Members of the Marion Garden Group have been digging, dividing and donating to get ready for the first annual Diggings and Donations Plant Sale to be held Saturday, May 14 from 9 a.m. to noon at Bicentennial Park on the corner of Main Street and Spring Street. The rain date will be the follow day at the same time.

There will be hostas, black-eyed Susans, herbs, groundcovers (including pink lilies of the valley and pachysandra), dogwood, daylilies, clematis, lilac, iris, salvia, sedum, succulents and more. Some of the specimens have been grown in Marion gardens for decades. A special feature of the sale are 100-year-old orange daylilies. In addition to mature varieties of perennials there will also be seedlings, cut flowers, handmade bird and garden crafts and houseplants for sale.

All proceeds will benefit village beautification projects. The Garden Group also sponsors the Holiday Greens Boutique held every December at the Music Hall in conjunction with the Marion Holiday House Tour.

The Garden Group is made up of 60 active and 30 affiliate members with an interest in gardening and the betterment of Marion. Members plant window boxes in the village four times each year with ongoing maintenance. They volunteer at two area nursing homes conducting monthly flower arranging classes, and they make and distribute holiday wreaths for businesses and residents of the town. This year, the group has made donations to the Sippican School Greenhouse, the Sippican Lands Trust and to Pollinator Corridor, Best Bees Beehive, Seed Giveaway and Grow Native Massachusetts.

For more information, visit the group’s website: www.mariongardengroup.org.