Garden Jubilee Festival in Hendersonville

If you love plants, downtown Hendersonville, NC is the place to be for the 16th Annual Garden Jubilee Festival this weekend, May 23 – 24, 2009.

More than 125 vendors will offer handmade arts and crafts, plants and items to enhance your outdoor living area. Nurseries selling many varieties of annuals, perennials, vegetables, trees, shrubs, and hard to find plants will be located on every block of the festival from Sixth Avenue to Second Avenue.

Bill Slack, a landscape and gardening specialist with Southern Living Magazine, will make his 7th apperance at Garden Jubilee. He will give clinics in the Lowe’s lawn and garden tent located at the Visitors Information Center, 201 South Main Street. Mr. Slack will offer three talks on Saturday, and two on Sunday.

Saturday, May 23:

*11:00 AM “A Picture Perfect Landscape,“

*1:00 PM “Pathways, Patios & Plants: Southern Living’s Finishing Touches,”

*3:00 PM “Container Gardening – Secrets of the Pros,

“Sunday, May 24 -

*1:00 PM “A Picture Perfect Landscape” 

* 3:00 PM”Pathways, Patios & Plants: Southern Living’s Finishing Touches.”

The Lowe’s Kids Clinic located at the Visitors Information Center (both days) will offer fun hands-on projects for children ages 4-12.

White Squirrel Festival

The town of Brevard, NC will be hopping this weekend with the 6th annual White Squirrel Festival. Check the website for the lineup of lots of FREE music, fun, and of course, attention on the area’s famous albino squirrels.

The Southeast Tourism Society has named this festival a Top 20 Event for the month of May 2009. Plus, Asheville Citizen-Times readers voted the festival “Best Spring Music Festival in Western North Carolina” in a 2008 poll.