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WOAH Members Only Tour of Josh Banks's Garden Members Only

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Saturday, August 3rd, 2024
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Home of Josh Banks, Johnson City, TN, 24210 Map

Members Only Free Event Home Garden Tour

Josh and his wife moved to Johnson City from Montgomery, AL in late 2021. Since the spring of 2022, he has been slowly removing the turf from their sloping 1/3-acre plot, and replacing it with mostly native perennials, shrubs, and trees. He works as an architect, and regional design is something he thinks is very important, both in architecture and landscape design. He likes to grow native plants because they give a "sense of place" to a landscape - and he thinks Appalachian Highlands residents are with some amazing plants to choose from! He also recently started a small backyard nursery and landscaping design business called Paragraph Designs. His main frustration was the lack of access to affordable plug/small potted plants available to the home gardener, since he believes that is the most cost effective and environmentally-friendly way to get more plants into the landscape. His hope is to make more plug plants available while growing as many as possible from local seed.

 

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