From the Fenelon Falls Horticultural Society
What beautiful weather we have had this week! Tulips, other spring bulbs, daffodils, anemones and primroses are thriving and perennial plants are showing and growing well. All the pollinators should have emerged from last fall’s dried stems by now so the stems can be recycled with no danger of throwing away any important and increasingly necessary insects.
This is a reminder about our wonderful Plant Sale coming up in just over two weeks! We are still in need of plant donations, so if you have plants you would like to donate, please pot them up and label them if you can. If you would like some FFHS volunteers to come to your garden to help with harvesting plants, please go onto backyardbuzz.ca and contact Darlene from there! We are happy to help!
We need houseplants, grasses, ferns and perennials and are also looking for Garden Garage Sale Items (such as gardening books, garden decor, tools, etc.) for a special table set up for that purpose. Plants (and garden decor) can be dropped off at the Fenelon Fairgrounds Agricultural Society Memorial Building on Friday, May 27th between 1 and 4 P.M. and also at 5 to 7 P.M. Thank you for your assistance in this project! It is our major fund-raiser of the year.
Two days after our Plant Sale is our regular monthly meeting and it will be held at the Fenelon Fairgrounds in the same building where our Plant Sale is going to be held. If there are leftover plants, they will be available for sale the evening of the meeting on May 30th. If you hope to get plants that night, please try to arrive by 6:15 or 6:30. the meeting will begin at 7:00 P.M.
We hope to see you at both the sale AND at the meeting!
Timely information about Dandelions:
Dandelions are NOT weeds, but are from the same family as sunflowers.
A dandelion seed can travel up to 5 miles before it lands.
Every part of the dandelion is edible.
1 cup of dandelion greens = 535% of your daily recommended Vitamin K and 112% of Vitamin A.
Up until the 1800’s, dandelions were seen as extremely beneficial. People would actually remove grass to make room for dandelions!
