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West Asheville

Gardening Experience:

Expert

About Me:

I love all things related to gardens.
On weekends my husband has to make me come inside the house. Even after it's dark. I will garden for hours on end and it will feel like only 10 minutes have gone by.
I certified as a master gardener in 1996 in Lincoln County, N.C.
I love to visit public gardens. I go on garden tours.
I love to grow flowers to cut for vases, for me to enjoy at home and work, and sometimes to even give away.
I also enjoy growing my own food but I have a lot of mature oaks on my lot and so I've kind of had to choose between the flowers or the veggies.
I was raised on a 40-acre farm in Indiana until the age of 13 and I would farm for a living if I thought I could make it pay my bills.
I have always gardened as an adult, even in college.
Other info: Husband of 16 years, 13-year-old son. My dog, a Sheltie.

Favorite Plants:

The peony is my all-time favorite. I also love roses, zinnias, mums, and many more flowers. I am also very partial to herbs, including rosemary and thyme, plus lemon verbena and bay. But I'm not a big basil fan.
For shrubs, nandinas and false indigo. Plus you can't beat azaleas, but I was slow to come to this realization. For trees, weeping cherry, tulip poplars and maples.

Garden as a hobby?

Yes

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Still time to sign up for Spring Garden School

My friend Mary Fierle, a Buncombe master gardener, tells me there’s still room for more folks to sign up for the master gardeners’ Spring Garden School this Saturday.

Organizers would prefer that people sign up in advance, but she adds that day-of registration at the door will be available.

I’ve been to the Spring Garden School before and it’s a great program. Below is the press release with all the information:

“Eat Local - Grow Your Own!"… Continue

Posted on March 18, 2010 at 9:18am —

Whole Bloomin’ Thing looking for vendors

I've never been to the Whole Bloomin’ Thing in Waynesville, but it sounds like a neat little garden festival. Here's an announcement I got from the organizers of it recently:

CALL FOR VENDORS –8th Annual “Whole Bloomin’ Thing” Spring Festival

The 8th Annual “Whole Bloomin’ Thing” Spring Festival Committee is now accepting applications for this year’s event, to be held on Saturday, May 8, 2010 in Waynesville’s Frog Level. We invite local growers, artisans, and wellness & n… Continue

Posted on March 13, 2010 at 7:33am —

Biltmore’s Festival of Flowers starts April 3

Biltmore Estate holds its 25^th Festival of Flowers April 3-May 16 and it will include a new garden audio tour this year.

We all know the thousands of tulips in the walled garden serve as stars of the show, but estate gardeners also gussy up the Conservatory.

Some excerpts from press material for this year’s Festival of Flowers:… Continue

Posted on March 13, 2010 at 7:30am —

The misadventure of my “Gardener’s Latin”

How much of a gardening nerd do you have to be to sit around reading “Gardener’s Latin” by Bill Neal? Yes, THAT Bill Neal. The late famous chef/cook/owner of Crook’s Corner in Chapel Hill Bill Neal.

More well known for his cookbooks, it turns out he was a garden nerd, too.

Since Christmas, when I got the book, I’ve been merrily meandering through pages to entries such as this:

“deo’rum: of the Gods”

“forfica’… Continue

Posted on March 9, 2010 at 10:00pm —

Still time to register for Organic Growers School

How time flies! Seems like I was shoveling snow off my sidewalk the other day – wait, make that again this week probably – and now the Spring Organic Growers School is almost here. In fact, it’s Saturday.

The Organic Growers School Spring Conference happens March 6-7 at UNC Asheville.
The conference will be spread out through several buildings surrounding the quad on the main campus. Highsmith Student Union will serve as conference headquarters, according to Meredith McKissick, Org… Continue

Posted on March 1, 2010 at 2:53pm —

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At 5:08am on August 5, 2009, Gary Carden said…: I'm trying to work out some kind of alliance with the groundhogs. I would like to co-exist, if that is possible. There is a fox family out there, too.

At 11:19am on July 14, 2009, Carole said…: I finally posted a photo of the Empress/Paulownia Tree. The 2 photos on my page show the tree two weeks apart. This tree is new to me, but since becoming familiar with it, I see this tree very often along the insterstate and highways. It is a very fast growing tree.

The other tree is the fruit salad tree - supposed to grow 5 different kinds of fruit. It's hard to see in the photo, but it's obvious a totally different looking branch is growing off that main tree. I'm fascinated with it and it's growing very well.

I also got the "Annika Sanford" has posted a comment on your page. But when I looked, there was no comment and it didn't direct me anywhere else.

At 11:26am on July 1, 2009, Melody Riles said…: Yes I am a photographer and I only post photos of my garden I am partial. Lol! Thank you for the comment.

At 11:21pm on June 28, 2009, Evergreen said…: The greenhouse is full of heathers, alot of research this winter and experimenting this spring has helped this year with everything coming together.

At 7:34pm on June 22, 2009, julianne sawinski said…: loved the edible landscape thing. oh, by the by, i would only sell my 1/2 acre in nw fla to a fellow plant person. the brand new homes next door are the mutilate and lawn types. My taxes are only 82 bucks a year by the way as its an old trailer so a handyperson would be good. Maybe some older folks want to be sure that their trees WONT be cut. Julianne2saw@yahoo.com and thus would consider selling it to me.

At 10:26am on June 22, 2009, Two Seeders said…: Hey Polly,
Thanks for the interest! I am small-One frame and surrounding space. I grow perennials-some common and some natives-a few ferns and grasses. I can email you a list of current items if you are interested. From what I can tell on the site-you must have a fantastic yard! Thanks for adding me as a friend.

At 3:41pm on June 19, 2009, Bert Nagel said…: Polly, I received the same email regarding Annika Sanford but clicking the link took me to the garden site. ???

At 12:59pm on June 19, 2009, MK Harrison said…: I got a notice that 'she' commented on my board - and the post is gone! You are quick

At 12:29pm on June 19, 2009, Becky Mojica said…: Polly
I just got an email from a person: Annika Sanford, and when I clicked on the link, it went to a porn site. Am I the only one who got this?