Sunday, August 21, 2011

Growing out native plants this week in Camden (openhouse nursery)








This week we will be repotting 1,000 native plants at our Camden Native Plant Nursery on Tuesday and Wednesday. If you would like to come and meet these plants that will be diverting thousands of gallons of combined stormwater from the CSO system here beside the CCMUA (Camden County's sewage treatment facility) face to face, please e-mail camdencfet@gmail.com Or meet us at the Eve's Garden (the Greenhouse)
412 Jasper Street Camden
9 AM



Here's a list of what we are growing with this initiative round 1:

Blue Lobelia – 50

Blueflag Iris – 50

Brown-eyed Susan – 200

Canadian Goldenrod – 50

Cardinal Flower – 50

False Sunflower – 50

Foxglove Beardtongue – 50

New England Aster – 100

Purple Coneflower – 200

Swamp Milkweed – 100

Wild Bergamont – 100




This initiative is with the Rutgers Water Resource Deparment (really amazing website. check out the free rain garden manual) through the Camden SMART initiative.