Two big plant sales happen Saturday morning: the Kelowna Garden Club plant sale at Guisachan Gardens and the Okanagan Xeriscape Association xeriscape plant sale at the unH2O Xeriscape Garden in front of the H2O Aquatic Centre, 4075 Gordon Drive.
Both begin at 9 a.m. with the OXA香蕉视频直播檚 event running until noon, the KGC's event running until 1 p.m.
The xeriscape plants sell quickly so you might want to go there first.
Aside from very healthy, well-labelled plants, the xeriscape plant sale will have:
香蕉视频直播� Xeriscape experts and master gardeners to answer questions
香蕉视频直播� The Okanagan Basin Water Board香蕉视频直播檚 Make Water Work program to encourage reduction in landscape irrigation and promote use of water-wise plants
香蕉视频直播� The Regional District of the Central Okanagan香蕉视频直播檚 invasive plant books and other materials for pick up from the Master Gardener香蕉视频直播檚 table
香蕉视频直播� John Waddington selling rare and unusual xeriscape plants
香蕉视频直播� The Border Free Bee program with information about their pollinator pasture project, native bees, and attracting pollinators to your garden
香蕉视频直播� SeedCo selling Okanagan native seeds
香蕉视频直播� Unless Market selling rain barrels
香蕉视频直播� Classic Compost selling mulch
The OXA will also be selling 2016 memberships to support the work of this not-for-profit organization. Membership benefits include:
香蕉视频直播� 10% discount at seven local nurseries
香蕉视频直播� 10% discount off OXA classes and workshops
香蕉视频直播� Free admission to member-only events: pruning workshops, xeriscape bicycle tour, fall plant swap and social
香蕉视频直播� An opportunity to learn by volunteering in the unH2O Garden
All 2016 OXA members' names will also be entered into a free draw for a lovely collection of xeriscape plants donated by Waterwise Landscape Design. The winner will be drawn at the end of the sale.
Also watch for OXA plant photo cards, class registrations and our favourite xeriscape reference 香蕉视频直播楥reating the Prairie Xeriscape香蕉视频直播� by Sara Williams.
Each child who comes to the sale will be given a pot of chives to take home to plant in their garden to harvest for salads, etc.
Below is a list of the plants for sale, not already mentioned in my recent columns:
香蕉视频直播� A star performer in the Mediterranean garden, Nepeta 香蕉视频直播榃alker香蕉视频直播檚 Low香蕉视频直播�, an exceptionally long-blooming and well-behaved catmint, is a pollinator magnet.
For dry, part shade:
香蕉视频直播� Cushion Spurge (Euphorbia polychroma) has sulphur香蕉视频直播搚ellow flowers now.
香蕉视频直播� Lungwort (Pulmonaria 香蕉视频直播楳rs. Moon香蕉视频直播�) has pink and blue flowers now, followed by large speckled leaves.
香蕉视频直播� Red Coral Bells (Heuchera sanguinea). May blooms attract hummingbirds.
香蕉视频直播� Lambs ears (Stachys 香蕉视频直播楬elen von Stein香蕉视频直播�) large fuzzy leaves form a good ground cover or backdrop to other flowers.
香蕉视频直播� Barren strawberry (Waldesteinia fragarioides), a vigorous ground cover that spreads by runners.
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The Summerland Ornamental Gardens big, two-day plant sale is May 7 and 8, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., a great outing for Mother香蕉视频直播檚 Day weekend. For more info check out the website .
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Final spring session for my xeriscape class is Wednesday, May 4 and 11. For more information or to register online go to
Gwen Steele is executive director of the non-profit Okanagan Xeriscape Association.
