Christmas
Centerpiece Workshops: Thursday, Dec. 11, 6:00 p.m., or Saturday, Dec.
13, 1:00 p.m.
Decorate
your table or mantle this holiday season with a festive centerpiece you
create, featuring a variety of locally grown and harvested greens,
unusual dried flowers, fresh fruit and berries.
With
proper care your centerpiece should remain fresh for weeks. Call
423-279-9972 or e-mail
to reserve your spot. Cost of the workshop is $40 and includes all your
supplies and pepperminty refreshments.
Mother’s Day Petal Party:
Saturday, May 10, 2008, 9:00-11:30 a.m. Come and create one
large and two small Mother’s Day bouquets and learn about peonies,
baptisia, sweet William, and other spring bloomers. Receive one hand
blown glass parmesan cheese shaker--from Ohio’s Moser glass factory--and
learn to transform it into a sweet herb arrangement. We’ll investigate
all things growing and sip lemonade while wearing Aunt Willie’s favorite
hats. (Limit 15 - $35 fee must be prepaid. Fee includes Moser glass
shaker)
Naturescape I (Stump Stuffin’): Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 6:30-8:30
p.m. Aunt Willie’s will provide all you need to create
an arrangement straight from nature. You may choose from several
gathered “finds” or wander and choose for yourself. Then we’ll add the
cut flowers. All will head home with an arrangement to enjoy and a
container to be reused with fresh materials another day. Bring a vase to
take home an extra bouquet. (Limit 10 - $30 fee must be prepaid).
Naturescape II (Stump Stuffin’): Tuesday, June 10, 2008,
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Same fun as above.
Hanging Basket: June 17, 2008, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Gather summer bounty
of flowers and grasses and learn to arrange in a charming hanging
basket. (Limit 12 - $40 prepaid fee includes basket)
Bouquets by the Bunches: Tuesday, July 8, 2008.
Come and lean basic
arranging and play in the bounty of summer! Bring 2 large
vases/containers and 1 small and we’ll heap them with sweet william,
zinnias, snaps, lisianthus, sunflowers, lilies, cleome, phlox, shastas,
mints, and all things blooming. Light refreshments. (Limit 12 each night
- $30 fee must be prepaid)
Pitcher of Lizzies: July 15, 2008, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Lisianthus is one of
the prettiest flowers growing. We’ll gather lissies and snaps and
arrange in an equally pretty pitcher. (Limit 10 - $40 prepaid fee
includes pitcher)
Summer barbeque and a Crock full of Sunflowers: Tuesday, July
22, 2008, 6:00-9:30 p.m.
Gather for a picnic,
complete with pulled pork barbeque and all the fixin’s. Then it’s off to
the flower patch for heaping sunflowers, amaranthus, celosia, dianthus,
pearl millet, rudbeckia and all things blooming into a large crock. Aunt
Willie’s will provide the crock for sunflower stuffin’. Bring an extra
vase or container to take more home.
Light refreshments. (Limit 12 - $60 includes large crock and catered
supper -- fee must be prepaid)
Fall Harvest
Festival 2008: September 19-20. Friday 6-10 p.m. Saturday 8:30
a.m.-9:00 p.m.
Turn over a creative
“leaf” and let’s spend all weekend with fall foliage, flowers,
ornamentals, and a few good weeds! We’ll play at Aunt Willie's,
ride the hay wagon up the road to the Home Place (farmhouse built in
1860), and even gather weeds and wildflowers up on the ridge peering
over the mountains and treetops into North Carolina and Virginia.
Saturday evening all will head home with one bouquet in an antique
pitcher and another in a small crock, corn shocks extraordinaire,
a wall hanging of dried
materials, raffia-tied to an old farm handle,
pumpkin creations, and memories of shared flower experiences. All
weekend, you’ll
receive gentle guidance and instruction as you create
in the equivalent of 6
different workshops.
Plant materials will include grasses, celosia, dahlias, zinnias,
amaranths, sunflowers, cosmos, millet, broom corn, Indian corn,
pumpkins, corn stalks, and squash. Bring along your favorite container
for one arrangement, a desire to learn and experiment, and a sense of
adventure. You will receive a crock, basket, pitcher, and old farm
implement (rake, hoe, etc). Four catered meals provided. (Limit 10 -
$250 fee must be prepaid). Overnight accommodations available for a few
– extra fee.
