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Order Form for 2011 Toxaway Falls Garden Club Native Plant Pre-Sale

CLICK HERE to download the order form and information for the Toxaway Falls Garden Club 2011 Native Plant Pre-Sale.

Orders will be accepted until November 17, 2011. Many of these plants will not be available at our on-sight sale in May and many are hard-to-find in local garden centers.

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Pre-Order For 2011 Plant Sale

To learn about the pre-order opportunities for native plants through the Toxaway Falls Garden Club 2011 Native Plant Sale, follow this link to the Blog section. Be sure to click on the 'read more' button to download the order form and descriptive plant lists with photos.

From Ice Reports to Climate Change and the Imperiled High Peaks Conifer Forest

Since we can't get outside these days, there has been plenty of time to post articles of news and interest to the SHR blog. Click here to go to the blog and find out about:

  • Ice and snow at SHR
  • Climate Change
  • The spruce-fir forest in danger
  • Phenology monitoring
  • Hemlock Wooly Adelgid success in the Smokies
  • SHR focus for 2010

Three new blog posts - endangered squirrels, eco restoration and a GIS for Hemlock data

CLICK HERE  to go to the blog section and read about a new program SHR has instituted to grow plants for ecological restoration, efforts to improve habitat for the federally listed Carolina northern flying squirrel and a new GIS database and map for recording data about SHR efforts to control Hemlock Wooly Adelgid.

Southern Highlands Reserve Begins Educational Programs

The summer of 2009 marks the beginning of the Reserve's educational mission. Garden clubs, native plant societies, land conservation groups and tours from national native plant conferences all availed themselves of opportunites presented at the Reserve this summer. The highlight, however, was the initial native plant symposiums in collaboration with the Lake Toxaway Garden Club. Click here for more info.

Jack Owen honored at NC Museum of Art

Read the new blog entry about Travis Owen's memorial to his father, Jack Owen, at the new North Carolina Museum of Art. Click on the link on the blog page that will take you to the NC Museum of Art website for the full story and pictures.

Native or Not?

For links to resources on how to determine if a plant is native or not, go to the Blog section of the website and click on the 'Native or Not' title.

Assault charges filed at Southern Highlands Reserve

In early June of this year, the NC Department of Environmental Excess announced that assault charges have been filed against the Ericaceae family at the Southern Highlands Reserve.

For details, click here.

Sex and Bamboo

Find out about the hanky panky going on out behind the Wildflower Labyrinth.

There is a newly named southern Appalachian bamboo.