Dovecote’s Summer Garden Talk Salon kicked off with a splendid lecture by Jeffrey Zahner, proprietor of Chattooga Gardens in Cashiers, NC on June 5, 2014. His topic: Evergreens for Mountain Landscapes.
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New Event at Dovecote: Aug 6 ~ Design a Showhouse Garden: Mundane into Magnificent
How to transform the mundane into the magnificent?
Join us and pitch in to help make The Cashiers Decorator Showhouse: Hilliard House into a garden gem. Just call Mary Palmer at 828-743-0307 to reserve your spot, and bring your gloves, a shovel and creative juices. Meet at 10 am at Dovecote on August 6 ( please note the new date).
Installation began July 24 and we have the entire front of the house to do plus waterfall, sculptures and flowers. Please come one come all and help fluff and puff!
Garden Ideas in North Carolina: A Video on Dahlias
Dovecote’s Summer Garden Talk Salon second lecture presented a splendid lecture by Erin Dillard Watson on Dahlias. Erin is the second generation proprietor of Scotlyn’s Yard in Cashiers, NC. This video was filmed in June 2014.
This video on North Carolina gardening covered:
- propagating & harvesting
- pruning and clening up, staking
- how many per pot to start a container
- history of Scotlyn’s Yard Nursery
- … and an amazing Q&A session!
Landscape Design Courses – A Success Story!
Dargan Landscape Associates regularly teach landscape design classes and workshops — as well as offering a series of landscape design books. Some of our students do very well for themselves, like the Lalleys!
They recently won a prize for a gardening design contest sponsored by the Baltimore Sun. For more about the story, read here.
A Video – Tutorial for a Miniature Garden
Mary Palmer Dargan recently gave a workshop on Making Miniature Gardens. Here’s a video of part of the presentation (below). In addition, check out our miniature garden products on the Dovecote page.
Some items that Mary Palmer covered during her mini gardens tutorial:
- miniature garden design for pathways
- materials to use for believable and realistic walkways
- what to use for fountains!
- learning from children
- trees and backdrops to give scale & enclosure to these very special places!