by Guest | Mar 9, 2016 | Community
Visitors to The North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville are invited to step up to a new interpretive wayside sign and get a nutshell idea of the Arboretum’s history, mission and influence in Western North Carolina. Located at the trailhead of Hard Times Road, this...
by Clara Curtis | Mar 2, 2016 | Horticulture & Landscape
The Quilt Garden at the Arboretum requires a commitment to gardening not unlike what Victorian era gardeners called “carpet bedding” or floral plantings in masses of harmonious or contrasting colored foliage and flowers. In the 1870s, new plant species arriving from...
by Whitney Smith | Feb 17, 2016 | Exhibits
Prizewinning artist, writer and photographer Sandee Johnson has traveled the world mastering techniques including mixed media, acrylic, collage, pen and ink, encaustic, oil and cold wax, paper-making, printmaking, and altered photography. She is inspired by the joys...
by Clara Curtis | Feb 10, 2016 | Horticulture & Landscape
I admit it, I adore flowers. I always have. As a self-proclaimed “flower child” of the 1960s, I often found myself running through gardens and fields, picking flowers and learning early on from my mother the fundamentals of making a bouquet. I wasn’t old enough yet to...
by Guest | Feb 3, 2016 | Nature
Every day holds great potential to discover birds and experience the joys of birding. With leaves off the trees, winter is a great time to explore the natural world and look for birds. Where can you find these fine feathered friends? Some birds, of course, will flock...
by Jonathan Marchal | Jan 27, 2016 | Nature
As a child of the 1980s and now raising two small children of my own in this new millennium, I have mixed feelings regarding the presence digital devices should have within the home and beyond. “Put down that Gameboy and look out the window!” my father would often...
