Corneille Bryan Native Garden with Janet Manning 

Photos by Karen Lawrence from our exploration of this ravine garden of native plants.  Janet Manning has managed this garden for over 15 years and she guided us on an informative and engaging journey through the trails, educating us about the plants and the history of this special habitat with over 500 species of plants.

Patricia and Janet

Columbine

Cucumber Magnolia trunk with Sapsucker marks

Foamflower

Glade Fern

Horsetail

Jacob's Ladder

Janet finding salamanders

Janet with a tiny salamander

Showing the salamander

Mary and Stan with salamander

Ned on the trail

Oconee Bell, Shortia

Fernleaf Phacelia

Celandine Poppy

Robin's Plantain

Silvery Glade Fern

Stan and Mary

Swamp Pink

Sweet Betsy

White Wake Robin

Celebrating the garden!

Fothergilla

Irene, Sandy, Nancy

our lunch spot

Ned, Tom, Elena

Stan, Mary, Jean, Janet

Yellow Trillium

Virginia Bluebells

Bartram Trail Hike with Brent Martin at Overflow Creek

Brent teaches us about some of William Bartram's travels while we hike in the Overflow Creek area.
Photos by Karen Lawrence

Magnolias with Jack Johnston

Photos by David Fann from our trip to see Jack's magnolias.

Winter Tree Identification with Shannon Rabby

Our Winer Tree identification class with Shannon Rabby was excellent.  Even though snow was dumped on us in the parking lot as we departed from Franklin, we made it safely to Haywood Community College and found much better weather.  With Shannon's extensive experience,  knowledge and interesting presentation,  and with the help of his assistant, Blake, we learned to recognize differences in bark, twigs, buds, and scars as clues to tree species.  After some basics in the classroom we worked outside on the campus which was established as an arboretum and has many mature lovely trees.  Shannon teaches a tree id class in the summer "Student for a Day" program.  If you missed our Winter id class and/or want to learn more about trees put it on your agenda.