Garden Club prepares for plant sale next month
Posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008
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BELLA VISTA — Braving the cold winds Friday, several members of the Bella Vista Garden Club bundled up and potted plants to sell at the club’s annual plant sale next month.
The group of women gathered to place plants grown in their personal gardens into pots.
Behind one of the greenhouses at the Village Wastewater Co., Geri Hoerner, co-chairman of the plant sale, and the other club members separated and trimmed all sorts of plants and potted them.
“ This is the second time we’ve met to prepare for the sale, ” Hoerner explained. “ We have nine other sessions planned. We break it up into a morning crew and an afternoon crew. The morning crew digs in members’ gardens to remove the plants, and the afternoon crew pots and labels the plants.
“ We should have more than 1, 000 healthy plants for sale, including many varieties of perennials, daylilies, iris, grasses, ground covers, herbs, roses, shrubs, trees and hostas. We’re fortunate to get to take advantage of the innovative recycling program dubbed Nature’s Calling that Village Wastewater Co. offers with a wonderful potting supplement to help grow beautiful plants. ”
Proceeds from the sale provide for the club’s Dorothy Wallace Scholarship and other community projects. The scholarship is given to a horticulture student at the University of Arkansas.
The Bella Vista Garden Club takes care of the pavilion at the Bella Vista Cemetery, the Bella Vista Visitors Center and the Living Memory Garden, and oversees flower-bed maintenance at the Bella Vista Veterans Wall of Honor and Cooper Elementary School’s butterfly garden.
Also on hand will be plants for sale from Nature’s Calling, and the Benton County Master Gardeners will have an information table to answer questions shoppers may have.
The plant sale is scheduled for May 3 at the Tanyard Creek Pavilion on Arkansas Highway 340, just west of U. S. Highway 71. The sale begins at 8 a. m. and lasts until 1 p. m. or until the plants are gone.
For more information, people are invited to the club’s meeting April 23 at United Lutheran Church, 100 Cooper Road in Bella Vista. The social time starts at 11: 30 a. m. with refreshments at noon, followed by a meeting and a program.