TUPELO • The Lee County Master Gardeners’ greenhouse is jam-packed with plant life equipped to be grabbed up on the annual plant sale April thirteen.
There can be annuals, perennials, vines, herbs, shrubs, bushes and hypertufa, or Quikrete, containers on the sale that runs from eight a.M. To midday on the Lee County Extension Service on Cliff Gookin Boulevard. The after-sale might be from 9 a.M. To 2 p.M. April 15-sixteen.
“As ordinary, a whole lot of the bypass-alongs come from our very own gardens,” said Donna Tucker, a Master Gardener volunteer and chairman of the plant sale.
Annuals will include New Guinea impatiens, diascia, Joseph’s coat, Mexican heather and fuschias. Perennial offerings are lamb’s ear, bee balm, Mexican petunias, cannas, umbrella flowers and crocosmia.
Those searching out vines will discover moonflower, hyacinth bean, morning glory and sweet potato. Trees and shrubs include angel trumpets, roses, Japanese maples and Chinese snowballs. Herbs might be rosemary, lemon balm, basil, lemongrass and thyme.
Prices range from $2 to $five for most flowers, with some forte flowers bringing a bit greater. Cash and exams may be conventional at the sale.
“We’ll have between 20 and 30 distinctive styles of coleus,” said volunteer Cheryl Storey. “Our goal is to have 1,000 coleus plant life on the market and we’ll make that. Most of these have been taken from cuttings from our yards.”
The Master Gardeners begin preparing for the sale in October. They start off assembly every different Monday inside the greenhouse to get flora ready. By February, they’re amassing every Monday from 8 a.M. To midday.
“Sometimes we come again after lunch and work a few greater,” Tucker stated. “We usually have among eight and 10 volunteers every workday, once in a while greater, once in a while much less. They come as they can.”
Money raised at the sale enables fund the institution’s 17 ongoing initiatives, which includes helping with the gardens at Sanctuary Hospice House, Extension and the Celebration Garden on Spring Street; the Junior Master Gardener software; and scholarships and summer time camps.
