Visit Daniel Boone Native Gardens!
The Daniel Boone Native Gardens, located near downtown Boone, N.C., contain an outstanding collection of native Appalachian trees, shrubs, and wildflowers. Hundreds of plant varieties provide a progression of blooms throughout the growing season.
Opened in 1966, the three-acre Daniel Boone Native Gardens were an educational and conservation effort to nurture rare or endangered Appalachian plant species.
A project of the Garden Club of N.C., Inc., these public gardens comprise a bog garden, fern garden, rhododendron grove, rock garden, rock wishing well, vine-covered arbor, pond alongside the historic Squire Boone Cabin, and several grand vistas. Wrought-iron gates at the entrance were made by a descendant of Daniel Boone, who hunted in the area.
For more information, visit: DanielBooneGardens.org!
To request a free High Country vacation guide, call (800) 438-7500 or go online to: www.MountainsofNC.com.
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Early Bird Wildflower Walk & Plant Sale – Daniel Boone Gardens on April 25th
The Daniel Boone Native Gardens in Boone will hold their second annual Early Bird Wildflower Walk & Plant Sale on Saturday, April 25, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission to this fundraising event is free, but donations to the nonprofit gardens are appreciated.
For wildflower enthusiasts this walk is a rare chance to enjoy some of the most spectacular early spring wildflowers of the Blue Ridge in a quiet, in-town setting; the gardens’ regular season begins May 1, daily through Oct. 31. The wildflower event is also a chance for gardeners in the High Country to buy top-quality locally grown plant material.
Some of the region’s top nursery growers will be on hand with a large variety of hardy native azaleas, rhododendrons, blueberries, dogwoods, and other flowering trees and shrubs, as well as perennial flowers, herbs, and vegetables.
The Daniel Boone Native Gardens are featured in the current April 2009 issue of Our State Magazine, which calls the 3-acre gardens “a trove of mountain blooms.” Spring blooms at the April 25 wildflower walk may include redbud, Virginia bluebell, shooting star, wild gingers, trout lily, dogwood, and wood anemone.
With a gift late last year of 120 plants from Lamtree Farms of Warrensville, many of them rare or endangered species grown locally, the gardens will be more beautiful than ever this spring. A Town of Boone grant has gone a long way toward getting the many shrubs, trees, and wildflowers planted throughout the gardens.
In addition to Lamtree Farms at the plant sale, growers include Alicia Breton of My Favorite Plants, the Tennessee Rose Native Azalea Nursery, Hickory Lane Gardens, and Shady Grove Gardens & Nursery.
The Shady Grove nursery will be taking advance orders for transplants of tomatoes and sweet peas; call 297-4098. Potted plant offerings will include mountain mint, echinacea, native honeysuckle, and hellebore.
For information see www.danielboonegardens.org or, for grower and vendor inquiries, call 828-264-1440.
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