Participants promoting an Earth-friendly focus
Branford Garden Club (shown here), Branford Community Gardens and additional community organizations will be on the Branford green Saturday, May 18 for their annual spring plant and seedling sale with an earth-friendly focus. Photo courtesy Branford Garden Club
Press release, Branford Garden Club and Branford Community Gardens
The Branford Garden Club, the Branford Community Gardens and additional community organizations will be on the Branford green from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm, Saturday, May 18 for their annual spring plant and seedling sale. The rain date is Sunday, May 19, noon to 4 p.m
The sale will include flower seedlings, organic plants and herbs, native plants, pollinator plants that attract bees, butterflies and birds, perennial plant divisions from Branford Garden Club members’ personal gardens, container patio gardens, and maps of floral notes. Fresh homemade products will also be offered.
Treat someone special or grace your table with a unique floral arrangement. Members of the Branford Garden Club will bring fresh cut flowers from their personal gardens and arrange bouquets in pots that will be available for a free will donation.
Bartlett Tree Experts of Guilford will distribute 200 bare root trees (Eastern Redbud trees) through its Bartlett Legacy Tree Program to buyers on a first come, first served basis.
There is a special emphasis this year to help gardeners become more earth-friendly in their gardens by offering more native plants and pollinator flowers. As many flower and plant seedlings as possible are grown in peat-free, compostable Cowpots™ or reused plastic containers.
Master Gardeners from the UConn Master Gardening Program will be on hand to answer gardening questions. A children’s table will have small plants for children to pot with the help of members of the Branford Garden Club, and packets of sunflower seeds will be available for children to take home.
Proceeds from the sale help fund a wide variety of community activities and conservation efforts by the Branford Garden Club and Branford Community Gardens. Both organizations are non-profit volunteer organizations. The Branford Community Gardens maintains a garden at 16 Birch Road with individual plots for Branford residents and also grows produce that it donates to the Branford Community Hall and the Branford Food Pantry.
Among Branford Garden Club’s many civic contributions to community beautification are the planting of thousands of daffodil bulbs throughout the city, maintaining Main Street lamppost baskets and many community garden locations in Branford, Scarecrows annuals on the Green, as well as holiday wreaths and decorations at Joe’s. Trapasso Community House, Blackstone and Willoughby Wallace Libraries.
For more information on these two organizations, visit branfordctgardens.org or branfordgardenclub.org.
