Campus Club/PLANET plant sale set for A-Day weekend
The parking lot at the intersection of Samford Avenue and South College Street will go green in the truest sense of the word Friday and Saturday, April 17 and 18, when the Auburn University Campus Club hosts its 2009 A-Day Weekend Plant Sale. The eighth annual event will offer extended hours --9 a.m. till dark on April 17 and 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on April 18--and the largest selection of plants ever, as the landscape horticulture student organization PLANET merges its annual sale with the Campus Club's A-Day plant extravaganza. Shoppers can choose from among hundreds of bedding plants, shrubs, groundcovers, roses, climbing vines, trees, herb and vegetable plants and blueberry and blackberry plants and also can stock up on Auburn-developed soil amendments, 'MaterDirt for tomatoes and 'TuniaPeat, a custom potting medium for bedding plants that's made with Milo's Tea's spent tea leaves. The two-day plant sale is first come, first served, and cash, checks and credit cards will be accepted. All proceeds go toward an endowment that funds the Campus Club's First Ladies Scholarships in Horticulture program, which annually awards deserving horticulture majors $1,000 scholarships named in honor of past Auburn University first ladies. For more information on the plant sale, contact Mary Lou Matthews at 821-2161 or mmandml@att.net.
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