Native Plant Sale Festival
Friday May 14 & Saturday 15, 2010
BWA Annual Native Plant Sale Festival is growing like a weed!
This popular event, renamed The BWA Native Plant Sale Festival is now daylong on May 15 with an expanded list of plants, food vendors and educational programming for all ages at the Monroe County Conservation District’s Environmental Education Center in Bartonsville, PA.
Read about the ADVANTAGES of GOING NATIVE - click here download the PDF
Gardeners and homeowners can come and learn about a variety of native plants and buy what is suitable for their landscaping environment. This unique event which exclusively highlights the largest selection native plants is an invaluable local resource unparallel to none. Gardeners of all levels will have an opportunity to learn about how to participate in gardening methods that support and promote sustainable use of residential land. By growing native plants, people are directly participating in the environmental health of the planet. Native plant use protects the species that belong here, and will help contain groundwater runoff and protect groundwater supplies.
More than a 1,000 plants will be available for sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Some new plants will be on hand, as well as some of the old favorites. The sale will again offer an array of plants native to the Pocono region. It will include dozens of shade and sun perennials including ferns, grasses and an assortment of shrubs available for a variety of habitats in the Poconos, from sun to shade, alkaline to acidic soils, wetlands to dry. All plants will come with growth and habitat information to aid the customer in their planting transition into the garden.
Prices range from $4.50 to $18.00. In addition to the Saturday sale, there will be a BWA members-only sale on Friday evening, May 14.
Not a member yet?
BWA memberships will be available Friday night.
Click here for a tentative list of plants or for more information about the events of the day, contact the Brodhead Watershed Association at 570-839-1120.
Directions:
From Stroudsburg (or Exit 302B from I-80) go north on Rt. 611 to the traffic light in Bartonsville, and turn left onto Rimrock Drive. Follow Rimrock Drive for 0.4 mile, bear right onto N. Easton-Belmont Pike, go 0.2 mile, then bear right onto Running Valley Road. MCCD is 0.7 mile on left.