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The Down to Earth Garden Club will be holding its annual plant sale Friday, May 18 and Saturday , May 19. Times are: May 18, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm and May 19, 8:00 am-1p.m. This will be the biggest plant sake that the garden club has ever had. A rough count at this point is over 800 plants and we are still potting . There will probably close to 1000 plants by the time we are finished. Well over 700 of them were overwintered in the pots and have excellently developed root systems These are all perennials, herbs, bushes and trees that members bought, grew in their gardens and found that they grew so well that they could divide them again and again or found that they reseeded. Some of them are divisions from the many public beds that the Down to Earth Garden Club maintains throughout the city and some are from friends who grow unusual perennials.
The sale will be held at BMP, which is in the same building as A Sweet Occasion at 1265 Maple Ave. This is just before the light at Shaffer Road coming from town.
All proceeds go to maintaining the beds at the DuBois Public Library, the city building, the old Pershing parking lot, the Reitz theater, the multiple embankment beds near Penn State, the beds on the Beaver Meadow Walkway, a Butterfly Bed at Parker Dam and various pots around town. As well as, funding school and non-profit gardening projects and programs.
Inquiries can be directed to
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for varieties of plants that are available. For other info call 371-8672 or 375-9528.
Please bring those extra pots to the sale. As you can imagine we go through a lot of pots.
Plants for plant sale
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Volunteer Group of the Year Award |
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Presenting the award for Volunteer Group of the Year is Downtown Revitalization Group manager, Karen Vanderhoff. Accepting in memory of Aline Huey, from left to right are President Pat Panighetti, Diane Raymondo, Vice-president Sharon Bobal and Julie Wildaur.
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Serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea) |
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We had a very peculiar spring this year with days that were more suitable to July, followed by temperatures that dipped as low as 20 degrees. This brought many of our spring flowering ornamental trees into premature bloom only to have those blossom destroyed by low temperatures. Throughout all of this there was one tree in my yard, and indeed growing wild in the surrounding woodlands, that shouted out “let me be a lesson”.
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Stating seeds for annual plants is relatively uncomplicated. The seed goes into sterile soil or artificial medium, you give it some water, place it in a warmish place and after a while germination occurs. Having mastered germinating annuals, many gardeners eventually have the thought that if they start their perennials from seed they can, with a bit of patience, get lots of plants for a small price. So they go through the same procedure that they used on their tomato plants and nothing happens.
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Mixed Container Gardening |
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There is sometimes a very fine line between an ornamental plant and edible plant. Scarlet runner beans have always been grown for their pretty red flower, as well as for their flavorful beans. A more recent one is ‘Emperor Runner’. Those pots of colorful miniature peppers that were quite popular for many years at Christmas and the pepper “Black Pearl” that was developed specifically as an ornamental are both edible as well as attractive. The novelty Easter egg plant is a type of white eggplant. The ornamental sweet potatoes come in lime green, purple and tri-color leafed varieties. These are all vegetables that are grown primarily as ornamentals.
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