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Fall Native Plant Sale
New Hope, Pennsylvania - Native plants enable you to create a visually beautiful and nature-friendly landscape, and the Fall Native Plant Sale at Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve is the place to purchase them. The Preserve, known for the diverse collection of native plants on its grounds, will offer for sale more than 200 species of high-quality native wildflowers, vines, ferns, shrubs and trees. All plants are nursery-propagated; none are gathered from the wild.
The Fall Native Plant Sale will be held at the Visitor Center area of the Preserve on two consecutive weekends: Saturdays and Sundays, September 11 & 12 and September 18 & 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Plants also will be available during the week between the sale weekends.
Fall is an ideal season for transplanting native plants. Conditions are favorable for new plantings to settle in before winter. You'll get a jump on next year's garden while filling in the gaps in your garden with natives.
Plant sale offerings include rare plants, such as the Virginia dayflower (Commelina virginica), a Pennsylvania perennial with blue flowers July through August. Also for sale will be unusual species such as dotted mint (Monarda punctata), which bears delicate whorls of pink bracts beneath pale yellow flowers dotted with brown. Look for other treasures such as bottle gentian, American wisteria and winterberry 'Winter Gold', with its salmon-gold berries. There will be ample supply of robust, highly desirable natives such as mountain laurel (Pennsylvania's state flower) and highbush blueberry.
You'll also find native favorites such as eastern columbine, dwarf crested iris, ginger, trumpet honeysuckle, native azaleas, butterfly-weed, summer phlox, cardinal flower, Joe-pye-weeds and asters. Look for deer-defying species, including mountain mint, hardy hibiscus, blue-leaved switchgrasses, Eastern dropseed, Gray's sedge and swamp milkweed.
Knowledgeable staff and volunteers will be on hand to help you choose the most suitable plants for your site and to answer questions. Free resource material will be available, including lists of plants for specific growing conditions.
You also can download these plant lists online in advance of the sale.
To learn more about what native plants are and why they are important, go to http://www.bhwp.org/native/about_native_plants.htm .
To find out about the advantages of native plants for your garden, go to http://www.bhwp.org/native/why_should_i_garden.htm .
For more information about the Fall Native Plant Sale or other programs at the Preserve, visit www.bhwp.org or contact the Preserve at 215-862-2924 or by e-mail at bhwp@bhwp.org .
Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve is located on 1635 River Road (PA Rt. 32) approximately 2.5 miles south of New Hope, PA and convenient to I-95. The Preserve is open daily year-round (closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's days). For more information, visit www.bhwp.org or call the Preserve at (215) 862-2924.
Contact: Nancy Beaubaire, Director of Communications (215) 862-2924
Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve
P.O. Box 685
New Hope, PA 18938
Phone: (215) 862-2924
Fax (215) 862-1846
E-mail: communications@bhwp.org
www.bhwp.org
Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve is managed by the Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve Association Inc., in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
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