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Ideas on Creating Unique Fairy Gardens: A Video

At a recent workshop on creating miniature gardens, these four creative geniuses made quick work creating a cottage garden, aviary garden, butterfly garden and birder’s cottage!

Mini-garden design workshop at Dovecote from Mary Palmer Dargan on Vimeo.

Join Mary Palmer for a workshop at Dovecote in Cashiers, NC at 10 a.m., June 19. For more information, and to order tickets, see: https://dargan.com/dovecote-events/

Interested in creating your own miniature garden? See https://dargan.com/dovecote-garden-porch/dovecote/miniature-garden-furnishings/

 

 

Minitiature Gardens – A Fun Guide

Miniature Gardens has become a special passion for Mary Palmer Dargan. Here’s a guide to creating minitiature gardens — including 8 Essential (and magical!) Ingredients to create a fairy garden. Click on the image below to download the guide to creating fairy gardens:

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June 12 Erin Dillard Watson: Grow Glowing Dahlias from Summer to Fall!

Erin Dillard Watson: Grow Glowing Dahlias from Summer to Fall! 

Mystified by Dahlias? Why are dahlias so popular? When do they bloom, how big do they get, what is their care, what colors…Don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater in the fall?  Learn some tips from the expert! 

A field trip to Scotlyn’s Yard on Hwy 107 follows this garden salon, so wear your casual clothes, bring an umbrella and have fun. Limit 12.

No fee. 

Lunch at Cornucopia afterwards to meet new friends (dutch treat). LOCATION: Dovecote Porch & Gardens  McKinney Way (35 Flash Point Drive, Cashiers, NC 28717) off Cashiers School Road next to Cornucopia. Please follow the signs to park.

For more information & parking map here. Download a map.

A Note from Mary Palmer – after our May 29 Salon in Cashiers

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After our May 29 event in Cashiers, Mary Palmer sent this note to everyone who came to her talk on design for mountain gardens:

Moyer Albergatti won my masters thesis copy of the Early English Kitchen Garden. Moyer hails from Anderson SC, is in real estate and has a home in Lancewood in Cashiers. Artist, Carroll Rivers, from Charleston and High Hampton won the birdbath. Several of you asked how to reach her to see the studio: Her phone is (828) 743-3334 and studio is on Wade Road ” Headquarters of the Rivers”. The URL for the May 29 lecture video is: https://vimeo.com/96906221 so enjoy a home version of Empowered Mountain Gardens. I am transcribing this lecture, so will send that link eventually to you! If you want another gift of landscape design, please visit www.dargan.com and fill in the request for “The 5 secrets for immediately improving your property” at the top of the page. I look forward to seeing you in Cashiers/Highlands area again this summer. Please visit Dovecote Porch and Gardens, next to Cornucopia and visit our public gardens anytime! Remember
we have an honesty box at the office front door if we are not there and you can sack your own goodies and write a receipt in the little shop. …and remember we provide Master Plans and consultations regularly year-round.