ANNUAL WALPOLE LIBRARY PLANT SALE SATURDAY, MAY 9

     The Friends of the Walpole Town Library plant sale, scheduled each year on the Saturday before Mother’s Day, will be held on the lawn of the Bridge Memorial Library, Main Street, Walpole on Saturday, May 9, beginning at 9:00 am. This popular event will go on until everything is sold, usually well before Noon.

     The sale features healthy perennials, small shrubs, groundcovers, veggies and other plants donated by area residents. Among the favorites donated last year were hybrid daylilies, Shasta daisies, asters, roses, ladies mantle, pachysandra, ferns, dahlias, heirloom tomatoes, mint, chives and many others.

     All area gardeners who would like to donate plants or volunteer to help with pre-sale digging and potting or who have pots to donate are encouraged to call or e-mail chairman Lucy Weber at 756-4338 (lwmcv@comcast.net), Sarah Tucker at 756-9280 (sjtuc@aol.com), or Gretchen Hurlburt at 756-3145.

     Proceeds from the sale benefit both the Bridge Memorial Library and the North Walpole branch, located in North Walpole in the Fire Department Building on School Street.