We will be at the Bay-Wise Garden Tour this year selling plants native to the Howard County area!
The Bay-Wise Garden Tour will take place on Saturday September 19th, 1-4 PM, rain or shine at 6425 Allview Drive Columbia, MD 21046.
The Tour will have a variety of beautiful examples of landscaping that is beneficial for the Chesapeake Bay. Some of these examples include rain gardens, rain barrels, native plants, deer resistant plants, retaining walls made from recycled materials, vegetable gardens, permeable pathways, and more!
Lauren’s Garden Service will be there selling a variety of native plants for you to have in your own garden.
We will have a variety of plants available for sale (payments can be made with cash, check or credit cards):
- 1 QT Perennials $7, 3 for $15
- 1 Gal Perennials $11, 3 for $30
The plants that we will have available include:
- Joe Pye Weed ‘Baby Joe’
- Butterfly weed
- Cardinal Flower
- Milkweed
- Great blue lobelia
- Tiarella
- Geranium
- Blazing Star
- Coneflower
- Black-eyed Susan
- New York Aster
- New England Aster
- Standing Ovation Little bluestem grass
- Coral Bells
- Goldenrod (fireworks)
- Threadleaf blue star
- Turtlehead
- Silene short and sweet
- Spigelia marilandica
- Heliopsis
- Vernonia
Not sure what some of the plants look like? Here are some pictures with short descriptions!
Spigelia marilandica: beautiful red and yellow blossoms
New England Asters would look great in your rain garden!
Butterfly weed showing off a beautiful butterfly
Liatris spicata in bloom, a beautiful, low maintenance plant
Cardinal Flowers are great for rain gardens and attracting hummingbirds!
Heliopsis is a beautiful yellow blossom that is drought resistant and low maintenance
We hope you can make it out to the Bay-Wise Garden Tour and learn more about what we can do for you to help beautify your landscape as well as be more environmentally friendly, especially for the Chesapeake Bay!