NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Betty Taylor with the Hutchinson Horticulture Club said that their plant sale that is coming up from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Dillon Nature Center Main Building is to support an event that happened last month.
"The biggest expense the club has is our Gathering for Gardeners, which we had in March," Taylor said. "We had like 190 people come to that sometime during the day and six great speakers gave great gardening information. They came from Hays and Manhattan and Wichita, just area people that know a lot about gardening throughout the state."
Members provide the plants for the sale each year.
"We have different categories, from annuals to perennials, wildflowers, herbs, vegetables, houseplants, we even have some ground covers, vines and grasses," Taylor said. "Sometimes, even a shrub or a tree will come and be donated to the plant sale."
The sale is at Dillon Nature Center and it's a labor of love for members.
"They usually start extra plants from seed, or divide perennials that they have growing in their garden," Taylor said. "Sometimes, perennials will self-sew, so they have seedlings that they can pot up. There's very strict rules about getting things potted up and settled into the pot so many days before the plant sale so we know the plant will survive. We've had very good reports about our plant material that we sell."
Also, the plant sale supports monthly club meetings on the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. The April 18 meeting is Julia Hulsey on Growing Peanuts and will take place at the Dillon Nature Center, Taylors' Cabin at 3002 East 30th.
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