Rumson Garden Club’s Native Plant Sale will feature a variety of beautiful plants for Monmouth County gardens, and club members will be on hand to offer tips and planting advice
When: Saturday, June 7 — 9am-12pm
Where: Rumson Borough Hall (parking lot behind building)
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.
