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The World in Miniature ! Workshops in Miniature Gardening

The Garden World in Miniature!

Tomorrow, we have an ‘on demand’, an open miniature gardens workshop at Dovecote in Cashiers, NC ! Please join us at 10 am, July 29. Just come and bring whatever…a $15 set up includes drilling holes in containers, drainage rocks, potting soil, some ground cover ( moss & small sedums) and … magic. Any age is welcome. 10-noon.

Karla Sidey's miniature garden 2016

Yesterday, Karla Sidey brought her Scaly Mountain Woman’s Club for a private session. She made a miniature garden at Dovecote complete with a home-crafted waterfall. …the club held workshops to prepare for the magical planting and building session. Her tableaux is pictured to the left. Love it!

The club even made little houses with leaf pressed clay roofs and imprinted sides…just adorable! I’ve never had a group study up and bring creative containers for precious little buildings…just add water, plants and magic!

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CLICK HERE FOR a link to my recent lecture on Miniature Gardens. It has all my secrets.

Enjoy your summer. xx mp

Cookin’ on the Wild Side! July 8 at 10 am Facebook Live

Cookin’ on the Wild Side is here and live tomorrow, July 8 at 10 am.

Watch from your facebook page !

Dovecote Porch & Gardens in Cashiers NC is hosting. Friend Dovecote’s page and join us for the informative demonstration!

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Wild Cooking? What is this?  

Also known as Wildcrafting, it means you use locally sourced and harvested elements from nature in your meal preparation. It might be elderflowers for a frisky drink, or sour grapes to perk up your palette!

 

This summer our Garden Talk Salon theme is Nature’s Kitchen.

Food has never tasted so good. In the Smokies in early June, we practiced several dishes on a camping trip. Roast Duck, Ramp cornbread, Allspice butternut squash. Ila Hatter, our lady of the woods, also shared her secrets of chestnut bread and elderflower fritters, plus grape vine wrapped trout. Donna Oliver, from Virginia, brought her family to sample the fare!

Our demonstration will be over open flame using cast iron cookware. Only room for a very small group of cooking enthusiasts since I’m trying new dishes!

On August 30, Ila Hatter will speak at the Village Green on Mother Nature’s Secret Kitchen, and we are sponsoring the foraging tasting which follows her lecture.

To save your spot Please click here to join us at Wild Cooking : Main Dishes on July 8 at 10 am

 

 

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! 

Jeff Zahner Part 1 shrubs edible 5-27-16

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