Garden Club plans plant sale April 30
Madison Garden Club will conduct its annual plant sale on April 30.
MADISON – In what has become a springtime tradition, the annual plant sale by Madison Garden Club has been scheduled for April 30 this year.
The plant sale will open at 8 a.m. and continue until noon.
Club members again will stage the sale at 100 Bluebelle Drive, off Sullivan Street near the Browns Ferry Road intersection. This address is the former home of the late Marion Anderson, charter member and active for 49 years with Madison Garden Club, who opened her lawn each year for the event.
“It must be spring,” club publicist Suzanne Kirkhuff said. “There will be plenty of parking room and easy access.”
Plants in the sale will include daylilies, hostas, tomatoes, peppers, roses, wildflowers, perennials, shrubs, herbs, shade plants and annuals. “We’ll also have a ‘mini’ flea market,” Kirkhuff said.
“The plants in the sale are ones that have done well in our club members’ yards. They are from mature stock that have thrived in our hot summers and clay soil and should do well in local gardens,” Kirkhuff said.
“The sale is staffed by the very gardeners who donated the plants. The buyers can hear first-hand planting tips and instructions. The majority of our members are Master Gardeners,” she said.
In addition, Master Gardener Dorothy Thomas will attend and answer gardening questions with her “Ask a Master Gardener” spot.
Madison Garden Club celebrates its 55th year in 2016. The club is very active in improving the community of Madison, Kirkhuff said, and will use sale proceeds to fund their projects throughout the year.
Among these projects are maintenance of Madison Public Library’s front garden, filling plant pots on Main Street and decorating Madison City Hall for Christmas. The club also will use funds for their “Every Light A Prayer for Peace” program, which culminates with awards to several Madison fifth-graders for their essay on “What Peace Means to Me.”
The club is also donating funds and assisting with the Shiloh Cemetery Bible Garden and antique rose garden on Mill Road.
For more information, including details about joining Madison Garden Club, call 256-721-3603.
