From the Buncombe Master Gardeners:
This year’s fall Gardening Symposium will be open to the public for the first time. It will be held at the Doubletree Hotel, Biltmore at 115 Hendersonville Road, Biltmore, in Asheville from 8:00 a.m. (registration and a continental breakfast) to 4:30. The cost is $50. if you register by September 15th, and $55.00 after that.
The featured and always entertaining speaker will be Carol Reese, Ornamental Horticultural Specialist with the University of Tennessee. She will open the program with a talk titled ”A Botanical Version of Peyton Place, aka Sex in the Garden”, and will close with “Ordinary Plants with Extraordinary Stories”. Six Master Gardeners will be leading breakout sessions at 10:30 and 1:30. Lunch, and a dessert break are included in the fee for the day.
During the lunch, David Cosso will talk about “Excited About the Hidden Harvest”. To find out more about the Symposium, and pull up the application form go to: http:buncombemastergardener.org/
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