NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The annual Lesser Known Lovelies Plant Sale at Dillon Nature Center is coming up April 26 and 27. The Friday night event is for DNC members only, but you can buy memberships on Friday night at the sale. Friday night is from 6:30 to 8 p.m. with Saturday from 8 a.m. until the plants are gone.
"These are annual flowers," said Betty Taylor, who helps with the sale. "They need to be planted every year. They bloom and bloom and bloom, much different than perennials that have to store some energy in their roots."
Many of the plants for sale that are not available in most local greenhouses are heat and drought tolerant. Each pack will be priced at $4.50, with rarer plants in packs of four and more common ones in packs of six.
"We have a couple kind of unique things," said James Taylor. "One that I like is Abelmoschus. That is actually in the same genus as okra. It only grows about 12-18 inches tall. It has red flowers. It's really kind of a neat plant. It's no longer commercially available. We have to save our own seed. Nobody else is going to have that."
All funds raised beyond the seed cost during the Lesser Known Lovelies Sale will go to benefit the Dillon Nature Center events & programs.
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