Spring Affair, the midwest’s largest gardening event, will be Saturday, April 28 at the Lancaster Event Center from 9-4 p.m. More than 500 different varieties of plants will be offered at the day-long plant sale, with educational talks, “Talk-abouts” and garden vendors all under the same roof.

Plants are selected for regional suitability, uniqueness and demand and are provided by Bluebird Nursery, Inc. of Clarkson, NE. Gardeners will find perennials, herbs, native plants, temperennials, vines and a variety of trees and shrubs—something for everyone.

Admission to the sale is free. The plant sale, plant talks and vendors of garden art, sculptures, furniture and other items are all under one roof in Pavilion I, on the northeast edge of the Lancaster Event Center. Plenty of parking is available just north of the building.

Plant talks will focus on the plants in Lincoln’s Sunken Garden; on how to choose and use plants in unusual ways for beautiful, edible containers; and learn what it takes to create fairy gardens and wall art from the smallest of plants. Throughout the day, “Talk-about” speakers will wend their way through the plant sale discussing topics ranging from using herbs to composting.
 

Plant Talks:  All Hands on ...
Location: Lancaster meeting room, east end of Pavilion I

10:30 “All Hands at Sunken Gardens”
Steve Nosal and Alice Reed, Lincoln Parks and Recreation
12:00 “All Hands on Pots—Container Combinations”
     Terri James, Extension Assistant—Urban Gardening, University
     of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
1:30 “Wall Art and Fairy Gardens”
      Ron Harvey, Urban Trail Gardens