REMINDER: Garden Club’s Spring Plant Sale Will Take Place Saturday

The Medfield Garden Club will hold its annual Spring Plant Sale on Saturday, May 21 and according to the Club, the perennials are terrific and attractively priced, but the best part is that the proceeds go back into the town. 

"The best part about supporting the sale is that the proceeds get plowed directly into those colorful planters and islands all around town," the Garden Club said in a press release to Medfield Patch. 

The Spring Plant Sale is a Medfield tradition that is now nearly four decades old.  As one of two fundraisers held during the year, it's the proceeds from the sale that allow the club to maintain nearly 20 roadside gardens all around town.  The sale Saturday, May 21 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Unitarian Church on North Street.

The sale has changed with the town. 

“There was a time when you thought, ‘Garden Club Plant Sale … oh, yes, geraniums,” Garden Club sale chairman Nancy Tella said.  “Now we focus on perennials.”

And those perennials are anything but run-of-the-mill, Tella says. 

“Are you looking for bearded or Siberian iris? Astilbe?  What color?  Chances are, we’ve got it," she said. " These are the plants that grow in our members’ gardens.  Our members are meticulous about dividing plants for this sale and over-wintering them carefully.  What we sell is New England weather tested and gardener approved.”

Proceeds of the sale fund the wayside gardens – now numbering 19 – that dot Medfield and are planted and maintained by the club’s members. 

“The money we make on the sale allows us to purchase thousand of dollars of flowers and plants each year for our public spaces, and to maintain and expand the plantings at places like the Medfield Police and Fire Station,” Club president Debbie Gaines said.  “Supporting the sale is a great way to keep Medfield blooming.”