Botanic Gardens to preview plant sale

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4:46 p.m., March 18, 2005--Spireas, the featured plants at this year’s University of Delaware Botanic Gardens (UDBG) plant sale, will be one of the topics under discussion at the plant sale preview slide presentation from 7 to 9 p.m., Wednesday, March 23, at the Girl Scouts of Chesapeake Bay Council Building on South College Avenue in Newark.

John Frett, professor of horticulture and UDBG director, will highlight the featured plants and review their cultivation requirements. The event also gives gardeners an opportunity to ask questions about the other plants available at the sale, which will be held Saturday, April 30, in conjunction with Ag Day, an annual celebration at the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

A variety of out-of-the-ordinary perennials--from trees to flowering plants--will be sold. For those who want to preorder, a list of sale plants and an order form are provided on the UDGB web at [http://ag.udel.edu/udbg]. Just print out the order form and mail it with a check made out to the University of Delaware. Orders will be processed in the order received and can be picked up from 2-8 p.m., Friday, April 29.

Plant sale proceeds fund UD student horticultural internships, as well as UDBG horticultural education and research programs.

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