The Annual Lopez Island Garden Club’s highly anticipated Plant Sale is happening this year on Thursday, May 9 from 10 a.m. until noon at Woodmen Hall on Fisherman Bay Road. Lopez gardeners eagerly form lines at the door of the sale early, rain or shine, and enthusiastic shoppers burst through the doors, right at 10 a.m., racing to get their first choices from the wonderful plants donated by other gardeners from all over the island.

The selection of plants includes trees, shrubs, perennials, groundcovers, veggie and berry starts, and a variety of native species.

Repeating last year’s popular and successful event will be a “Silent Auction”. Shoppers can make bids on an amazing selection of plants donated by local businesses and nurseries, including Azusa Farm and Gardens, Bakerview Nursery, Christianson’s Nursery, D Street Nursery, Pelindaba Lavender Farm, Mitchell Bay Farm and Nursery, Sunset Builder’s Nursery, T & D Farms, Anacortes Ace Hardware, Lopez Island Village Red Apple Grocery Store, and Wells Nursery as well as others. In addition to plants for sale, there will be a used Garden Books section – a very popular feature at last year’s sale.

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 almost 90 members of the Garden Club that meet monthly, September through June, on the 2nd Thursday of the month at Woodmen Hall, from 9:30 a.m. ‘till noon.  Every other year the Garden Club also sponsors the Lopez Island Garden Tour. Watch for more information coming soon – it is scheduled for June 13 this year.

Put on your gardening gloves and join the fun this year at the Plant Sale on May 9! Donations to the Plant Sale can be dropped off at Woodmen Hall on Wednesday, May 8 from 3-5 p.m.