Garden Flowers Needed!

We’re excited to be using only flowers and greens from members’ gardens in this year’s centerpieces.

Can you contribute a few stems?

We’re looking for not just big blooms, but things like –

– greens like hosta leaves or similar

– blooming shrubs like spirea, lingering rhododendron flowers, some azaleas

– vines like a single clematis bloom from your plant or other climbers

– nepeta, salvia, sage, camomile

– lady’s mantle, daisies, lupine, wood anemone, foxgloves, roses

– a few of the last peonies, coral bell, iris or allium

– a few stems of an annual

We’re especially hunting for smaller (like 4-8”) hosta leaves that can be found both on smaller-leafed plants and toward the center of larger leafed plants.

The idea is to gather a sampling of flowers from many gardens — like an unnoticeable few from each hosta or nepeta or daisy plant for instance — about 5-15 stems total depending on garden size and type of flower or green.

Please email me at ellen.h.whitney@gmail.com if you can help by contributing some flowers.

I’ll be picking flowers in members gardens this Tuesday 8-3 and if needed 6-8pm and early Wednesday too.

I’ll stop by and pick judiciously from your garden — or you can leave a bucket with your contribution and let me know where and when it pick it up (I’ll transfer your contribution to my own bucket).

Alternately, drop off flowers/greens at my house anytime on Tuesday or on Wednesdaybefore 11.

There will be buckets by our Ridge Road entrance (315 Lexington Rd at the corner of Ridge; driveway off of Ridge)

This will be fun to do and fun to see!

Thanks for your help!

Ellen Whitney