What's New

Mountain Gardens is seeking a director for a nature education center / school currently under construction on a half-acre property located between M.G. and the National Forest (Woody Ridge trailhead at the end of Shuford Creek Road).  The facility will include a classroom / library, outdoor kitchen, an airstream trailer to serve as office and residence for the director, and about a dozen simple shelters (huts, lean-tos, tipis, etc.)

Mountain Gardens is pleased and honored to announce a plant walk with Stephen Barstow on Sunday Sept 22 1-5 pm. Stephen is the author of "Around the World in Eighty Plants", the best book available on growing and using perennial vegetables, and since he resides in Norway all the plants he discusses are hardy here. He will be visiting Mountain Gardens in between giving a presentation at the Atlanta Botanic Garden and then flying to Iowa to give a keynote address at a Midwest Wild Harvest Festival being organized by Sam Thayer. You can read much more about his work at his website www.edimentals.com.

Mountain Gardens is very pleased to announce a pair of workshops co-taught with Thomas Avery Garran.

July 13th: Using Local Herbs in Chinese Medicine and July 14th: Grow Chinese Herbs

Mr. Garran is the author of what are, in my opinion, the two best books (of the eight now available) on the very lively subject of using western herbs in the practice of Chinese medical herbalism: Western Herbs According to Chinese Medicine (Healing Arts Press, 2008) and Western Herbs in Chinese Medicine: Methodology and Materia Medica (Passiflora Press, 2014). He is currently based in Beijing, China and recently completed his PhD at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences: National Center for Materia Medica Resources and Daodi Herbs.

Our 2019 Workshop Calendar is up.

Our Seeds List has been updated for 2019.

Returning this year are two edibles, Good King Henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus) and Malva verticillata ‘Crispa,’ as well as a popular medicinal, spilanthes (Acmella oleracea). New to our list are salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius), and the purple variety of mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica var. atropurpurea), both edibles.

To order, email seeds.mg@gmail.com with your request. If you’re looking for inspiration or growing information, we have some helpful resources available on the Seeds homepage (scroll down).