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Lovingly Cultivated
Written By: Luke Osteen | Issue: April 2024
Local gardens and landscapes (and the people who love them) have cast their hopeful gaze toward the Mountain Garden Club’s Annual Plant Sale, May 25, at the Highlands Ball Field.
Who doesn’t long to have the most beautiful landscaping and flowers in your neighborhood and who hasn’t struggled to find just the right plants to grow in our unique environment?
“That’s not a problem with plants purchased at our plant sale,” says Mountain Garden Club’s Debby Hall.
Hall, who’s also a broker with Silver Creek Real Estate Group, says that she tells new property owners to consider the Mountain Garden Club’s Annual Plant Sale, set for Saturday, May 25 from 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M., at the Town Ballfield.
This unique plant sale offers you the chance to purchase native plants grown by some of the most accomplished gardeners on the Plateau. The plants have all been lovingly cultivated locally and many are native to our area, so they are ideally suited to our unique ecosystem. These acclimated plants will grow and thrive for years to come. The guesswork has been taken out of the equation of whether it will grow and thrive in our climate.
There will be as many as 40 distinct types of plants, from those that attract pollinators such as Bee Balm, Astilbe, and Clematis, to the always popular Hosta in its many varieties, Cinnamon Ferns, Creeping Jenny, Coneflower, Bleeding Heart, Forsythia, Iris, Daylily, and many other offerings, including Dahlia bulbs. If you’ve admired a plant in any local garden, you’ll most likely be able to purchase it here and have a chance to chat with the gardeners who have lovingly tended to those plants from seedling to sale.
This is the Mountain Garden Club’s largest fundraiser of the year and proceeds are used to fund scholarships for local students who are studying horticulture, environmental studies, and education, as well as for other community projects, conservation efforts, and community gardens. It is a chance to beautify your garden while giving to a worthy cause.
Be prepared to come early as the sale is extremely popular and long lines form quickly. Cash or check only, please.
