Garden Jubilee Festival
Saturday, May 26 & Sunday, 27, 2012
Saturday 10:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Historic Downtown Hendersonville
(Main Street from Sixth Avenue to Caswell Street)
Animals are Prohibited

The 19th Annual Garden Jubilee Festival is a spectacular two day festival, held on Saturday, May 26 & Sunday, May 27 of Memorial Day weekend.  Gardening is one of America's favorite pastimes and the mountains provide a healthy environment for growing a vast variety of flowers and plants. Garden Jubilee is the ideal festival for passionate gardeners searching for the perfect plants and unique lawn & garden accessories and arts & crafts. This is a great opportunity for beginner gardeners to speak with the experts at the garden clinics and gather tips and advice. Bring wagon or cart to make transporting your plants easier.

Garden Jubilee covers 8 blocks of Main Street with over 200 vendors selling handmade arts and crafts, plants and items to enhance your outdoor living area. Local and regional nurseries will be selling 1000's of annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs and hard to find plants on every block of the festival.  A great way to enhance the beauty of a garden is to add ornamentation. There will also be delicious food to satisfy any appetite in the food court, located between Barnwell & Caswell Streets.

Located at the Visitors Information Center, 201 South Main Street the Lowe's Expo will offer garden clinics, plant sale, a hands-on kids clinic, beautiful yard displays and outdoor equipment. Nationally known lawn and garden product specialists will be giving one-on-one advice. If you have a question or need advice about your garden or lawn, you've come to the right place.  A series of free lectures is presented throughout the 2 day show by a garden expert and national lawn & garden representatives. 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.   

Southern Living Magazine's landscape & garden specialist Bill Slack will be returning by popular demand to Garden Jubilee in the Lowe's lawn and garden tent located at the Visitors Information Center. Bill Slack has been a landscape and gardening specialist with Southern Living Magazine for 19 years and is making his 10th appearance at Garden Jubilee. He will be giving free clinics in the Lowe's lawn and garden tent located at the Visitors Information Center, 201 South Main Street. Mr. Slack will offer three talks on Saturday, May 26 -11:00 AM "WOW! What a beautiful front yard", 1:00 PM "No sun in your garden? No problem" and 3:00 PM "Through the garden gate, Pathways and Patios"; and two on Sunday, May 27 - 1:00 PM "WOW! What a beautiful front yard" and 3:00 PM "No sun in your garden? No problem". He is a registered landscape architect, author and lecturer appearing on many national radio & TV programs. He was named the Outstanding Extension Landscape Architect in the United States by the American Society of Landscape Architects. Bill has completed his 19th publication Southern Living Garden Guide to Landscaping.

Please leave your pets comfortably at home. Hendersonville City ordinance prohibits animals downtown during specials events.

For information call Henderson County Travel & Tourism at (828) 693-9708 / 800-828-4244. For lodging or area information visit www.historichendersonville.org.

Garden Jubilee is event of Henderson County Travel & Tourism.

Sponsored by
Lowe's Home Improvement
Golf Cart Center & Affordable Equipment Rental
Henderson County Travel & Tourism

Vendor Information
If you are interested in being a vendor at the Garden Jubilee Festival you must meet the following criteria and meet the requirements of the Garden Jubilee committee.

There are 3 categories of vendors: Crafts, Nursery and Food.
 
Craft Vendors:  Merchandise must be garden related handmade arts & crafts or lawn & garden accessories.
 
Nursery Vendors: Annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs, trees, shrubs, hard to find plants and garden related merchandise
 
Food Vendors:  Must have current insurance and meet The Health Department's temporary food vendor regulations.
 
To inquire about participating in the Garden Jubilee, email, call or mail a description of all of your merchandise.

SELECTION PROCESS:
PLEASE NOTE:  We do not send applications in response to each request. Applicants work must meet the festival requirements and quality of items. Acceptance is at the discretion of the festival committee.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Henderson County Travel & Tourism
Attn: Special Event Office
201 South Main Street
Hendersonville, NC 28792
800-828-4244 or 828-693-9708
Fax: 828-697-4996
wncmtns@bellsouth.net