C. Campbell Folk School. $120 + $20 materials fee. See her website: www.JaneVoorheesArt.com. Limit 10.

Join moss expert Becky Smucker to learn the basics of seeing and collecting mosses and liverworts in a wooded setting. Scale your focus down to observe the communities of these tiny but vital, ancient and fascinating survivors. Bring a hand lens if you have one. Be ready for rain or shine. Limit 10.  $18