The West Newbury Garden Club's annual Plant Sale will be held on the West Newbury Training Field across from the Town Hall from 8:30 am to 11:30 am. The outdoor setting will provide a safe environment for you to browse through beautiful and colorful plants and to select the perfect additions to your home garden. The sale will feature sun, shade and native plants as well as delicacies from our bake table.

Native Plants are among the very best for pollination by bees and for sustaining our birds. Plants on our sun tables will also attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Both native plants and native bushes will be available. Want to attract butterflies? There will be Butterfly Weed. Need some height in your garden? Monarda Fistula, native Bee Balm, is the solution. Cardinal Flower will add that pop of red to draw the viewer's eye. Turtlehead keeps your garden in blooming in late summer. Canadian Ginger and May Apple are some of the other choices you may find hard to resist. High Bush Blueberries is a tasty choice. Serviceberry, Witch Hazel, and Spicebush can add an old-fashioned and natural touch to your plantings. Ostrich Fern is a beauty, with long, tall fronds.

For those of you with gardens blessed with lots of the sun's rays, Monarda, Phlox, Coneflower, Liatrus, and Daylilies add diverse islands of color, shape, and growing habit. Asters will keep your garden blooming well into the fall. Various ground covers will flourish where the grass will not grow.

Club members with those "secret gardens" off in the shade are contributing Hosta, Solomon Seal, Coral Bells, Persicaria, Woodland Phlox, and Epimedium. Did you know that as long as you keep the flowers on your hostas, you will attract pollinators? You can create your own very special, shady spot, which is cooler to tend, needs less water, and grows fewer weeds.

These three lists give you just a sense of the variety that will entice you. Even more plants will be added by sale time. Club members will be available to provide gardening advice and help new gardeners pick their perfect plant.

Date: May 21, 2022

Time: 8:30 am to 11:30 am.

Venue: West Newbury Training Field across from the Town Hall at 390 Main St., West Newbury, MA.

We look forward to seeing many of our "regulars," and hope that new comers will find that special plant they are looking for. As well as beautifying your garden, attracting bees, and feeding birds, you will be helping to ensure that deserving young students, preparing for a career keeping our environment healthy, will get a scholarship boost as proceeds from the sale fund our annual scholarships.

For more details https://www.wngc.org/uploads/1/3/9/0/139005638/2022_plantsale_publicity2.pdf.