The Annual Lopez Island Garden Club’s highly anticipated Plant Sale is Thursday, May 10, 10 a.m.-noon at Woodmen Hall. Past years have had the lines forming early, rain or shine, and gardeners bursting through the doors, right at 10, racing to get their first choices from the wonderful plants donated by other gardeners from all over the island. The selection of plants this year includes, trees, shrubs, perennials, groundcovers, veggie and berry starts, and a variety of native species.

New this year to the Plant Sale there will be a Silent Auction where shoppers can make bids on an amazing selection of plants donated by local businesses and nurseries, including Azusa Farm and Gardens, Bakerview Nursery, Boxwood Farm, Christianson’s Nursery, D Street Nursery, Pelindaba Lavender Farm, Mitchell Bay Farm and Nursery, Sunset Builder’s Nursery, T & D Farms and Wells Nursery.

Also new this year, in addition to plants for sale, there will be a used Garden Books section and Botanical Art and cards by local artists Daphne Morris, Kate Scott, Linda Ann Vorobik and Anne Whirledge Karp.

Funds raised by the Plant Sale are used by the Garden Club to finance their yearly scholarship awarded to a graduating Lopez High School senior and to award stipends to guest speakers that give presentations at the Garden Club Meetings. There are now over 70 members of the Garden Club that meet monthly, September through June, on the second Thursday of the month at Woodman Hall, from 9:30- 11:30am. Every other year the Garden Club also sponsors the Lopez Garden Tour.

Put on your gardening gloves and join the fun this year at the Plant Sale on May 10^. Donations to the Plant Sale can be dropped off at Woodmen Hall on Wednesday, May 9, 3-5 p.m.