2010 SUMMER GARDEN TOURS

Submitted by John on November 2, 2010 - 5:14pm

Labyrinth in early Spring

From garden clubs and native plant societies to land conservancy and university groups, the summer of 2010 was a busy season for visitors at the Southern Highlands Reserve. The weather cooperated beautifully for eight to ten garden club groups, tours from the Cullowhee and Highlands native plant conferences, a visiting tour group from the Swathmore College Scott Arboretum in Pennsylvania, the North Carolina and Georgia Native Plant Societies, two staff members from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London and many more smaller groups of academic and bA group at the Mossy Bench areaotanical friends.

This summer's educational theme  was 'From Horticulture to Ecology'. In other words, how to get out of your garden and into the woods or, of more interest to gardeners, how to bring the woods into your garden through the use of plants native to the southern Appalachian highlands.

We hope you enjoy this small gallery of photos of this summer's visitors. If your group would like to visit the Reserve, please contact us through the 'contact us' button. We are open to visitors on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. To visit, you must be an organized group with an interest in horticulture, botany or ecology.

 

 

      Richard Bryson speaks to a group on the roof garden.           Dick Bir takes a group through the Core Park.    Someone has spotted the Umbrella Leaf below the Vaseyi Creek brifge.

 

A group from Swathmore Arboretum        Richard Bryson points out mountain peak.     Lunch time conversation

 

     Looking at Pitcher Plants at the pond's edge.