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Garden Jubilee kicks off festival season

Growers and nurseries offer thousands of plants for sale at the Garden Jubilee on Memorial Day weekend.

By Bill Moss, Published: May 21, 2014

Garden Jubilee, the traditional kickoff of the summer festival season in downtown Hendersonville, will offer thousands of plants and garden accessories and free talks by gardening experts.

The Garden Jubilee Festival showcases more than 200 vendor spaces lining Main Street. Local and regional nurseries will be selling thousands of annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs and hard-to-find plants and accessories on every block of the festival. Vendors also offer handmade lawn furniture, jewelry, garden tools, yard art, planters, wind chimes, birdhouses, as well as soaps and pottery.
At Lowe's Expo at the Visitors Information Center nationally known lawn and garden product specialists will be offering free one-on-one advice. Garden experts and national lawn and garden representatives give free lectures throughout the two-day festival.
Southern Living magazine landscape and garden specialist Bill Slack will give free clinics at the Lowe's tent.
Pets are not allowed at the festival.

Garden Jubilee
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, May 24-25
Main Street from Caswell Street to Sixth Avenue
Features more than 300 plant, nursery and garden supply vendors
Free clinics by Southern Living garden expert Bill Slack:
• 11 a.m. Saturday: "Bedazzled by Color: Eye Catching Annuals & Perennials"
• 1 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday: "Facelift for a Tired Landscape"
• 3 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday: "Curb Appeal: Beauty from the Front Walk to the Front Door"
Lowe's Expo at the Visitors Information Center offers garden clinics, plant sale, hands-on kids clinic, yard displays and outdoor equipment.
Food vendors are on the south end of Main Street between Barnwell and Caswell streets.

No pets