It’s our perennial May predicament . . . how to turn a patch of brown mud into a bed of glorious blooms.
Then, with a 90-day growing season, how to jump start the gardens and keep them blooming until our pumpkins get frosted once again.
Lucky Concord gardeners get a perennial solution – the Perennial Exchange – as the city’s General Services Department and The Friends of the Audi turn the first spade every Mothers Day Saturday.
On May 10, from 8 a.m. to noon, they’ll host the 14th annual floral “marketplace” which draws hundreds of gardeners to the Audi to “split and swap” and share perennial plants and garden know-how.
The community spirit event helps folks increase the beauty of their gardens and the city’s street scape, and like all Audi events, the accent is on affordable and accessible.
So here’s how the exchange works. First, find the fattest perennial clumps in your garden. Take a spade, be ruthless, dig them up. Split them into handfuls, put them in cans or newspaper, and water them well. Bring the plants down to City Auditorium on May 10 and add them to the selection on the tables. Then take your pick among the varieties brought by other gardeners.
