A FREE Daily Visitor Guide for the North Carolina Mountains and 50+ NC Mountain Cities: Memorial Day Weekend Events: Plant and Flower Festivals

Friday, May 27, 2011

Memorial Day Weekend Events: Plant and Flower Festivals

The NC Mountains are in full peak for Spring foliage and blossoms on Memorial Day Weekend. It's a beautiful time to be in the mountains and also the right time to get herbs, flowers and other plants for your own garden. Festivals, Farmer's Markets and local growers abound with starters and information to "green-up" your world.

May 28 - 29 Hendersonville NC hosts the 18th Annual Garden Jubilee Festival including over 200 vendors selling thousands of plants, arts and crafts along with garden talks, clinics, garden accessories, and food. The festival covers 8 blocks of Main Street from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM both days. The festival is always held during the Memorial Day weekend. Hendersonville NC.

May 28 - 29 The Banner Elk Herb Festival features Fantastic Spring herbs, great local bands, lots of arts and crafts vendors, farmers market items, a kid zone and of course thousands of herb plants for sale. The festival benefits the local volunteer firefighters. BAnner Elk NC.

May 28 - 29 Annual Asheville-Blue Ridge Rose Society Exhibition This popular event features award-winning roses of every color and size. Experts will be on hand to answer questions and provide information about selection, care and history of these elegant garden plants. A sale will be held in conjunction with the exhibition, which will include rose plants, fertilizer, and soil amendments.

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