The Weyburn Horticultural Society will host the Spring Plant Sale fundraiser this Thursday, May 15th, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. or until everything is sold out, in the Community Room at the Weyburn Credit Union, via the central entrance located at 205 Coteau Avenue.
WHS Member Heather Cugnet said anyone wishing to donate plants to the sale can drop off between 9 and 11 a.m.
"As you bring plants in, they'll be helping to price things. Hopefully, you can put a label on your things so we know what they are and that helps us a lot. And then the girls will price things and we'll get them into their categories and go from there."
"It's a good thing to see what everybody grows and just share that information. We have a lot of knowledgeable people. We have books when we have to look up stuff and of course now with your cell phones, we can find out what stuff is, if you don't know what it is, and find out the conditions for it to grow and whatever you need, so that's always good. It's good for the public to meet the members and see who all's in horticulture."
Cugnet said they have members growing items specifically for the sale each year, and what they get donated is always a variety.
"Sometimes we have seeds, sometimes people have done their potatoes and there's some leftover seed in that, we've had chives, we've had herbs. We've had a real good variety of things say so it's really nice to share that," she shared. "People can bring in their perennials, if you've thinned out things or if you've got house plants or anything you want to donate, that would be awesome."
"We've had raspberries. We've had cotoneasters, we've had rhubarb, we've had asparagus, we've had everything, and every year is kind of a surprise because you don't know what's coming in, and what people are bringing in to donate, so that's really nice. We usually have a ground cover section, sometimes we have a succulents section. We do lots of irises, lilies, all kinds dailies, regular lilies. Sometimes specialty lilies. We've had rhubarb. We've had grapes. We usually have grapes. So there's really a good variety."
She advises anyone preparing donations to line their pots with coffee filters or newspapers.
"Then it keeps the dirt from leaching out the bottom, so put your dirt on top, and then that's really helpful for us and we don't have stuff falling out all over the table and everything. So it's a good way to transplant and it keeps everything kind of together, keeps a little moisture in the soil."
Another option is plastic bags, for those who don't have pots, as the club members bring extra for the sale.