The Oxford Garden Club is offering residents the opportunity to adopt a plant that needs a home and donate money to a local worthy cause.
On Saturday, Sept. 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the club is hosting a ‘Landscapers Sale? at 2710 Mann Road in Clarkston ? the home of professional landscaper Nan Malone.
Malone has sold her house and land to a developer and is moving to Tennessee.
Rather than see her beautiful collection of botanicals literally plowed under by the bulldozers of Progress, Malone is allowing the Oxford Garden Club to sell them for charity.
A wide variety of flowers, shrubs, trees and other assorted plants will be for sale at very reasonable prices, according to Garden Club member Jan Burns, of Oxford.
Malone’s extensive green inventory includes hostas, several varieties of lillies (such as oriental, day, tiger to name a few), yuccas, morning glories, lily of the valley, spruce trees, weeping cherry trees, hollyhocks, burning bushes, peonies, lilacs, boxwoods, sedum, red buds, snowball viburnum and much, much more.
Burns said proceeds from the plant sales will benefit a local organization.
Being a non-profit group, Burns said each November the club donates the money it raised that year to organizations such as Crossroads for Youth, Seven Ponds Nature Center, Polly Ann Trail, Oxford/Orion FISH and the Oxford Public Library.
‘We like to try to keep it gardening-related,? she said.
Who will receive this year’s donation has not yet been determined. ‘We haven’t discussed it yet,? Burns said.
For more information about the plant sale or Garden Club call (248) 628-0601.
The plant sale is an excellent opportunity to save some of nature’s beauty and donate to the community.