Native Plant Sale

Saturday, June 7, from 9am to 12pm, Rumson Garden Club (RGC), a member club of the Garden Club of America, will hold a Native Plant Sale at Rumson Borough Hall at 80 East River Road. Rumson Garden Club members will be on hand to answer questions as well as to offer planting tips to help gardeners get the most out of each plant, and to educate and share the benefits of planting New Jersey natives. All proceeds from the sale will go towards funding Rumson Garden Club’s projects to benefit the community. Native plant species are a vital part of New Jersey’s history and heritage, and they provide valuable sources of food, medicine, and pharmaceuticals, as well as aesthetic, economic, and ecological benefits. RGC will offer many natives at the June 7 sale, including Asclepias incarnate (Swamp Milkweed), an erect, clump-forming plant with small, fragrant, pink to mauve flowers, which is commonly found in swamps, river bottomlands and wet meadows. Flowers are followed by attractive seed pods, which release many silky-tailed seeds for dispersal by the wind. Milkweed attracts hummingbirds and is a food source for the larval stage of monarch butterflies and a nectar source for many other insects. And a benefit for Monmouth county residents; it’s Deer resistant! Other native plants offered at the sale will include Coreopsis rosea (Tickseed) which is noted for being the only coreopsis with pink flowers. It is a rhizomatous perennial which typically grows in dense, bushy clumps to 1-2' tall and features daisy-like flowers (1/2 to 1" diameter). Whorls of linear, grass-like, light green leaves lend a fine-textured and airy appearance to the plant. Another plant included in the sale will be Echinacea Cheyenne Spirit (Coneflower), which can be easily grown in average, dry to medium moisture, with well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. This is an adaptable plant that is tolerant of drought, heat, humidity and poor soil. It flowers the first year in a wide range of bloom colors, including purple, pink, red, orange, yellow, cream or white ray flowers with a brown cone.

For shady local gardens, Arctic Fire ® Red dogwood Cornus sericea has beautiful red stems and a compact habit and is at its peak in the winter sunlight. This dwarf variety is perfect for smaller gardens or residential landscapes. Gardeners can plant a few extra to use in winter arrangements and holiday dècor!

Rumson Garden Club members have long known the critical role native plants play in supporting a healthy environment,
thriving wildlife and pollinator populations, reducing the use of pesticides and fertilizers, cleaning air and water, and so
much more.

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