With around 2,500 visitors each year, Plantasia is the Charleston Horticultural Society’s biggest annual event. And for the first time in its 15-year history, Plantasia will be held in West Ashley. Fitting, perhaps, since CHS’s offices are located on Windermere Boulevard.
Citing a need for a more robust venue, replete with better parking, CHS executive director Kyle Barnette said the event will be held this Friday and Saturday at the county’s Old Towne Creek Park, located at 1400 Old Towne Road directly next to Charles Towne Landing. Old Towne Creek Park welcomes guests to ample and easy parking and a vast open green space under majestic live oaks and pecan trees.
In addition to providing the Southeast with one of its most sought after garden events featuring unusual and cutting edge plants, garden vendors, live garden, cooking demos, and educational resources for everything garden related, CHS’s Plantasia will also feature local farmers selling fresh produce, Master Gardeners on site to provide garden advice and suggestions, food trucks, and other exciting features on Saturday April 16 from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. It is free and open to the public.
The evening before the big sale, CHS hosts the Plantasia Eve Party, a ticketed event where guests have first access to purchasing plants while enjoying live bluegrass music from Yee Haw Junction with locally sourced bites from Salthouse. Firefly Distillery will be serving up a specialty Plantasia cocktail as guests check out the second annual Iron Trowel live window box design competition. CHS will also be honoring Lowcountry horticultural legend George Hyams of Hyams Garden Center. The Plantasia Eve Party will be held Friday Apr. 15, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. and tickets are $35 each.
For more information on Plantasia, call 579-9922 or visit www.chashortsoc.org.
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