Get Ready for Spring! The Lincoln Garden Club is having their biennial Plant Sale on Saturday May 10th. It will be held at Station Park this year, at the corner of Lincoln Rd and Ridge Road, across from the mall. The plant sale will run from 11am - 2pm.
The plants come from our members’ gardens, the parks we maintain, and from generous donors around town. If you have plants to donate, drop off is from 8-10 am, please contact us for more details. There will also be garden paraphernalia for sale. There will be garden cloches, to protect your tender plants, made by your neighbors and we’ll even have a few handmade bluebird nesting boxes for sale which you could set up right away and maybe catch a second laying! We will have some native plugs ordered through NorthCreek nurseries. These are very small and will need babying in a pot or well tended garden plot. Eupatorium coelestinum <https://www.northcreeknurseries.com/plant-name/Eupatorium-coelestinum->, blue mist Pycnanthemum flexuosum <https://www.northcreeknurseries.com/plant-name/Pycnanthemum-flexuosum->, Appalachian mountain mint Waldsteinia fragarioides <https://www.northcreeknurseries.com/plant-name/Waldsteinia-fragaroides>, barren Strawberry The plant sale is always a fun time to share plant knowledge and see friends. We will have some snacks in Station Park and you can tour our flagship garden. There was an explosion of reports to the state of Massachusetts of jumping worm activity in 2021. Evidence of the worms has decreased considerably since then. The one good thing about them is that they die each winter and hatch from eggs in the spring. A telling sign is a significant pile of castings that look like coffee grounds were dumped on the lawn or garden. Many garden club members have seen jumping worm activity on their property. If you have not, please don’t purchase plants from the sale. We don’t want to spread these critters. If someone offers you a plant that you can’t resist, the best plan is to shake off the soil and rinse the roots until clean in a location that has jumping worms. Eggs are the size of a poppyseed. If there is not enough rainfall, the eggs will remain until next year. Jumping worms cross roads on a hot summer day, climb trees, and travel quickly up through the bottom of pots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=YlOIi2quvQg Belinda 781-577-7004 lincolngardenclub.org
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