Whether it’s a few containers on a balcony or an acreage with multiple planting beds, homeowners are always looking for ways to beautify their surroundings.
The Lower Mainland climate offers gardeners, no matter how green the thumb, many options for plant materials.
There are several sales coming up that offer selections of flowers, bushes, shrubs, trees, fruits and vegetables.
• The Langley Garden Club
Saturday, April 30
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sharon United Church grounds
“The Langley Garden Club’s Annual Spring Show and Sale this year also marks the 70th anniversary of the club,” noted Pam Erikson, a longtime member.
To mark the occasion, Langley Township Mayor Rick Green is scheduled to cut an anniversary cake at 1 p.m.
The club’s annual Spring Show and Sale marks the official start of the blooming season. Spring bulbs and other flowers, foliage and photographs will be judged in the parlor show, while the club and selected local vendors will have plants and garden items for sale
“Come and see what unusual items you can find for your own garden this year,” she said.
• Kwantlen Polytechnic University School of Horticulture
Saturday, April 30
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
School of Horticulture greenhouses (Langley Bypass)
The School of Horticulture at the Kwantlen Polytechnic University keeps turning out crops of graduates who know gardening, landscaping and food production. To learn how to do all this, they have to learn how to grow a variety of plants and the public can pick up what’s grown there at the annual sale this Saturday.
• The Maples Discovery Gardens Co-op Mothers Day sale
Saturday, May 7
7743 200th St.
The Maples is a non-profit community cooperative.
The six-acre site features botanical and native gardens with community walking paths, an events square, garden plots and agreenhouse, and is the first phase of a community development.
All plant sale proceeds go to Langley Association for Community Living Horticultural Entrepreneurial Incubator (HEI).
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