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Register Now: 2022 WNC Gardening Symposium, October 12

August 28, 2022

Online registration is open, and tickets are selling quickly for the 2022 WNC Gardening Symposium, to be held October 12 at Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock, North Carolina.

Currently less than twenty-five tickets remain. The early-bird registration fee of $60 ends August 31. If you have not registered, but plan to attend, you should…Register Now! 

Our program will include the following interesting and delightful speakers:

  • Toni Gattoni, our keynote speaker, an adaptive gardening expert, a blogger, and author of The Lifelong Gardener: Garden With Ease and Joy At Any Age. You can follow Toni on Facebook and Instagram.  Visit https://tonigattone.com for inspiration, tools and resources for the resilient gardener. Her talks will be You Can Garden for Life and Create a Fire-Smart Landscape;
  • Preston Montague is an artist, educator, and landscape designer who developed a passion for the natural world while growing up in the rural foothills of Virginia. He will be talking about landscape design. Preston has generously donated a beautifully framed and autographed botanical print that will be raffled off at the symposium;
  • Brenda Rosbrook and Kay Campbell, The Shady Ladies of Raymond’s Garden Center, will present transitioning from Fall into Winter/Holiday container gardening by changing out different decorative items. Ideas include using obelisks, trellises, pumpkins and holiday themed items; and,
  • Sue Goetz, designer, speaker, author and owner of The Creative Gardener, is based in Tacoma, Washington. Sue is a certified professional horticulturist, the author of three books, The Herb Lover’s Spa Book,  A Taste of Herbs, Complete Container Herb Gardening and an award-winning designer. You can follow Sue on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.  Visit herbloversgarden.com for recipes and inspiration. Her motto “inspiring gardeners to create” will define her talk on A Taste of Herbs.

The symposium fee is $60 if you register by midnight on August 31 and $65 after that date. All registrations must be received by September 5.

Click here for more information and to register:
2022 WNC Gardening Symposium

 

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