News & Updates
Summer Gardener’s Corner
With Director of Horticulture Eric Kimbrel At the transition to warm summer, we begin looking for fruit and seed production on plants so that we can be ready to collect...
2022 Native Plant Sale
It's time again for our annual Native Plant Sale! Please join us on August 26th, and bring home some of the native plants featured in the garden of Southern...
New Pollinators for Brevard Dog Park
Though butterflies would win the beauty pageants and bees would dominate prizes for work ethic, all manner of insects are important — and all depend on flowering plants...
Phenology Phases in Full Force
Spring in the garden means a bustle of emergence and departure, a flurry of wardrobe changes, peeking and peaking, buzzing and alighting, bursting and retreating. Here...
Gardener’s Corner
A gardener in spring is like a kid on Christmas morning, with newly decorated trees leafing out over plants and flowers opening like gifts. Most gardeners bide their...
Volunteer of the Year!
We are thrilled to announce Robb Turner as SHR’s 2020 volunteer of the year. This is Robb’s second year in a row to earn this honor and we are mighty fortunate to have...
Outreach with TC Henderson Elementary
Our partnership with TC Henderson Elementary (“TCH”) began in the fall of 2019 after we received a grant from the Pisgah Health Foundation. Prior to the grant...
Gardener’s Corner
Director of Horticulture, Eric Kimbrel With the leaves now gone, we can make proper pruning cuts, eliminating bad branch structure in trees and shrubs. Dead branches...
Stewards of an Endangered, Prehistoric Tree
Torreya taxifolia Safeguarding Project It is our responsibility to the land and our ecosystem to do everything we possibly can to help endangered plants and animals...