The Sautee Nacoochee Center is offering a plant sale on Saturday, October 8 featuring plants native to north Georgia. The community can purchase over 60 species of plants adapted to native pollinators.
The Environmental Heritage Program of the Sautee Nacoochee Community Association will host the fall Native Plant Sale for Pollinators from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Perennial wildflowers, vines and shrubs will be available. Click here for a list of plants that will be available for sale or visit snca.org.
An example of an interesting native plant that will be sold is Georgia Aster. A plant that grows in dry, sunny places in clay soil that is drought tolerant is one that everyone’s yard can use! Georgia Aster has the largest flower of any native aster and it is bright lavender to bright purple in color. It gets tall but can be cut back mid-summer for more compact growth. It can fill an open area as it would in its native prairie habitat. This plant became rare due to the destruction of its prairie habitat in Georgia.
Proceeds of the sale support the Center’s Native Peace Garden.
Location and more info.
The Sautee Nacoochee Center is located at 283 Highway 255 North in Sautee. Once on the SNC campus, look for the “Native Plant Sale” signs.
For more information about the plant sale or about the Environmental Heritage Program, contact Johnna Tuttle at 706-878-3300, [email protected].
The Sautee Nacoochee Community Association is a member-based organization serving White and Habersham Counties and all of northeast Georgia. Its mission is to value and nurture individual creativity, along with the historical, cultural and environmental resources of the Sautee and Nacoochee Valleys and surrounding area.
For more information, visit www.snca.org.
