Christopher’s Garden [The Gnomon] is one of my all time favorite places in West Asheville. It’s a place where I go to relax, get inspired, meditate and hang out to talk plants with my good friend Christopher. Sunday there is going to be an amazing community event sponsored by the W.A.L.K., the Hop and a bunch of other cool local businesses, to celebrate the garden and raise money for infrastructure improvements. If you’ve met Christopher or spent time in this unique urban garden he has created then you already know what a special/magic place this is. If you haven’t been yet then Sunday will be a fun way to meet the garden and it’s creator and help insure that it continues to grow under Christopher’s careful hand.
Here’s the link to the facebook event site: Christopher’s Garden Fundraiser
From the W.A.L.K.: Come celebrate with us! This Sunday, June 2, we are celebrating Christopher’s Garden, a magical garden in East West Asheville, a special place where Christopher Mello welcomes us and opens his garden to our community every day. Come see our beloved and legendary urban garden……a place to meet and meander ♥ On…..Sunday, June 2 in the garden, at the corner of Waynesville Avenue & Westwood Place from noon till 9 pm.
There will be a raffle in the garden at 9pm for gift certificates and gifts from Battle Cat, Bari Salon @barisalon, Harvest Records @harvestrecords , Second Gear @secondgearwnc , The Littlest Birds @LittlestBirdsNC, Zia Taqueria @ZiaTaqueriaAVL , Flora @Flora_Designs , Cat Finks at Asheville Community Accupuncture, and more! Raffle tickets are available at WALK or Christopher’s Garden, 1 for $5 or 5 for $20. Sponsored by WALK, who will donate 100% from dedicated taps to Christopher’s Garden, as well as The Hop West who will be vending ice cream in the garden.
Last year I researched the land records on the property to figure out what the old house number would have been on the Westwood Place side entrance. It was a fascinating peek into West Asheville’s beginnings of the way we see it today. You can read about the history of the garden before it was a garden here:
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]]>Otherwise in the garden, everything from the greenhouse that we started from seed in February has now been in the garden for a week or more and is going nuts being in real dirt! Sunflowers have been planted all along the fence between the GH and the garden as well as a few urns of flowers out front. Pop & I got a 75 ft soaker hose for Pop to cut down into pieces and installed it along the row between the peas, beans & big tomato plants fed from from the Big Mamu cistern up at the house under the deck. Still trying to get a feel for the flow of the drip since it’s all gravity fed and I am suddenly obsessed with weather systems in a new and fascinating way .
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And also festival time is upon us. Yay! We did our best yesterday and took the craft tent out for the first “dry” run in a couple of years. Good thing too cause it’s been raining since then. No complaints though. I think Hillary Frye and I did a very professional job presenting ourselves and we were cozy and dry inside it and talked about how we are going to be taking this show on the road. For afters we went to the All Go West Festival in the parking lot of the Isis and caught he Jonathan Scales Fourchestra which made up for all of the dampness quite nicely.
But the BEST of all news about all of this precipitation the new rain capture system is not only working off all of the gutters on the north facing side of the house, it filled in five hours yesterday!! That’s about 150 gallons of rain water with overflow being diverted into the yard!! Woo Hoo! It’s going to be a lovely summer for our garden!
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More photos from the masquerade can be viewed here in my gallery:
Leadership Asheville Masquerade 2013
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]]>Newbies to waltzing are encouraged to come and try it out with an hour long lesson for just $5, staying for the rest of the dance is an additional $10. The music is live and there is no shortage of helpful dancers on the floor too while you get the hang of it. Great exercise, great fun and a neat way to make some new friends.
You can check out more photos from Waltz Night on he Orange Peel’s FaceBook page here.
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