Thank you! M.A.Y. Fair

Thank you for helping to make M.A.Y. Fair a success!

A big HIGH FIVE goes out to the sponsors for their financial support (listed below), the M.A.Y. Fair Planning Committee, day of volunteers, Youth Artists, Young Musicians, and all the visitors who braved the rain to cheer on these amazingly talented youth!

Pictures from the event can be found on the Garden’s Facebook page here. Please add your pictures and share with friends!

Hope to see you next year at M.A.Y. Fair 2017 and sign here for our e-newsletter so you’ll be the first to know when the call for artists, musicians, & volunteers is live.

Thanks again from the Woodlands staff & M.A.Y. Fair Planning Committee: Laura Beeson, Lauren Bock, Jean Gay, and Nancy Martin

We’d like to thank our wonderful sponsors for partnering with us for our first M.A.Y.Fair!

“BLUE RIBBON” SPONSORS

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“ROCK STAR” SPONSORS

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Upcoming Events

Summer and Fall 2017

Join us in the garden for a host of fun events:

  • Yoga In Nature (taking place up until November):
    • on Thursdays with Michelle from 6:30 pm in the Pavilion
    • on Saturdays with Aditi from 4:00 pm in the Pavilion
  • Fall Plant Sales
    • On select Sundays from 1:00pm – 4:30pm
      • September 17, 24 and October 1, 8, 15
  • Music in the Garden from 2-4 pm
    • September 24 with Blackfoot Daisy
    • October 1 with Libby Eason and David Gibson
    • October 8 with Ben Wakeman
    • October 15 with Ashley Filip and Friends
    • October 22 with Steve Cullen, George Eckard, Don Fay
    • October 29 with Charles Absher, Matt Donald, Billy Gewin
    • November 5 with Frank Hamilton School of Music
  • Fairies in the Garden on Saturday, October 7th from 2-4:30 pm
  • ‘Atlanta’s Old Growth and Original Forests’ Presentation and Walk with Kathryn Kolb on Sunday, October 15 from 2-4pm
    • More details and RSVP found here
  • SOLD OUT: “Fall Native Plants of Georgia” presented by Linda Chafin on Sunday, November 12 from 2-4pm
    • More details and RSVP found here

 

 

Yoga in Nature with Michelle
On Thursdays beginning June 1
6:30-7:30pm
Garden’s Pavilion
Donations Welcome
Join us on Thursdays (starting June 1) for a relaxing session of Yoga from 6:30 – 7:30pm. Michelle Fiory, yoga instructor, will work on breathing, warm-up and stretches to develop strength and flexibility that will tide you through the rest of the week. The classes will be free, but we invite donations for the garden. All are welcome! Please bring a mat, water, and a small towel.
Yoga in Nature with Aditi
On Saturdays beginning June 24
4:00-5:00pm
Garden’s Pavilion
Donations Welcome
Join us on Saturdays (starting June 24) for a relaxing session of Yoga from 4:00-5:00pm. The classes will be free, but we invite donations for the garden. All are welcome! Please bring a mat, water, and a small towel.

 

Sundays from 2-4pm
Performers and dates found here
Garden’s Pavilion
Free
Our garden concerts take place on numerous Sundays in the spring, summer and fall from 2-4pm. Most performers are local musicians. Other music events occur as announced in our Events Calendar. You can find the 2017 concert schedule here.

Plant Sale Committee 2016: Volunteer with us

Dear plant purchaser and Garden supporter,

Last fall you kindly purchased some plants from the Woodlands Garden Fall Plant Sale. We hope you managed to get your plants into the ground before winter set in, and that they will soon be showing some new spring growth. Thank you for supporting this volunteer-led effort and for planting a piece of Woodlands in your home garden!

We had interesting garden-related conversations with many of you including offers of various help and support in making our Fall Plant Sale of 2016 an even greater fundraising success. We would love to include plants you’d be willing to donate from your yard so please be in touch if you have any interesting natives, perennials, ferns, shrubs and even small trees you’d like to contribute. We don’t sell invasive plants and don’t have much demand for spring bloomers, though specimen in fall bloom or shade lovers are typically hot sellers. Keep in mind these plants would need to be potted up this spring in order to be established by the time we sell them in September / October. If you have questions about a plant you’d like to donate feel free to reach out to us and we’ll be happy to provide help identifying next steps for this donation.

The Plant Sale is run by all volunteers, and last year we raised over $5,000! This funding will help Woodlands invest in new and unusual native plants, while also improving facilities for visitors, who can enjoy the garden for free from dawn to dusk year-round. There are many volunteer opportunities at Woodlands – Plant Sale related and much more – so please consider getting involved by completing this online volunteer application.

Please visit this spring and see our wonderful collection of native azaleas, or a little later in the year for the hydrangeas, and if you wander the trails on a Sunday afternoon there will likely be live music wafting through the trees. Visit our online event calendar here to learn more about upcoming programs for all ages.

Please visit Woodland’s website for information regarding events at Woodlands or general volunteer opportunities. If you can offer us any kind of assistance with the Woodlands plant sale (mid-September to late October) please contact one of the following volunteers. We would welcome your involvement!

Thanks for doing business with us and we look forward to meeting you again at Woodlands.

Sincerely,

Margaret Else – melse1@me.com
Pat Godbee – ptgodbee@gmail.com
Bonnie Phelps – bonniebphelps@gmail.com

Plant Sale Volunteer Coordinators – Woodlands Garden

Come join the fun…Volunteer with Woodlands Garden: https://forms.gle/T7QPRvWr9CpEG5gXA

Winter at Woodlands

How often do you get to come across a garden in full bloom around this time of the year? While most of our plants take a break for the winter, our Camellia garden is at its colorful best now. Take a walk through to see the pretty flowers in a range of reds, pinks and whites.

Our Hellebore blooms are just starting to peep out. The Holly trees are filled with their characteristic red berries, the beech trees are still holding on to their fall colors and our lovely Egdeworthia chrysantha, commonly known as Paperbush, has its cream yellow flowers on display. Earlier this month, we spotted ice ribbons on our Frostweed (images below). The Verbesina virginica, known as Frostweed, Virginia Crownbeard and Iceplant, have dark green leaves and bright white flowers that usually bloom in late summer. However, they have a bloom of a different sort in the winter. The stems let out water that freezes into fascinating shapes to form ribbons of ice in the colder weather.

 

Woodlands in the news

We were really excited and proud to see our garden featured on the pages of the latest issue of the Horticulture Magazine! Check out the feature on our Champion Devil’s Walking Stick:

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Garden Activity

While we will be trying to keep warm for the next couple of month, there is the winter clean-up that we have on our checklist for this season. We usually try to step out on the days we can spot a good bit of sun. So write in to ruby@woodlandsgarden.com if you would like to volunteer and join us in the garden. For more details about our volunteer opportunities, click here.

 

Give Where You Live

 

Do you need a breath of fresh air, a place to ponder, or are you just looking for a walk among the wildflowers and trees? Donate to Woodlands Garden to maintain and grow this greenspace.  A donation could be funds, time, elbow grease, or your talent like you see here…

GIVE where you live

 

Virginia Twinam Smith was long-time member and exhibiting photographer with Women In Focus and the Atlanta Photography Group (APG), and a patron of our green space. In her declining years, she found comfort and respite in Woodlands Garden’s urban sanctuary. She missed her former spacious home and busy life. So, after a morning of doctors’ appointments and therapies, Virginia would spend some time in the garden. Here, she would witness the familiar seasonal changes and blooms, connecting with lifelong rhythms and drinking in the natural beauty.

Virginia passed away earlier this year, and donated a collection of her photographs and works to Woodlands Garden. Virginia’s daughter says, “My mother was a giver in life, helping to found the local chapter of the Herb Society and serving as a docent at the High and at the Tullie Smith House. Giving her works to Woodlands, with the purpose that her pictures will aid in fundraising, means that her generosity can continue beyond her temporal life.”

Photograph by Beate Sass
Photograph by Beate Sass

Virginia frequently spoke about the Morse family’s admirable gift of their Decatur home for public enjoyment and the common good. Please join her in supporting Woodlands with a donation on the GA Gives website.

Virginia Twinam Smith’s photography collection has many pieces and is currently for sale through Woodlands Garden.  Contact director@woodlandsgarden.org to learn more.

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