Master Gardener Spring
Plant Sale
Brian Jervis: Ask a Master Gardener
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Q: Each year, I have mixed results with flowers
in my garden. Do you have any recommendations for what might work well in our
area? AM
A: Success in the garden can sometimes feel so random,
especially for new gardeners. On our website, we have several resources to help
you make good choices for your garden, and you can always contact our
Diagnostic Center with any questions you may have.
But a great resource with appropriate
plants for your garden is our annual plant sale. In this sale, we offer
varieties that have performed well in our gardens, and we should know, with
about 400 Master Gardeners in Tulsa County.
This year, we have more than 250
varieties of plants in our online plant store listed by category to help you
make selections that best meet your garden needs. These categories include
annuals, perennials, tomatoes, herbs, succulents, stepables, grasses,
pollinator plants and new this year — organic pollinator plants.
I am guessing most of you have been to
Tulsa’s horticultural extravaganza (and awesome park), Gathering Place. Have
you ever walked around Gathering Place, seen a beautiful plant and thought: “I
wish I could have something like that in my garden?” Well, now you can. Working
in conjunction with the horticulturalists at Gathering Place, we have
identified 15 selections in our online plant sale that are part of the
ecosystem at Gathering Place. So if you order some of these beauties, you can
have a little piece of Gathering Place at home. We are pretty excited.
How does an online plant sale work?
Well, the plant sale functions like other online shopping experiences. As you
browse through the selections, you can click on a plant that interests you and
read about that particular plant. The descriptions will tell you whether it
does best in sun or shade or both or grows tall or grows small or just about
any other piece of information you may need to make your selection.
Once you have identified the ones you
can’t live without, proceed to the online checkout, pay, and this part is done.
Then we begin to do the hard part: getting the plants ready for you.
Pick-up is from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. April
16 in the Exchange Center at Expo Square. On this day, you just go to the
Exchange Center, tell us who you are, drive around to the pick-up area, and we
will load your flowers in your vehicle for you. How easy is that?
Also on that day, we will have a pop-up
plant sale where you will be able to shop for additional varieties that would
be great additions to your garden, including milkweed for the Monarchs.
All the proceeds from this sale go to
help fund our educational programs throughout Tulsa County. To shop, just visit tulsamastergardeners.org.
We appreciate your support and look forward to helping you make your garden
even more beautiful.
Garden tips
- Mid-February is a good time to
begin pruning and fertilizing trees and small fruits.
- Now is a good time to cut back
your perennial ornamental grasses, such as pampus grass. Cut back to
remove the dead grass but avoid damaging new buds and early green growth
at the base.
- Begin planting blackberries,
raspberries, strawberries, grapes, asparagus and other perennial garden
crops this month
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