DOWNTOWN: Plant sale to fund Kennett container gardens

JoAnn Donlick wrote to me about the annual plant sale sponsored by the Kennett Square Beautification Committee, to be held on from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 25, in the Genesis Walkway in downtown Kennett Square.
On sale will be "locally grown top-quality annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables and dahlias as well as Mothers Day arrangements, new mixed arrangements, hanging baskets, raffle, silent auction and plants donated from local gardeners."
"This will be most special since it marks 50 years of annual plant sales," she writes. " As you know proceeds go to beautifying Kennett Square with trees and container plantings. . . . The success of this endeavor has been dependent upon cooperation between the shop-keeping merchants, council and the committee.  Since no funding is received, all revenue is generated by the annual plant sale."
The volunteer Beautification Committee was formed 50 years ago under the direction of Everitt Miller, then Director of Longwood Gardens.

I for one am impressed year after year with how beautiful these container-gardens are throughout the downtown.