Garden Jubilee Festival
Saturday, May 25 & Sunday, 26, 2013
9:00 am-5:00 pm (both days)
Historic Downtown Hendersonville
(Main Street from Sixth Avenue to Caswell Street)
Animals are Prohibited

The Annual Garden Jubilee Festival is celebrating its 20-year in Historic Downtown Hendersonville. Garden Jubilee is Historic Hendersonville’s premier lawn & garden show, and one of the largest gardening shows in the Western North Carolina. The Garden Jubilee is a spectacular two day festival, held on Saturday, May 25 & Sunday, May 26 of Memorial Day weekend. Gardening is one of America’s favorite pastimes and the Blue Ridge Mountains provide a healthy environment for growing a vast variety of flowers and plants.  Bring wagon or cart to make transporting your plants easier.

The Garden Jubilee Festival showcases more than 150 vendors lining Main Street and the centerpiece of the Festival is the Lowe’s Expo, located at the Visitors Information Center, 201 South Main Street.  Southern Living garden expert, Bill Slack and national lawn & garden representatives present a series of free lectures throughout the 2-day show. 

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 be handmade lawn furniture, jewelry, garden tools, yard art, planters, wind chimes, birdhouses, as well as soaps, and pottery. Garden related vendors will be located on Main Street in Historic Downtown Hendersonville from Sixth Avenue to Caswell Street and Main Street will be closed to traffic, with vendors lining both sides of the street. A variety of food vendors will be located in the food court, between Barnwell & Caswell Streets.

The Lowe’s Expo will be at located at the Visitors Information Center, 201 South Main Street, offering garden clinics, a plant sale, a hands-on kids clinic, beautiful yard displays and outdoor equipment. Nationally known lawn and garden product specialists will be offering free 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 garden expert and national lawn & garden representatives present a series of free lectures throughout the 2-day show. 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, from 10:00am-4:00pm both days.  

Southern Living Magazine's landscape & garden specialist Bill Slack is a Garden Jubilee favorite and will be returning to 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 20 years and is making his 11th 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 25 -11:00am "Your Landscape’s finishing touch – container gardening", 1:00pm "Wow! What a beautiful backyard" and 3:00pm "Laid back landscaping!” and two on Sunday, May 26 - 1:00pm "Wow! What a beautiful backyard" and 3:00pm "Laid back landscaping!” He is a registered landscape architect, author and lecturer appearing on many national radio & TV programs. The American Society of Landscape Architects named him the Outstanding Extension Landscape Architect in the United States.

Please leave your pets comfortably at home, Hendersonville City ordinance prohibits animals in the event area.

The Garden Jubilee Hospitality Tent will be located in the Historic Courthouse block, between First & Second Avenues.  The Hospitality Tent offers shoppers an area to leave their plants and other purchases while they continue to shop. A festival map and vendor directory will be available for shoppers searching for a particular vendor, product or general information.

Memorial Day weekend is the kick-off to the summer season; spend it in Historic Hendersonville, for lodging or area information visit historichendersonville.org. For information call the Henderson County Tourism Development Authority at (828) 693-9708 / 800-828-4244.  Garden Jubilee is an event of the Henderson County Tourism Development Authority.

Sponsored by
Lowe's Home Improvement
Our State Magazine
Henderson County Tourism Devlelopment Authority

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 Tourism Development Authority
Attn: Special Event Office
201 South Main Street
Hendersonville, NC 28792
800-828-4244 or 828-693-9708
Fax: 828-697-4996
events@historichendersonville.org