Growing something good in our NE Georgia neighborhood
Spring Plant Sale: It’s a Wrap, and a Record!
Thank you to our customers, plant donors, Extension partners, friends and ALL the Master Gardeners who helped to make our 2025 Plant Sale a huge success! We sold $8,000 more in plants than the previous year and involved more than 70 volunteers during the 4-day event.
Our opening day saw us busier than bees stocking up on spring nectar, and traffic remained steady all four days — even through intermittent rain showers. In fact, we exceeded our 2024 sales each day of this year’s sale! This money will be used to:
fund our own Headwaters Master Gardener Association community gardening projects and high school scholarships
support Victory Home, where our greenhouse is located and where many of the men in treatment there help us weekly in the greenhouse
improve and maintain our greenhouse operations so we can continue to grow you beautiful, healthy plants
This year we really expanded our inventory of Georgia native flowers, vines trees and shrubs — and our customers seemed very pleased. We also offered decorative pots, terrariums and container gardens created by our talented MGs. Overall, we offered more than 350 different varieties of plants — from tiny “Toe Tickler” groundcovers to native azaleas and rhododendrons to majestic oak and elm trees destined to be 50 feet tall or more!
We hope you enjoyed the Plant Sale as much as we did, and already have the week before Mother’s Day in your calendar for 2026. We’ll see you then!
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It’s Firefly Season: Keep It Glowing!
With the arrival of summer, fireflies, also called Lightning Bugs, are beginning to glow and blink, delighting fans of all ages.
Check out the latest Tips from Our Master Gardeners to learn how you can help these beetle pollinators (yes, fireflies are pollinators!) keep shining for many summers to come.
Much of your planting has been done by June, so this month is mostly about maintenance – weeding, pruning, staking, deadheading and pest/disease control. Here are some tasks to keep your garden healthy and looking good as we enter the dog days of summer:
Prune flowering spring shrubs if you haven’t done this already.
Prune suckers and sprouts from all fruit trees.
Plant annuals that can take the long days of full sun – celosia, portulaca and marigolds are good choices.
Deadhead flowers encourage continued blooming.
Remove dead foliage from spring flowering bulbs after it has died back naturally.
Water deeply a couple of times weekly if needed, instead of more frequent, shallow waterings. Aim for one inch of water a week.
