Bella Vista Garden Club’s annual plant sale
The Bella Vista Garden Club had its annual fall plant sale Oct. 1, where the general public could purchase plants, seeds and bulbs from the club‚ including Bella Vista daffodils.
Kathy Keller, a Bella Vista resident, stopped in and bought two bags of Bella Vista daffodil bulbs after seeing a picture and liking them.
“I wasn’t expecting them to look like that,” she said, “but I guess they do, and that’s even better.”
Club’s president Tony Licausi said that these daffodils are bigger and more striking in their appearance than a typical yellow daffodil.
While they need to be planted in the fall, he said, they bloom in the spring, around the last half of March.
“We worried they weren’t going to make it in time,” Licausi said. “The importer pulled our order out of the container first and got them to us. Otherwise we’d miss a whole year.”
The bulbs, which are imported from Holland, will be available to club members after the sale, he said. The flowers have been planted in front of and around city buildings.
Last year, he said, between the club and the city, nearly 15,000 of these bulbs were planted.
But while they sold some at the plant sale, he said, the club might still have more than they need.
“We’ll probably have some at the next farmers’ market,” he said.
Another buyer, Ralph Trigg, bought some of the daffodils as well as four bags of purple iris bulbs and an aster.
“It’s great,” he said. “We’ve been waiting for it.”
He and his wife, Vickie Trigg, live in Bella Vista but were out of town for the spring sale, so they were very glad to be able to make it to this one, he said.
A nice thing about buying from the garden club, he said, is that the members are very helpful.
“My wife loves flowers, too,” he said, “and since she’s working full time she loves the perennials.”