Community Corner
The Marblehead Garden Club’s 83rd Annual Plant Sale
COME SHOP FOR MOTHER'S DAY!!
The Marblehead Garden
Club founded in 1927, will hold its 83rd Annual Plant Sale on Saturday, May
10th, 2014. Doors open at 8:30 a.m.
until 11:00 a.m. at The
Gerry 5 VFA, 210 Beacon Street, in Marblehead. The Plant Sale is the oldest, continuously
running plant sale in Marblehead.
Plants from the Jeremiah
Lee Mansion’s gardens as well as those from members’ gardens will be
available. Selections include
wildflowers, perennials, annuals, herbs, rock garden plants and ground cover
plants. Garden Club members are on hand to answer questions and provide
gardening tips. Admission to the plant
sale is free of charge. The Gerry 5 VFA is
handicapped accessible.
Proceeds of the plant
sale assist in the cost of maintaining the organic gardens at the historic Jeremiah
Lee Mansion. The Lee Mansion is operated by the Marblehead Museum and
Historical Society. The Marblehead
Garden Club and the Museum and Historical Society have worked cooperatively
since 1936. You may contact the Historical Society at 781-631-1768 for hours of
operation.