http://www.westashevillegardens.com Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:05:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Gardens Of 2010 We have a wonderful group of gardens selected for you this year! http://www.westashevillegardens.com/gardens/2010-gardens/ Landscaping at the West Asheville library includes a mix of deciduous trees along the street and an eye-pleasing combination of shrubs and perennials around the building.  Plantings include rhododendron, azalea, rose of Sharon, St. John’s wort, pansies, viola, ferns, lemon balm, salvia, coneflower, soapwort, gooseneck loosestrife, and many others.  Plantings are ... http://www.westashevillegardens.com/gardens/1-west-asheville-library-924-haywood-road/ For three years, 15 families have been working cooperatively on a plot of about 1/4 acre, and they’re growing!  This year, they added 10,000 square feet, a gazebo, a bean teepee, stone stairs, and a rainwater irrigation system.  They're growing potatoes, pumpkins, cutting flowers, basil, greens, tomatoes, melons, sweet potatoes, ... http://www.westashevillegardens.com/gardens/2-falconhurst-community-garden-61-blue-ridge-avenue/ After almost three years in the ongoing process of developing a garden, Katie Doan and Brian Abercrombie are beginning to get a sense of where their garden is going.  Holding their intention to grow native plants and provide habitat for birds and pollinators, they ... http://www.westashevillegardens.com/gardens/2010-03-winging-it/ In four short years, but spending a lot of time in their garden, Richard and Wanda Baird have planted hundreds of bulbs, many diverse perennials, daylilies, and many varieties of the hostas.  In their backyard, they enjoy a large koi pond with a hundred koi and a variety of water ... http://www.westashevillegardens.com/gardens/2010-04-the-baird%e2%80%99s-garden/ In 2009 Val and David Kula began to transform what had been an overgrown rental into their West Asheville home.  Redoing the entire house and adding an addition was followed by bulldozing weedy lawns to make a clean slate (and to tame overgrown bamboo) so Val could make the garden ... http://www.westashevillegardens.com/gardens/2010-05-val%e2%80%99s-joy/ A few years back Amy & Eric Blau tilled up their entire front yard and planted a row of crape myrtles, Korean spice viburnum and American beauty bush.  Now their garden includes native spring ephemerals such as jack-in-the-pulpit, trillium and Solomon's seal.  For summer color, they have ... http://www.westashevillegardens.com/gardens/2010-06-the-blau-garden/ Judith Beers’ backyard receives a lot of sun and it was perfect for an edible (and organic) garden.  Removing the lawn, she installed raised beds which she filled with an eclectic mix of plants in her attempt to be more self-sufficient.  She dug beds for herbs and bulbs, and over ... http://www.westashevillegardens.com/gardens/201-07-judith%e2%80%99s-garden/ This garden was started end of May, 2010, as a demonstration project to show part of the process of converting lawn to gardens.  Specifically, Jim Smith used sheet-mulching (aka lasagna gardening), where layering of cardboard, newspaper and straw and/or alfalfa hay initiates a process of transformation.  Visitors can see the ... http://www.westashevillegardens.com/gardens/2010-08-good-earth-organics-garden/ In Bryan Freeborn and Bridgett O’Hara’s garden, kids pick and eat beans, berries, tomatoes and mint leaves and even catch bugs to feed their toads.  It all began in 2004 by ripping up the grass and planting sunflowers in the front yard which attracted tiny yellow ... http://www.westashevillegardens.com/gardens/2010-09-freeborn%e2%80%99s-farm/