Art, Music, Plants and Fairies in the Garden

Fairy Castle at WoodlandsSeptember through October
Paintings by Edie Morton
Edie Morton created Floating Gardens as part of the Wilderness Act Performance Series in honor of the 50th anniversary of this landmark legislation. Her encaustic paintings, using layers of beeswax, resin and pigments, draw inspiration from the patterns and shapes of wings, leaves and bark. The exhibit opened in September and will continue through October.

Sunday Oct. 12, 2014

Sweet Music in the Pavilion

2 – 3 pm  Ashley Filip is an Atlanta singer-songwriter who has been performing since she was 14.  Ashley’s songs are stories of family, spirituality, and relationships.  She counts as influences the storytelling tradition of country and folk music and the music of Aretha Franklin, Alison Krauss, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin, Lauryn Hill, and Brad Paisley.

3 – 4 pm   The Fabulous Pinkie Sisters, who range in age from 11 to 14, are Decatur singer-songwriter Allison Adams’ guitar and ukulele students. They are Ava Chester, Isabella Beeson, Anna Mahany, Alice Goddard, and Paige Garcia. Allison named them the Fabulous Pinkie Sisters because they all can do fabulous things with their pinkie fingers on their guitars and ukuleles.

Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014
Fairies in the Garden
Clients of Skyland Trail’s therapeutic horticultural program will once again bring their Fairies in the Garden installation to Woodlands. Visitors to this annual event will discover tiny fairy dwellings built from bark, twigs, branches, seed heads, leaves and other natural materials, tucked in sheltered nooks along the garden’s paths.

Oct. 16-Nov. 2, 2014
Photography by Virginie Kippelen and Shannon Davis
Urban Wilderness + Man-Made Nature is part of the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival. Photographers Virginie Kippelen and Shannon Davis will display large format photographs along the trails. This annual citywide festival, the largest annual community-oriented photo festival in the United States, strives to provide experiences that engage and educate diverse audiences through lens-based media.

At all these events visitors can purchase a variety of trees, shrubs and perennials from Woodlands Garden’s Fall Plant Sale. Choose from trees and shrubs that include seedlings of the area’s champion bigleaf magnolia plus Japanese maple, dogwood, redbud, American holly, Virginia sweetspire, and elderberry. There will be perennials such as celandine poppy,
passionflower vine, arum, hellebore, euphorbia, and ginger lily, and other plants passed along by friends of the garden. Buyers help support Woodlands Garden and take home plants proven to thrive in the Decatur area.

Woodlands Garden is at 932 Scott Blvd. Directions and additional information can be found here.

Fall Plant Sale Continues to Amaze Us

Time for the Fall Plant Sale at Woodlands

2 – 4 pm Sundays in October, 2 – 5 pm Saturday October 18th 
Amazing donated plants keep rolling in, and amazing new and repeat customers continue to find treasures for their gardens.  Even if you’ve already found a few new plants for your yard, come this Sunday to find more.  Our volunteer gardeners have collected seedlings from Woodlands trees, brought plants from their own gardens, and secured donations from many nearby nurseries.  We’ll keep selling these gorgeous specimens through October 26th.

 

The Show Must Go On

It’s raining steadily in Tucker, probably in Decatur also.  But our friends at weather.com say that it will start to dry up by 1 pm.  That means by 2 pm we can definitely listen to music in the pavilion.

See you there!

Claire

2014 Accomplishments

Claire Hayes, Woodlands Director, left, and Ruby Bock, Woodlands Garden Manager, right, offer “cups of gratitude” to Stephen Wood and Edie Morton, founder and visual artist of the Wilderness Act Performance Series
Claire Hayes, Woodlands Director, left, and Ruby Bock, Woodlands Garden Manager, right, offer “cups of gratitude” to Stephen Wood and Edie Morton, founder and visual artist of the Wilderness Act Performance Series

2014 has been busy!  Perhaps most exciting, Woodlands is taking steps to purchase a one-acre parcel next door.  This property will provide safe appealing access from Scott and Clairemont, double our parking, and create a beautiful entrance to the City of Decatur.

Woodlands was chosen to be one of only five venues for the Wilderness Act Performance Series, celebrating our country’s dedication to preserving its wild green spaces. Woodlands led the development of “Garden Go Seek,” now a project of the City of Decatur, inviting children to explore the city’s greenspaces and gardens.

Woodlands also hosted Urban Wilderness + Man-Made Nature, an exhibit of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, by photographers Virginie Kippelen and Shannon Davis.  Our partners at Skyland Trail for the fourth time brought delicate fairy houses to tuck along our trails.  Our volunteer gardeners masterminded a native plant sale that raised over $3,600.

Pictured, left to right: Ruby Bock, Woodlands Garden Manager; Patty Bonner, Woodlands Vice-president; Gary White, Georgia Forestry Commission; Claire Hayes, Woodlands Executive Director; Rob Ryan, GUFC President
Pictured, left to right: Ruby Bock, Woodlands Garden Manager; Patty Bonner, Woodlands Vice-president; Gary White, Georgia Forestry Commission; Claire Hayes, Woodlands Executive Director; Rob Ryan, GUFC President

In 2013, the Georgia Urban Forestry Council honored Woodlands Garden for its unique preservation of urban forest and the ensuing environmental and educational benefits brought to the community. We also opened the Garden to the public full time.