Spring Events 2015

Spring in our Steps: Join us in the garden this spring for fun activities and beautiful blooms! — Spring in our Steps: Join us in the garden this spring
for fun activities and beautiful blooms!

Saturday, March 21

4-6 pm Spring Equinox Concert: Jean Gay, Cello

Every Thursday, April 2 onwards

5.30 – 6.30 pm Yoga Session

Sunday, April 12

1-2 pm Dedication of the Bird Meadow

1-4 pm Auction for the Birds

2-4 pm Music in the Pavilion: Ben Wakeman & Allison Adams

Sunday, April 19

1-2 pm Build a house for a Brown-headed Nuthatch

1-4 pm Auction for the Birds

2-4 pm Music in the Pavilion: Just Be’Cause

(Bruce Gilbert, Cyndi Craven, and Jerry Brunner)

Look for us during the Earth Day Celebrations at Oakhurst Garden

Saturday, April 25

7.30 am Audubon Bird Walk

10-11.30 am Stories in the Woods

11 am – 3 pm Youth Art Market / Auction for the Birds

Sunday, April 26

2-4 pm Auction for the Birds

2-4 pm Music in the Pavilion: The Rosin Sisters

(Jan Smith, Barbara Panter-Connah, and Ann Whitley-Singleton)

4-5 pm Auction for the Birds closes / Tai Chi session / Poetry

Saturday, May 16

11 am – 2 pm Garden Go Seek Your Park

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Yoga in the Garden

April 1, 2015

Feel like a mid-week ‘stretch and de-stress’ session?

Join us on Thursdays, from April 2 onwards, for a relaxing session of Yoga.

Our trainer, Aditi Chandrasekhar started her yoga practice in 2005 at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram. She received her Post Graduate Diploma in Yoga Training from the Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University in 2012. Aditi went on to teach ‘Yoga for Fitness’ at the Vinieyoga Healing Centre (former Viniyoga Healing Foundation), where she has been a student since 2010. Her practice here has been in the vinyasa style, based on hatha yoga, involving asana and pranayama.

What to bring:

Yoga mat

Hand towel (to roll up under your neck)

Bottle of water

What to expect:

Lots of stretches and deep breathing

When:

Thursdays, 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm

Where:

Woodlands Garden Pavilion

Fee:

A Donation Box will be set up in a corner; all proceeds go to Woodlands Garden.

Art, Music, Plants and Fairies in the Garden

September through October
Paintings by Edie Morton
Edie Morton created Floating Gardens as part of the Wilderness Act Performance Series in honor of the 50th anniversary of this landmark legislation. Her encaustic paintings, using layers of beeswax, resin and pigments, draw inspiration from the patterns and shapes of wings, leaves and bark. The exhibit opened in September and will continue through October.

Sunday Oct. 12, 2014

Sweet Music in the Pavilion

2 – 3 pm Ashley Filip is an Atlanta singer-songwriter who has been performing since she was 14. Ashley’s songs are stories of family, spirituality, and relationships. She counts as influences the storytelling tradition of country and folk music and the music of Aretha Franklin, Alison Krauss, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin, Lauryn Hill, and Brad Paisley.

3 – 4 pm The Fabulous Pinkie Sisters, who range in age from 11 to 14, are Decatur singer-songwriter Allison Adams’ guitar and ukulele students. They are Ava Chester, Isabella Beeson, Anna Mahany, Alice Goddard, and Paige Garcia. Allison named them the Fabulous Pinkie Sisters because they all can do fabulous things with their pinkie fingers on their guitars and ukuleles.

Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014
Fairies in the Garden
Clients of Skyland Trail’s therapeutic horticultural program will once again bring their Fairies in the Garden installation to Woodlands. Visitors to this annual event will discover tiny fairy dwellings built from bark, twigs, branches, seed heads, leaves and other natural materials, tucked in sheltered nooks along the garden’s paths.

Oct. 16-Nov. 2, 2014
Photography by Virginie Kippelen and Shannon Davis
Urban Wilderness + Man-Made Nature is part of the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival. Photographers Virginie Kippelen and Shannon Davis will display large format photographs along the trails. This annual citywide festival, the largest annual community-oriented photo festival in the United States, strives to provide experiences that engage and educate diverse audiences through lens-based media.

At all these events visitors can purchase a variety of trees, shrubs and perennials from Woodlands Garden’s Fall Plant Sale. Choose from trees and shrubs that include seedlings of the area’s champion bigleaf magnolia plus Japanese maple, dogwood, redbud, American holly, Virginia sweetspire, and elderberry. There will be perennials such as celandine poppy,
passionflower vine, arum, hellebore, euphorbia, and ginger lily, and other plants passed along by friends of the garden. Buyers help support Woodlands Garden and take home plants proven to thrive in the Decatur area.

Woodlands Garden is at 932 Scott Blvd. Directions and additional information can be found here.

Fall Plant Sale Continues to Amaze Us

Time for the Fall Plant Sale at Woodlands

2 – 4 pm Sundays in October, 2 – 5 pm Saturday October 18th

Amazing donated plants keep rolling in, and amazing new and repeat customers continue to find treasures for their gardens. Even if you’ve already found a few new plants for your yard, come this Sunday to find more. Our volunteer gardeners have collected seedlings from Woodlands trees, brought plants from their own gardens, and secured donations from many nearby nurseries. We’ll keep selling these gorgeous specimens through October 26th.

Blackfoot Daisy Performs at Sunday in the Garden Aug. 24

Sunday in the Garden
August 24, 2-4 pm
Live Music by Blackfoot Daisy

Blackfoot Daisy is Don Sechelski, Adam Sechelski and Wendy DuMond. They write music about love, loss, family, horses, dogs, and things they have yet to ask forgiveness for. Using harmonies taken from a backwoods church choir, they call themselves the “poor man’s Nickel Creek.”

By day, Don and Adam are both educators. Adam teaches high school drama and Don teaches second-grade math and science. Wendy works in a law firm. We welcome this talented trio to their first performance at Woodlands Garden.