4H/Master Gardener Spring Plant Sale

Article submitted by Darla Huffman:The always popular Annual 4H/Master Gardener Spring Plant Sale is underway. If you are interested in adding to your landscape or garden this year and are not familiar with this event, you might want to check it out. Each plant is chosen for its suitability to this area and purchased from nurseries that meet the standards developed over the past 18 years of plant sale success.

Over 600 packets containing the order forms and plant descriptions were mailed out this week to past customers and plant lists requests. If you did not receive this information your can find all of it online www.pickensmg.org where you can also see pictures of the plants that are for sale.

What’s for sale? Too much to list here, of course, but blueberry bushes are always popular and these are old enough to start bearing the first year. Other berries available are blackberries, strawberries, raspberries and other home grown eatables are figs and muscadines. Then there is a section entitled Featured Plants, that features some interesting unusual things, mostly shrubs and small trees such as Deutzia; Yuki Snowflake, Thuja Green Giant and Pink Lemonade Blueberry. You’ll fine plenty of old favorites traditional to this area Crape Myrtle, Gardenia, Azaleas (both evergreen and native) and, what no southern yard can be without, Camellia.

You can order online or come by the Extension Office, if you can find it. It is the process of moving to a new location, out of the depot, where it has been for all of these years and into the Chamber of Commerce Building in Lee Newton Park (502 Stegall Drive, Jasper, GA 30143) on the first of February. So come and visit us there or call 706.253.8840 or email uge1227@uga.edu.

Order and pay for your plants by February 27 to be picked up on Saturday, March 14 at the red barn behind Jasper Middle School. This is not only a great opportunity to get some really good plants but also to support the 4H and Master Gardeners in one of their few fundraising activities. All the proceeds from the sale go back into the community. A definite win/win situation.