2024 PLANT SALES & PROGRAMS
These sales take place in venues around Asheville, and Hendersonville, NC. If you live locally in this area, these are great opportunities to buy pollinator-friendly plants from local grower, Kim Bailey who owns Milkweed Meadows Farm in Fruitland, NC. I will be joining her for some of these events. If you come by, please introduce yourself! And let me know you follow my blog. I’d love to meet you!
Saturday, March 30, 12 – 5 PM
Gardening for Life Celebration
Polk County High School, 1681 NC-108, Columbus, NC
Saturday, April 20, 9 AM – 3 PM
The French Broad River Garden Club Annual Plant Sale
1000 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC
Friday, May 3, 12 – 6 PM
The Botanical Gardens at Asheville Spring Plant Sale
151 W.T. Weaver Blvd., Asheville, NC
Saturday, May 4, 9 AM – 2 PM
Montreat Native Plant Sale & Arbor Day Celebration
Moore Center Field (below Lake Susan), Montreat, NC
Sunday, May 5
Fiesta Hendersonville & International Children’s Day
Downtown, Hendersonville, NC
Saturday, May 11, 8 AM – 1 PM
Hendersonville Farmers Market
Historic Train Depot, 650 Maple Street, Hendersonville, NC
Sunday, May 19, 12-5 PM
“May Flowers” Blue Ridge Artisan Market @ Trailside Brewing Co.
Trailside Brewing Co., 873 Lenox Park Dr., Hendersonville, NC
Saturday, May 25 & Sunday, May 26, 9 AM – 5 PM
Garden Jubilee
Main Street, Hendersonville, NC
Friday, May 31 & Saturday, June 1, 10 AM – 3 PM
NC Arboretum Spring Plant Sale & Market
100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC
Saturday, June 8, 8 AM – 1 PM
Hendersonville Farmers Market
Historic Train Depot, 650 Maple Street, Hendersonville, NC
Thursday, August 15, 1 PM
TBA Pollinator Program at The Lanier Library
Program description TBA.
72 Chestnut Street, Tryon, NC
Monday, September 9, 6 PM – 7:30 PM
Certified Pollinator Advocate (CPA) Course: All About Monarchs & Their Migration
Talk about picky eaters! Monarch butterflies have captured the imagination of young and old with their exclusive milkweed diet and unfathomable migration from Canada to Mexico. This class will cover everything from milkweed seed collection and stratification to species options for different settings, dangers of tropical milkweed, the milkweed insect community, raising monarchs responsibly, reporting monarch sightings, and tagging monarchs.
Asheville Botanical Gardens, 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd., Asheville, NC
Saturday, September 14, 9 AM – 3 PM
The Botanical Gardens at Asheville Fall Plant Sale
151 W.T. Weaver Blvd., Asheville, NC
Saturday, September 21, 8 AM – 1 PM
Hendersonville Farmers Market
Historic Train Depot, 650 Maple Street, Hendersonville, NC
Friday, September 27 & Saturday, September 28, 10 AM – 3 PM
NC Arboretum Spring Plant Sale & Market
100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC
TBA, February 2025 (Registration will open in May and close by September 30, 2024)
Migration of the Monarch Butterflies in Mexico Trip (sample 2024 itinerary)
Morelia, Angangueo, & Macheros, Mexico
(Sierra Chincua, El Rosario, and Cerro Pelón Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserves)