Decades of Daylilies
byCheryl Alderman definitely knows her daylilies. What started as a ditch-digging expedition for a few blooms on the side of the road has grown…
Cheryl Alderman definitely knows her daylilies. What started as a ditch-digging expedition for a few blooms on the side of the road has grown…
First-time visitors to Sheila Dunn’s home in Weaverville are taken on what she laughingly refers to as “the forced march” over her “yard” on…
When Elaine and Bryan Young, owners of Urban Farm Girl Flowers in Black Mountain, left Birmingham a few years back, a blossoming flower-growing business…
People stop in front of Damaris and Ricki Pierce’s home on Wambolt Avenue in West Asheville all the time. They look at the…
Mary Lou Kemp, Chairperson of the Southern Appalachian Rock Garden Society (SARGS) shares her story of being bitten by the rock gardening bug, learning…
“Jack is a history guy,” says Millie McCandless with a smile. Her husband’s vintage-loving disposition is on full display as he shows off the…
Katie Grear looks out across the bare early-season fields of Lady Luck Flower Farm, watching her husband, Mike Adams, gently trickle fish emulsion over…
Nothing says “minimalist” quite like a handful of naked stalks set in a wooden bowl. But Ikebana, a 500-year-old style of Japanese plant and…
Bill Ryan and Jim Boyle weren’t exactly searching for their dream home when they came upon Stoney Lodge in the early spring of 1989….
He has human children at home, but to hear the gentlemanly Arthur Joura talk about his beloved bonsai charges at the North Carolina Arboretum…