This past summer, every week or so, weather permitting, we took pictures of the plants in the Kimberly Steward Memorial Garden to show their development. The text for the descriptions of the plants was written by John Bond, a retired professor of micology at Appalachian State and the Museum's "Head Gardener".
In each section of the table were the latest "members" of the garden. Plants in prior weeks continued to be shown on the updates until their demise or until the end of the season. There is also a pictorial index if you would like a preview of the blooms before watching the plants' development.
| 15 March Galax Oconee Bells Trillium |
22 March Carolina Bush Pea Columbine |
| 1 April Bearded Tongue Celandine Wood Poppy Creeping Jacob's Ladder Fly Poison Great Blue Lobelia Shooting Star Yellow Trillium |
7 April Crested Dwarf Iris Interrupted Fern Mottled Wild Ginger Ostrich Fern Pink Turtlehead Snow Trillium Turk's Cap Lily Wild Geranium Common Strawberry Wood Betony Yellow Wild Indigo |
| 19 April Christmas Fern Fairy Wand Fall Aster Goatsbeard Green and Gold Lily of the Valley Pink Lady Slipper Wake Robin Trillium Vernal Iris |
27 April Bowman's Root Flame Azalea Marginal Shield Fern Wake Robin Trillium |
| 5 May American Ginseng Jack-in-the-Pulpit |
12 May Black Cohosh Cardinal Flower Purple Rhododendron |
| 25 May Bee Balm Cinnamon Fern Mountain Laurel Squaw Root |
7 July Helleborine |
| 24 July Indian Pipe | 1 Sept. Stinky Squid |
| 27 Sept. Beechdrops Closed Gentian Common Ragweed Spotted Wintergreen |