Asheville Botanical Garden will host Sedges in the Wild and Garden: ID, Ecology, and Use on Sunday, May 24, giving gardeners and plant enthusiasts an introduction to one of the Southern Appalachians’ most overlooked native plant groups.
The class runs from 10 a.m. to noon and begins at the Asheville Botanical Garden Visitor Center, 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd. The program includes indoor instruction followed by an outdoor walk through the garden to look for sedges in context.
Botanist and ecologist Gary Kauffman will lead the session. Kauffman retired in 2025 after 32 years with the National Forest Service in North Carolina, where his work included plant identification, rare species and plant communities across 1.4 million acres of U.S. Forest Service-managed land from the mountains to the coast…