Mountain Ivy Garden Club
Clayton, GA — The Mountain Ivy Garden Club is hosting Celebrate Spring: a Garden Symposium, on Friday, April 11, at the Rabun County Civic Center, at 201 W. Savannah St. in downtown Clayton.
The event is from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. with registration at 8 a.m. Tickets, which are being sold in advance, are $75 per person and include lunch from Clayton Cafe.
For ticket information, contact Nancy at 706-982-0539.
The day-long event will feature expert speakers, demonstrations, a plant market, door prizes, raffles and a variety of garden-related vendors and activities.
Horticulturist and writer Scott Beuerlein, manager of botanical outreach at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, will speak on Favorite Plants From Favorite Gardens. Scott is a widely published writer who has interviewed some of the country’s top horticulturists for a variety of magazines as well as a regular humor column in Horticulture Magazine and the Garden Views.
Adam Bigelow, noted botanist and horticulturist, will share his expertise on Native Plants in the Landscape. Bigelow, a resident of Cullowhee, N.C., has been studying plants and wildflowers of Appalachia for more than 20 years. He is the proprietor of Bigelow’s Botanical Excursions, an ecotour business that leads interpretive plant walks in Western N.C.
Brannen Basham, with his wife Jill Jacobs, owns Spriggly’s Beescaping, a nature education and habitat restoration business in Western N.C. They have published two books, A Guide to the Wonderful World Around Us: Notes on Nature, and Finding Home: A Story of a Mason Bee, with more on the way. In addition, Brannen’s topic of discussion is Native Bees and the Habitat They Require.
Erin Getzelman, Georgia Tech’s director of sustainability engagement, will share her expertise on Sustainability in the Landscape. Erin oversees programs and initiatives that connect students, staff and the broader campus community to sustainability practices. She also manages the campus community garden, thrift store and farmers market.
All profits go the club’s scholarship fund, which provides college scholarships annually to Rabun County High School Students pursuing degrees in the agriculture sciences.
For tickets, contact Nancy at 706-982-0539 or visit us on Facebook.