Thanks so much for the volunteer crew that helped us with the Cashiers Designer Showcase house this year!
Our landscaping designers created a lovely shaded walkway for the Hilliard House, the 17th Annual Cashiers Designer Showhouse.
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Meet us at the Cashiers Leaf Festival
Dovecote and Dargan Landscape Architects will again share a booth at the Cashiers Leaf Festival. Please join us!
The 2014 Leaf Festival will be held Friday through Sunday, October 10 – 12. The sixth annual arts and crafts festival is held during the peak of the fall colors that grace the Cashiers Valley Plateau each year. Artisans gather along the curving walkway amid gardens of Dahlias and a permanent sculpture collection.
The Greater Cashiers Area Merchants Association (GCAMA) is busy planning for the 2014 sixth annual Leaf Festival, scheduled for Oct. 10-12, at the Village Green and Commons in Cashiers, N.C.
Held each year as the leaves begin to change in this beautiful mountain village nestled at 3,487 feet in elevation, this free event has grown tremendously since its inception in 2009.
This year’s festival expects to welcome more than 100 artisans and merchants scattered throughout the Village Green and Commons park, located directly in the center of Cashiers adjacent to the crossroads of Highways 64 and 107.
Visitors will find unique handcrafted wood, pottery, jewelry and much more on display and available for purchase throughout the weekend. There will be plenty of food and drinks available in both parking lots behind the two stages of the park, which will be filled with live music throughout the weekend.
Live music is scheduled from 12 to 5 p.m., on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 11-12 on two different stages. All of these shows are free and open to the public. Most of these performers are local and regional acts, ranging in genre from singer/songwriters, to jazz, blues, Americana, bluegrass, rock, soul, funk, and much more.
The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Friday, Oct. 10, and run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on both Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 11-12.
Event sponsorships, volunteers and vendor opportunities are still available for artisans, merchants, non-profits and more.
For more information about the 2014 GCAMA sixth annual Leaf Festival, visit www.visitcashiersvalley.com, e-mail [email protected], or call828-743-8 28.
Need Inspiration for Designing a Southern Rose Garden?
See images of a formal rose garden that Dargan Associates built on a terrace in the western North Carolina mountains — in our Houzz project book.
Click on Project Book in Houzz here
A Bark Sided Planter – at Dovecote
Bark sided planters are very hard to find!
This one was snapped up at Dovecote by the Hopper family of Cumming Georgia… The challenge was to fit it in their SUV! I told them the bees were free…
An Award for our North Carolina Garden Design offices….
We won!
Best in Show at the Bascom’s Mountains in Bloom show …
for a cutting from, Cornus mas variegata, the beautiful non-native tree growing in our Dovecote Garden! We purchased a set of these stunning trees at Chattooga Gardens last year and they are about 10′ tall now, flanking our weeping japanese maple. Beautiful clear white edged foliage and large red fruits for the fall. We’ve given it an A+ in our client’s gardens for years, and how nice to see it recognized in a show with the top award!!