Green Tips

The August newsletter
Green Tips has now been posted.


For more information contact your local Cooperative Extension Center and ask for the Commercial Horticulture Agent.

Rain Barrel Sale

The Henderson County Master Gardeners are selling Rain barrels to help customers deal with the drought. Call the Henderson County office at 828-697-4891 for more information and down load the brochure at Rain Barrels
to share with clients/customers who may be interested

For more information contact your local Cooperative Extension Center and ask for the Commercial Horticulture Agent.

BRCC Offers evening horticulture classes

Blue Ridge Community College will begin to offer one of their horticulture certificate programs at night, this fall. The certificate program being offered will be the Landscape Design Certificate consisting of 2 semesters of Landscape Design and 2 semesters of Plant Identification. Landscape Design 1 and Plant Materials 1 are both slated to be offered this fall as evening classes. For more information contact Carolyn Evans at BRCC- cm_evans@blueridge.edu or (828) 694-1840.


For more information contact your local Cooperative Extension Center and ask for the Commercial Horticulture Agent.

Water Restrictions in Hendersonville

FYI
For those of you selling plants and/or installing plants for customers in Henderson County, in particular to individuals buying water from the city of Hendersonville, please be aware of the new Water Restrictions as indicated in the links to the following website:
Water Restrictions A public meeting will be held on Thursday, August 7th at 5:45 p.m. to allow for public comment regarding these restrictions. Water Restriction Ruling If you feel that this issue is one on which your voice must be heard, I suggest trying to make the meeting at City Hall.

For more information contact your local Cooperative Extension Center and ask for the Commercial Horticulture Agent.