The Fairfield Glade Garden Club will be selling ferns and geraniums again this year. The plants to be sold are grown by students at Cumberland County High School in the Greenhouse Management Class taught by Danny Wilson, a former recipient of the Garden club’s Helena Schmidt Scholarship.
Proceeds from the sale of plants each year are divided between CCHS Greenhouse Maintenance and the Garden club’s Helena Schmidt Scholarship Fund.
The high school will make improvements to the greenhouse with their proceeds. For instance, last year they installed Environmental Controllers in the Greenhouse.
They will also use some of this year’s proceeds to buy the starter ferns and geraniums that will be grown by next year’s students. Another outlet for their funds is supplies for the Agricultural Mechanics class at the high school.
The Fairfield Glade Garden Club will use their proceeds to fund their Helena Schmidt Scholarships. These scholarships are offered to local high school seniors who are interested in careers in agriculture, animal science and environmental fields among others.
Geraniums in various colors priced at only $8 each, and ferns at $15 each, will be available Monday and Tuesday, April 21 and 22, at the Cumberland County High School in Crossville from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. and at the Village Green Mall in Fairfield Glade on Thursday, April 24 from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. and again on Friday, April 25 from 8 a.m. – noon.
Shoppers are advised to arrive early for the best selection and to bring their own containers to transport their plants home.
The Garden Club’s Spring bake sale will accompany the plant sale at the Fairfield Glade Village Green Mall on Thursday from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
“Shop treats for yourself or as a gift,” Spancake said. “One hundred percent of the proceeds from the bake sale will benefit the Fair- field Glade Garden Club’s Helena Schmidt Scholarship Fund.”