March 2025

Replace shrubs at the front of the restaurant with Limelight Hydrangea

To beautify the street back entrance to the studios, with the hope of providing an example and encouragement to other businesses in the

parking area to join the effort to create a welcoming square. Work would include 2 arborvitae, 2 large planters, assorted perennials and annuals and an attractive fence.

To provide an attractive bed around the Church sign on State Street. The brick edging will be improved and filled with perennials and mulched.

The well-established pharmacy on the corner of US 70 and Blue Ridge

Road wants to clean up and create attractive flower beds in the front and side of their business. They would like to improve the soil in the beds and plant new evergreens and native perennial wildflowers.

1. Landscape the west side of the church building, which faces Montreat Road. The plan will include native flowering perennials and shrubs, providing color and visual interest throughout the four season -

2. The project is aimed at erosion control and risk management. Restore the area which is used as a short cut between the White Horse parking area and the church parking area. The plan is to backfill the eroded

area and match the existing retaining wall, along with installing a split-

rail fence and attractive native plantings to discourage the continued

use on the short cut.

Transform the courtyard in front of their store on Cherry Street into a truly inviting place. The plan includes perennial flowering shrubs, a flowering “water fall” below the lion’s head and improve the flower boxes along Cherry street and remove the silk flowers and replace with blooming annuals.

Beautify the back of the shop where there a large deck recently built. This

area is next to the Red House Gallery, which is also a Seed Money

applicant, and this area could contribute to making this parking area a more attractive square and less industrial. Sarah requests two ceramic planters to grow plants in the the summer and two window box style planters along the edges of the porch.

The is a community service project for 20 girl scouts, where they will add plants and lots of color to the planter box in front of the BP station, near

Ingles on Route 9. If they have the money, they will plant annuals at the post office. The goal is to learn how to make their community more beautiful and take pride in it.