News

Garden Jubilee Festival is showcase for flowers, plants

The aptly named Kendall Flowers was happy with her family’s purchase.

By , Published: May 23, 2013

The Annual Garden Jubilee Festival is celebrating its 20th year in Historic Downtown Hendersonville.

Garden Jubilee is Historic Hendersonville's premier lawn and garden show, and one of the largest gardening shows in the Western North Carolina. The Garden Jubilee is a spectacular two day festival, held on Saturday, May 25, and Sunday, May 26, of Memorial Day weekend. Bring wagon or cart to make transporting plants easier.
The Garden Jubilee Festival showcases more than 200 vendors lining Main Street. The centerpiece of the festival is the Lowe's Expo, located at the Visitors Information Center, 201 S. Main St. Southern Living garden expert Bill Slack and national lawn and garden representatives present a series of free lectures throughout the two-day show.
Local and regional nurseries will be selling thouands of annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs and hard to find plants on every block of the festival. There will be handmade lawn furniture, jewelry, garden tools, yard art, planters, wind chimes, birdhouses, as well as soaps, and pottery. Garden related vendors will be located from Sixth Avenue to Caswell Street. Main Street will be closed to traffic, with vendors lining both sides of the street. A variety of food vendors will be located in the food court, between Barnwell and Caswell Streets.
A garden expert and national lawn and garden representatives present a series of free lectures. Product representatives from Stay Green, Scotts, Miracle-Gro, Ortho, Roundup, Sevin, Spectracide, Cutter, Pennington Lawn & Garden Products, and Hot Shot will be available in their tents giving out free samples and helpful tips. The Lowe's Kids Clinic located at the Visitors Information Center will offer free fun hands-on projects for children ages 4-12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.
Southern Living magazine's landscape and garden specialist Bill Slack is a Garden Jubilee favorite and will be returning to the Lowe's lawn and garden tent. Slack has been a landscape and gardening specialist with Southern Living magazine for 20 years and is making his 11th appearance at Garden Jubilee. He will be giving free clinics in the Lowe's lawn and garden tent. There will be three talks on Saturday, May 25: "Your Landscape's finishing touch – container gardening" at 11 a.m.; "Wow! What a beautiful backyard" at 1 p.m. and "Laid back landscaping!" at 3 p.m. Talks on Sunday, May 26, will be "Wow! What a beautiful backyard" at 1 p.m. and "Laid back landscaping!" at 3 p.m.
Please leave your pets comfortably at home. Hendersonville City ordinance prohibits animals in the event area.
The Garden Jubilee Hospitality Tent will be located in the Historic Courthouse block. It offers shoppers an area to leave plants and other purchases while they continue to shop. A festival map and vendor directory will be available for shoppers searching for a particular vendor, product or general information.
For information call the Henderson County Tourism Development Authority at 828-693-9708 or 800-828-4244. Garden Jubilee is an event of the Henderson County Tourism Development Authority.