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Garden Jubilee Festival
May 29 & 30, 2010 / 10:00am - 6:00 pm

Historic Downtown Hendersonville
(Sixth Avenue-Caswell Street)

Animals are Prohibited

The 17th Annual Garden Jubilee Festival is a spectacular two day festival that celebrates the growing season in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. This area provides a healthy environment for growing a vast variety of flowers and plants. The festival is held annually during the Memorial Day weekend in Historic Downtown Hendersonville. Garden Jubilee is the ideal festival for garden lovers searching for the perfect plants and unique lawn & garden accessories and arts & crafts. Bring a wagon or cart to make transporting your plants easier.

Garden Jubilee offers over 200 vendors selling handmade arts and crafts, 1000's of plants and items to enhance your outdoor living area. Nurseries selling many varieties of annuals, perennials, vegetables, trees, shrubs, and hard to find plants will be located on every block of the festival. A great way to enhance the beauty of a garden is to add garden ornamentation. Vendors will be located on the wide sidewalks of Historic Downtown Hendersonville from Sixth Avenue to Second Avenue. Main Street will be closed to traffic from Second Avenue to Caswell Street, with vendors lining both sides of the street. There will also be delicious food to satisfy any appetite in the food court, located between Barnwell & Caswell Streets.

Located at the Visitors Information Center, 201 South Main Street the Lowe's Expo will offer garden clinics, plants, a hands-on kids clinic and beautiful displays. Nationally known lawn and garden product specialists will be giving one-on-one advice. If you have a question or need advice about your garden or lawn, you've come to the right place. The Lowe's Kids Clinic located at the Visitors Information Center will offer free fun hands-on projects for children ages 4-12.

Bill Slack has been a landscape and gardening specialist with Southern Living Magazine for 17 years and is making his 8th appearance at Garden Jubilee. He will be giving clinics in the Lowe's lawn and garden tent located at the Visitors Information Center, 201 South Main Street. Mr. Slack will offer three talks on Saturday, May 29 -11:00 AM "Magnificent Landscape - Minimum Maintenance," 1:00 PM "A Southern Cottage Garden - Everyone's Favorite," and 3:00 PM "I Don't Know What to do with My Back Yard ," Sunday, May 30 - 1:00 PM "Magnificent Landscape - Minimum Maintenance", and 3:00 PM "A Southern Cottage Garden - Everyone's Favorite." He is a registered landscape architect, author and lecturer appearing on many national radio & TV programs. He was named the Outstanding Extension Landscape Architect in the United States by the American Society of Landscape Architects. Bill has completed his 19th publication Southern Living Garden Guide to Landscaping. In between Mr. Slack's talks, product representatives from Scott's, Spectracide, Pennington Lawn & Garden Products and Old Castle will give informative talks and helpful tips.

Please leave your pets comfortably at home as a Hendersonville City ordinance prohibits animals in the event area.

For information call Henderson County Travel & Tourism at (828) 693-9708 / 800-828-4244. For lodging or area information visit www.historichendersonville.org.

Garden Jubilee is event of Henderson County Travel & Tourism.

Sponsored by

Lowe's Home Improvement
Golf Cart Center & Affordable Equipment Rental
Henderson County Travel & Tourism

 

Schedule

Saturday, May 29
10:00AM-6:00PM Street Festival (6th Ave. - Caswell St.) arts & crafts, plants and food
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Lowe's Kids Clinic, Located at the Visitors Information Center (201 S. Main St.)

Lowe's Garden Clinics with Bill Slack at the Visitors Information Center (201 S. Main St.)
   11:00 AM "Magnificent Landscape - Minimum Maintenance"
     1:00 PM "A Southern Cottage Garden - Everyone's Favorite"
     3:00 PM "I Don't Know What to do with My Back Yard "

Sunday, May 30
10:00AM-6:00PM Street Festival (6th Ave. - Caswell St.) arts & crafts, plants and food
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Lowe's Kids Clinic, Located at the Visitors Information Center (201 S. Main St.)

Lowe's Garden Clinics with Bill Slack at the Visitors Information Center (201 S. Main St.)
  1:00 PM "Magnificent Landscape - Minimum Maintenance"
  3:00 PM "A Southern Cottage Garden - Everyone's Favorite"

 

Download the 2010 Garden Jubilee Schedule


 

Vendor Information
If you are interested in being a vendor at the Garden Jubilee Festival you must meet the following criteria and meet the requirements of the Garden Jubilee committee.

There are 3 categories of vendors: Crafts, Nursery and Food.
 
Craft Vendors: 
Merchandise must be garden related handmade arts & crafts or lawn & garden accessories.
 
Nursery Vendors: Annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs, trees, shrubs, hard to find plants and garden related merchandise
 

Food Vendors:  Must have current insurance and meet The Health Department's temporary food vendor regulations.
 
To inquire about participating in the Garden Jubilee, email, call or mail a description of all of your merchandise.

SELECTION PROCESS:
PLEASE NOTE:  We do not send applications in response to each request. Applicants work must meet the festival requirements and quality of items. Acceptance is at the discretion of the festival commitee.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Henderson County Travel & Tourism
Attn: Special Event Office
201 South Main Street
Hendersonville, NC 28792
800-828-4244 or 828-693-9708
Fax: 828-697-4996

festinfo@bellsouth.net

 
 
Garden Jubilee Official Web Site
 


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