Oh, Biltmore Estate, how we love visiting you! On this most recent visit, we were enchanted by the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass traveling exhibit,Tiffany Lamps: Articles of Utility, Objects of Art, and all the things at the Estate that are just pure Biltmore.
This has been a rather warm summer so far for us, how about you? It got up to 88 degrees here at the Inn today! This weekend’s forecast says the high temps will be around 75, though, so until then, we’ll just hang around the pool — Pool Garden, that is. The swimming pool at the Inn was filled in several years ago, before our time as innkeepers, and is now filled with flowers and plants, which we love. Here’s some of what you’ll see blooming in the Pool Garden in July {more photos await you at our Bed & Breakfast Facebook Page}:
Wondering what flowers you’ll see when you visit the Inn in early- to mid-June? Here’s a partial list:
The garden’s getting prettier and prettier! Here are a few blooms you may see when you visit the Inn in May:
Spring at our Bed & Breakfast in the mountains of Western North Carolina is zooming right along, and very beautifully we might add. A few days ago, we highlighted what’s currently in bloom at the Inn. Here are some more blooms, which seem to be increasing daily. Yay, Spring!
We’ve had some amazing weather the past two weeks…amazing in that we’ve had all four seasons wrapped into one! Small flurries, thunderstorms, warm sunny days, you name it. So, it’s nice to see that Mother Nature is being consistent with the gorgeous flowers and flowering trees now in bloom around Asheville, Black Mountain and Old Fort — our beautiful neck of the woods. Yep, Spring is still our favorite season.
Whenever we visit Painter’s Greenhouse, one of our favorite nurseries in our area, it’s tempting to take home flats upon flats of gorgeous plants and flowers. Painter’s is amazing. But we’ve learned to pace ourselves {“we” meaning Brigette}, and with a list in hand, we recently headed over to the Painter’s Greenhouse Herb Fest: live music, fabulous food, and plants everywhere.
Our creeping phlox in the Pool Garden (a garden that used to be a swimming pool) is blooming profusely and when it returns, that signals the return of butterflies to the Inn. Here are our first two winged visitors of the season…with many more to come. We’ve counted up to 40 butterflies at one time on the phlox, which provides a purple splash of color in the middle of the Pool Garden this time of year.
Driving around this week, we noticed that several trees are flowering in the Asheville/Black Mountain area and there is green starting to show on the trees. Spring has arrived! And although the daytime temperature went from 79 degrees to 49 degrees in a span of three days (that’s Spring in the mountains), we can’t help but notice Mother Nature giving us some beautiful blooms to make up for that temporary fluctuation in the weather.
