From bee balm to blue cohosh, passionflower to phlox, the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art’s much-anticipated Wildflower, Native Plant and Seed Sale will bloom this weekend.
Celebrate spring and help sustain the environment with wildflowers, native plants and seeds. Choose from a wide variety of regional plants and seeds suitable for full sun or deep shade, and for wet or dry soil. Many of the offerings are also less attractive to deer, according to a conservancy press release.
The plants in the sale are nursery-propagated; none are collected from the wild. A large percentage are grown from seeds that are collected by Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art volunteers from the gardens surrounding the Brandywine River Museum of Art, and from the conservancy’s adjacent meadows, the release said.
Packets of these same seeds, hand-collected, cleaned, and packaged by the garden volunteers, are available during the plant sale as well as year-round in the museum shop for $2 each or $5 for three packets.
Some plants are sold as small communities of compatible species. This means that a pot with a large foamflower may also contain a seedling wild columbine or wild geranium; customers pay for the primary plant, only. Such combinations can be separated and planted individually or planted as one to grow as a group.
Nearly every batch of plants at the sale is presented with an informative sign, usually containing a color photo, to help its owner better understand where the plant will grow best and what it can be expected to look like when it matures. Each plant comes with a label which includes the basic attributes specific to that plant: typical size, time and color of flower, its sun preference (full sun, part shade, shade) and soil moisture preference (wet, moist or dry) and, if there is room on the label, a comment regarding its value to birds, bees and butterflies.
For gardeners who want even more information, conservancy staff and volunteers will be available to answer questions and provide planting and horticultural hints. All proceeds from the sale benefit the conservancy's diverse, naturalized gardens.
For a list of plants that are expected at the sale, visit http://www.brandywinemuseum.org/documents/PlantSaleList2015.pdf. The sale will run Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; a members’ preview will be held on Friday, May 8 from 1 to 4 p.m.
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