Member Grown Perennials for Sale at Garden Mart 2023

Join us on May 13, 2023 at the Easton Firehouse Green, 1 Center Road, For Garden Mart 2023!

Perennials Preview: Featuring member grown, locally dug perennials. These are tried and true selections that have been successful in our gardens. You can even ask the gardeners, who are at the sale that day, about the plants and get the “inside scoop”. There will be peonies, ferns, phlox, hellebores, columbine, astilbe, coneflower, foxglove, pulmonaria, yarrow, sedums, and more. We will have pollinator friendly and native selections. This year, CT Native plants will be identified with special “flags” to help you find these plants. We will have member grown trees and shrubs, including White Fig trees, Brown Turkey Fig trees and lilacs. We have a new member who is a Naturalist and will be present to answer questions about CT Native plants. For the second year in a row, we will have an “Early Spring Perennials and Ephemerals” section and “Annuals That Act Like Perennials” section. Early spring perennials, such as hellebores and pulmonaria, and ephemerals, such as winter aconite, bloodroot, wood anemone, merrybells, dutchman’s breeches, start blooming in early March. When the ephemerals stop blooming, these plants go dormant until next spring with their foliage gradually and completely dying back. You might want to mark the location of these special beauties in your garden! Early spring and woodland gardens not only delight with these beautiful blooms, but they provide the earliest nectar for our pollinators! These early spring blooming plants are extremely hard to find in local nurseries, if at all. They often look like “nothing special”, with their foliage and flowers since faded by the month of May. The “Annuals That Act Like Perennials” are plants that happily reseed themselves and are an excellent choice because of this. We will have Nigella/Love in the Mist, Larkspur, Chamomile, etc. With prices on everything skyrocketing this year, you won’t have to deny yourself new perennials with our reasonable prices!

Visit https://www.eastongardenclubofct.org/gardenmart-2023 for more information about Garden Mart 2023.

- Brenda Schultz and Virginia DeCesare, Co-Chairs Perennials