The Marion Garden Group, is hosting its annual Plant Sale on Saturday, May 13 in the park across from the Art Center. Members have been digging, dividing, and repotting a good selection of beautiful perennial plants, herbs and shrubs that have thrived in local gardens and are offered for sale to the community at reasonable prices ranging from $3.00 to $10.00 dollars.

“We have a sure supply of hardy and well established plants,” reported Liz Hatch, who is organizing the sale. “Strawberries, 100-year old day lilies, lilacs, and daisies from seaside estates and village gardens will provide years of continued enjoyment."

The Garden Group’s efforts were well received by the community last year. This year, the sale will feature double the amount of plants and lots of new varieties. Further efforts by the group have been made to provide plant information as well as plant descriptions, planting guidelines, and photos.

The sale will also offer an educational component, dealing with the threat to bees and plant pollinators.

Local honey from Garden Group members’ hives will be offered for sale, as well as beeswax candles.

Sippican School will also offer plants that students have grown themselves from seeds. In addition to all the natural plant material for sale, there will be garden crafts, topiaries, house plants, and more. All proceeds from the Marion Garden Group sale benefit the town.

The Marion Garden Group plants and maintains the window boxes and planters throughout the village, collaborates with the Sippican Lands Trust to fund the planting of bulbs in public spaces, supports the Sippican School Garden by helping to fund the school’s greenhouse, conducts flower arranging classes for area nursing homes, promotes pollinator initiatives, including the management of local bee hives, and is working to establish a seed library at the Elizabeth Taber Library and enhance the town’s reference book collection.

The Garden Group welcomes donations to help fulfill its mission. Contact them at Marion Garden Group, PO Box 403, Marion, MA 02738.