The Okanagan Xeriscape Association’s annual Xeriscape Plant Sale will be held Saturday, May 2, at the unH2O Garden, 4075 Gordon Dr., from 9 a.m. to noon.
Last week, I wrote about pollinator plants that will be for sale in the Butterfly and Mediterranean Gardens.
Here is a summary of the rest of the plants.
In the Native Plant Garden, there will be spring blooming orange arnica, nodding onion, and bluebunch wheat grass.
Showy aster blooms all summer.
All of these are good to create a meadow as they self-seed readily.
Tufted white prairie aster blooms in fall.
Giant wild rye is a tall native grass.
Pink pussytoes is a small, silvery ground cover.
Easy-care Rock Garden plants include sedum varieties: ‘Angelina’, ‘Fuldeglut’ and Russian stonecrop.
There is also ‘Dusseldorf Pride’ thrift (beginning to bloom), hen and chicks and blue fescue grass.
In the Ornamental Grass Garden, we will have switch grass, feather reed grass, blue oat grass, and blue grama grass.
Good companions for grasses, Sedum ‘Autumn Fire’, and ‘Stella d’Oro’ daylilies will also be on sale.
Details and photos of the plants are on OXA’s plant database: www.okanagan-xeriscape.org.
To help you with selection, plants for sale will be set out beside the theme garden they belong with and an expert will be in each theme garden to answer questions.
Each child who comes to the sale can choose, from a display at the cash table, one pot of hen and chicks to take home for their own garden.
Dean Dack, from Classic Compost, has donated his high quality mulch for sale.
Funds raised will support CRIS Adaptive Adventures (Outdoor Pursuits for People with Disabilities). Their group will supply volunteers to bag the mulch and carry it to your vehicle. Bring your own containers if you want to save on plastic bags.
The Kelowna Waldorf School will also have their delicious food and beverages for sale.
Okanagan Xeriscape Association memberships will be available. Benefits include a 10 per cent discount on plant purchases from seven local nurseries, free member’s events, and a discount on OXA classes and workshops.
You can register for the next ‘Introduction to Xeriscape’ class (May 4 & 11) at the sale or on the OXA website.
The new, revised edition of the excellent xeriscape resource book, ‘Creating the Prairie Xeriscape’ by Sara Williams, will be on sale.
Profits go to support OXA.
Beautiful photo cards of flowers and pollinators from the unH2O Gardens will be sold as an OXA fundraiser.
Come and enjoy a morning mingling with other gardeners and getting information about pollinator plants for bees, Seeds of Diversity and the new Make Water Work xeriscape plant project.
Also the regional district is supplying invasive weed information.
Master Gardeners and Xeriscape experts will be there to answer questions. I look forward to seeing you at the sale.
