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Jeff Zahner’s Collection of Edible Shrubs & trees videos and list

Boy, oh boy!  Did we have a grand kick-off for our Garden Talk Salon 2016: Nature’s Kitchen.

Jeff Zahner shared his first choices with this list, all great for western North Carolina. Enjoy his take on paw paw (Asimina triloba) , blueberries (Vaccinium) , apples, lindera (Allspice), brambles and elderberry (Sambucus) plants.

Like this stuff?????  Please join us on Friday June 3rd for “Foraging and Processing GREENS” at Dovecote, 10 am. Please email me or call 828-743-0307. 

Please click on videos to watch! 

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Jeff Zahner Part 2 trees 5-27-16

Davidson Horticultural Symposium’s A Sense of Place

I love collaborating in symposia!  Davidson Horticultural Symposium has taken place for over 30 years bringing fantastic learning experiences to many a budding horticulturist, homeowner or landscape designer.

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Fergus Garrett, Great Dixter’s chief of horticulture and garden friend, presented many beautiful ideas of layering plants. When my time came to speak, it was well after lunch, so I “revved up the engine”!

Enjoy my lectures on how to extract the very best from your property! Divided into 4 parts, each about 15 minutes, you can dip in and out of great take home material to improve your sense of place. I consider this to be my very best lecture…EVER!

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Enjoy,

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Mary Palmer

 

Get Planted in the Smoky Mountains this Summer!

Wet & Wild!  Join us from June 10-12, 2016 in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Please watch video above and share with your club to hear the keynote presentation to GCA in NYC Dec 7, 2016. 

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Where is the site; the Smokies are vast!

At the park south entrance adjacent to Cherokee, NC.

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If you like horticulture, please join us & grow some plants! We need your help.

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Schedule of EVENTS & downloadable .pdf

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For particulars, please download the attached .pdf. 

and watch the video above! 

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The Last Cherry Hazelnut Bitters Ship Dec 17!

Pondering a gift for that special someone? 

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My homemade bitters are fresh from the field! Aged at Dovecote for 12 weeks in little charcoal barrels. Only a few boxes of Cherry Hazelnut paired with Elderberry Apple remain from our winter bottling.

Available till Thursday, Dec 17 for Christmas Delivery to your list.

Please watch video for particulars!  ) … and opps, about the my head cut off video aspect thing! 

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Gift wrapped and sent to your friends.

Just click the BUY NOW button.

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MP Pr headshot elderberry bestHugh and I go out early mornings in the late summer to collect the elderberries and green apples from the marshy area in the pasture next to Dovecote.


Then we soak them in spirits and add specially chosen ingredients like huckleberry vodka, dandelion root, wild cherry bark and elderberry syrup. They steep for about 8-10 weeks. Then I finish them in the little charred oak kegs for 2-3 more weeks.

These bitters are delicious on their own or in a cocktail.

While supplies last ’til Thursday, December 17.

Cheers,

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Mary Palmer

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Cherry Hazelnut & Elderberry Apple Bitters are Hedgerow Buddies that Taste Great in Winter Cocktails!

Let’s throw another log on the fire…
’tis the time to prepare your holiday list!

Announcing the limited edition of  my delicious,
autographed boxes of home-made bitters.

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.Includes Both Varieties in Festive Container
.Mailed for you to your friends

watch video to learn my secrets! 
It takes 10-12 weeks to make these bitters.
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Send me your list & I’ll do the mailing!

Please contact me directly with payment by check or credit card. Cost per signed box is $30. Postage is billed separately.

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Its fun to make these earthly delights!

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Hugh and I go out early mornings in the late summer to collect the elderberries and green apples from the marshy area in the pasture next to Dovecote.

Then we soak them in spirits and add specially chosen ingredients like huckleberry vodka, dandelion root, wild cherry bark and elderberry syrup. They steep for about 8-10 weeks. Then I finish them in the little charred oak kegs.

These bitters are delicious on their own or in a cocktail.


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As we enter into the holiday season,

I want to thank you for visiting Dovecote our Cashiers home, this summer in  person or vicariously by  joining our newsletter. Thank you!

We really appreciate your patronage of our Garden Talk Salons ( don’t forget they are all available and free on our website: dargan.com)

May you have a blessed, happy and healthy season ahead!

Remember that we love to do landscape consultations … tune-ups are great winter-time gifts.   

Please share this newsletter with your friends…the videos alone are great  gifts!

 

All the best, 

Mary Palmer
Landscape Your Life™