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| Asheville | |
| * Peter Gentling | Blue Briar Cottage is a historic house and garden, once owned by William Jennings Bryan, and the 1931 summer Whitehouse for Herbert Hoover. His son had tuberculosis and came here for this. There are 20 acres with three acres in cultivation. The garden is on a sloping mountain cove and is extensively terraced, with many stone walls. I don't specifically use a rock garden motif but cater to plants indigenous to damp eastern mixed forests - both natives and Asiatic exotica. There are two original Dawn Redwoods, brought here by the previous owner, Dr. E.L. Demmon, who was forestry advisor to the Chiang-Kai-Shek government and who liberated these plants and seed in the late 1940's. |
| Chapel Hill | |
| * Rebecca and Jim Elliott | Our garden is very new (2 years old) and is located in a brand new neighborhood. You won't see any mature gardens near us! Our garden will look much better in a few years, but for now a visitor could see the "bones" (walkways, steps, walls, patio, etc.) as well as how to landscape on a very steep lot, front and back. We have a small rock garden, a natural ravine filled with shade plants and wildflowers, a small woodland garden, and several steep banks. We garden on a 1/2 acre city lot. Because of the small size, we feature dwarf conifers, Japanese maples, and miniature plants of all kinds. |
| Niche Gardens | Garden Web Page |
| Kai-Mei Parks | Garden Web Page |
| Greensboro | |
| * Graham Ray | This is a 2 acre, mostly shade garden under large white oaks, built in stages over 30 years, and always 10 years away from having it like I envision---a collectors garden with good design in mind. There is a 400 sq. ft. rock garden (miniature scale). |
| Raleigh | |
| Tony Avent | Garden Web Page |
| John Dilley and Willie Pilkington | Garden Web Page |
| George R. Stilwell, Jr. | My garden is on a commercial acre which slopes to a small lake on two sides. The main attraction is Arisaema but they bloom over an extended period from March to June so it's hard to say when is the optimum time.
There are about a dozen species/cultivars of Ilex, Helleborus, Azaleas, Rhododendron, Asarum, Sciadopitys, altogether 196 different plants living at the moment. |
| Bobby Ward and Roy Dicks | Description: Woodland garden with rocky creek flowing through the middle of it. Perennials include hellebores, cyclamen, bulbous species, and small woody plants. |