BRATTLEBORO — The Windham County Conservational District is delighted to present its annual plant sale, an opportunity for local gardeners to order nursery stock for spring planting needs.
Offerings include plants with landscape, conservation, revegetation, and food value: a rich diversity of plants that are used to control erosion in an ongoing effort to stabilize stream banks and restore backyards following Tropical Storm Irene.
Available conifers are balsam fir, Norway spruce, and northern white cedar. Hardwoods are red and sugar maple and American beech. Wildlife and songbird shrubs and tree selections include red osier dogwood, black elderberry, arrowwood, nannyberry, American filbert/hazelnut, and American hornbeam.
Semi-dwarf apple, cherry, peach, plum, and pear trees, and a large selection of perennials, are also available for spring planting. Blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, currants, rhubarb, kiwi and asparagus, repellants, Viterra Agri-gel and VisPore mats are included in the program. Bluebird houses return this year.
Trees and shrubs are all bare rootstock. Orders will be taken until April 12, with stock pick up April 27 in the Natural Resources Department at the Windham Regional Career Center next to Brattleboro Union High School.