Newsletter and Annual Plant Sale

Spring 2006 Northern Neck Newsletter

THE ANNUAL PLANT SALE -SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 – 9:00 UNTIL IT’S OVER.Your plant sale committee is hard at work preparing for our big fund-raiser. This year we’ll be buying some of our plants from a wholesaler in the spring and raising them into sizable, healthy specimens for our big event. We hope to have a wide variety of flowers, shrubs and trees available, making this our best sale ever! You can help too! Look over your natives and non-invasive aliens for those that would benefit from division and pot up a few for us. Or start some seedlings. Remember, this is a Ways & Means project in addition to an effort to spread the good news about native plants in the landscape, so share your wealth! Questions?? Sandy Blackwell at 453-9183 or Judy Burgess at 453-3933Editors’ note: We’ve noticed a theme in this issue: the Northern Neck chapter, Virginia Native Plant Society, is partnering with several other groups this spring in exploring the Northern Neck and making it a more beautiful, wildlife- and people-friendly place to live. Below are reports on what’s going on with us and some of our friends.