The plant sale hosted by the Wareham Garden Club on Saturday, May 11 gave local gardeners the resources they will need to grow beautiful flowers and hearty vegetables. 

On that chilly spring morning, however, the plants weren’t showing their summer colors, but rather various shades of green. 

“It’s hard, because we have a plant sale fairly early in the season, so the perennials aren’t even up yet,” said Joyce Holster, a member of the garden club. 

The gardeners with the club have spent the past several months growing and tending to the plants that went on sale that morning. 

Sheila Pierce, another garden club member, said many of the plants for sale came from overgrown plants in members’ yards. She said members dug up the plants, split them, put them in pots and, in some cases, put the plants near their houses to keep them warm through the winter. 

Holster picked out a dwarf blue iris from one of the club’s tables. While it only had a green stem, it will be a “brilliant blue flower” with a yellow or orange throat once in bloom, she said. 

Local resident Robert Seale picked out a tomato plant before going to check out the rest of the plant sale. 

He usually puts some tomato plants on his porch, and came that day to pick out the plants as well as some flowers, which would be for Mother’s Day and his wife’s and daughter’s birthdays, he said. 

Some flowers in bloom were available at the plant sale. Holster said the club buys some of these flowers from the Nessralla Farms greenhouse, a purchase supported with funds from A.D. Makepeace. 

Overall, the money brought in from the sale will go to support the club’s scholarships and the plantings it does around Wareham in service of the community, she said.