2014 Biltmore Blooms is March 20 – May 23

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Inn on Mill Creek

Azaleas usher in spring

Springtime in the mountains of Western North Carolina… there’s nothing
quite like it. While we always suggest late April through the month of May as
the prime time in spring for maximizing your enjoyment of the area’s colorful flora and
fauna, the season really does magically kick off each year right around March
20, with daffodil and forsythia blooms, among some other early spring flowers.
And Biltmore helps out, too, with its Biltmore Blooms celebration.

Spring Countdown Begins

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Inn on Mill Creek

Mother Nature, let’s do this. Twenty days and counting…crocuses are starting to open at the Inn!

Guest Favorites Garden Update for February 2014

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Inn on Mill Creek

We’re installing a new garden this year at the Inn on Mill Creek, the Guest Favorites Garden. Can you guess what’s in it? That’s right, favorite plants and flowers of our guests, which we gathered from surveying them on Facebook.

Planning of the Guest Favorites Garden Begins

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Inn on Mill Creek

We’re expanding our garden spaces at the Inn on Mill Creek Bed & Breakfast in 2014, and one new garden that we’re planning is called our “Guest Favorites” garden. Earlier this year, we took a poll on our B&B Facebook page to find out what our guests’ favorite flowers, shrubs and other plants are, and are planning a garden that features many of the responses.

Inn on Mill Creek Receives Glorious Garden Award from BnBFinder

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Inn on Mill Creek

Exciting news to share: Inn on Mill Creek Bed & Breakfast is one of BnBFinder’s 2013 Glorious Garden Award winners!

Our Wise Old Snapping Turtle

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Inn on Mill Creek

In the seven summers that we’ve been here at the Inn on Mill Creek Bed & Breakfast, we’ve noticed from time to time in the pond a dark object just below the surface of the water, a submarine-like being, which occasionally sends up its periscope to check around, only to quickly sink back beneath the depths when spotted. OK, maybe Innkeeper Brigette has been reading too much about the Hunley Submarine in anticipation of a little innkeeper R&R (roadtrip and relax) vacay to Charleston later this year… But our resident snapping turtle had yet to make a real appearance, other than sticking its long neck out of the water. Until this week.

Some Summer Blooms at the Inn

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Inn on Mill Creek

The daylilies, shasta daisies, butterfly bushes and hydrangea shrubs are out in full force at the Inn on Mill Creek, welcoming summertime to the mountains of western North Carolina. (And just FYI, since we are daylily-crazy here at the Inn, we have several varieties that bloom at different times in different garden areas.)

Springtime near Black Mountain, NC

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Inn on Mill Creek

Our favorite rose bush at the Inn in bloom

Spring is always beautiful in the North Carolina mountains, but this year, we’ve seen the mountains gradually wake up to Spring, which is different from the past two years when Spring sprung right out of the gate in mid-March and quickly headed into summer by May. Since springtime has been more normal this year, guests of the Inn on Mill Creek Bed & Breakfast have been thoroughly enjoying the weeks of vibrant green leaves on the trees and gradual blooms as springtime makes its way from our neck of the woods around Asheville and Black Mountain to higher elevations along the Blue Ridge Parkway nearby, just in time for the Parkway’s official opening this weekend.

More Biltmore in April…Tulips and Azaleas

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Inn on Mill Creek

This year at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, the tulips and azaleas are battling it out for everyone’s attention! We have never been to Biltmore — located 20 minutes from the Inn on Mill Creek — when the azaleas and tulips were in full bloom at the same time. Just, wow.

April 2013 at Biltmore Estate

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Inn on Mill Creek

April is a great time to visit Biltmore Estate in Asheville if you love flowering trees and shrubs. As promised to our Facebook fans, here are some photos we took on April 12, just before the 80,000 tulips stole the show…enjoy!

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2014 Biltmore Blooms is March 20 – May 23

Spring Countdown Begins

Guest Favorites Garden Update for February 2014

Planning of the Guest Favorites Garden Begins

Inn on Mill Creek Receives Glorious Garden Award from BnBFinder

Our Wise Old Snapping Turtle

Some Summer Blooms at the Inn

Springtime near Black Mountain, NC

More Biltmore in April…Tulips and Azaleas

April 2013 at Biltmore Estate