SPECIAL OPEN DAY EVENT: PLANTS TO ATTRACT BUTTERFLIES & HUMMINGBIRDS – PLANT SALE & CLASSES

Alan Shapiro of Grandiflora Nursery in Gainesville, a noted expert in native plants, will be bringing a selection of plants for sale to benefit Nehrling Gardens. Please see below for a sample of the plants that will be available.

Alan will also be giving two talks on gardening for butterflies and hummingbirds during the sale. Please see below for his bio.

• Date: Saturday, July 8 at Nehrling Gardens
• 9:00 – 1:00 Plant Sale (Gardens remain open until 3:00 PM)
• 10:00 AM & 12 noon: Talks by Alan Shapiro: Gardening to Attract Butterflies and Hummingbirds.

PLANTS at GRANDIFLORA SALE

• The focus will be on butterfly and hummingbird attracting plants and native plants, and will include some unusual varieties.
• Most plants will be in 1 gallon pots and retail for $4 – $5, proceeds to benefit Nehrling Gardens.
• If you are interested in several of a specific variety, please email [email protected] in advance or call the nursery at 800-933-9638

Firebush

Firespike

Lantana – native

Swamp Mallow (Rose Mallow – Hibiscus coccineus)

Blue Daze

Cigarette plant and Cigar plant

Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)

Creeping Bush clover (Lespedeza repens)

Ruella – Mexican petunia (new sterile hybrid)

Wild sage

Bottlebrush

Variegated beautyberry

Angelonia

 

ALAN SHAPIRO

Alan is owner of Grandiflora, a 106-acre wholesale nursery specializing in perennials and other hard-to-find plants in Gainesville FL. In 2003, the nursery was named Ornamental Outlook Magazine’s “Operation of the Year”.

Former owner of the Plant Shoppe in Greenery Square, an award-winning Florida garden center.

Past-President of the Florida Nursery, Growers and Landscape Association in 1996.

Winner of the FNGLA’s prestigious Wendell E. Butler Award.

Winner of the Southeastern Horticulture Society’s Robert Balentine Award in 2010.

Co-founder of the annual Spring Garden Festival to benefit Kanapaha Botanical Gardens.

Co-founder of the Floriculture Field Day, later re-named Florida Flower Trials, a regional symposium held yearly in partnership with Walt Disney World and the Florida Nursery, Growers and Landscape Association.

Co-founder of the FNGLA’s Florida Plants of the Year Program.

Former contributor to Ornamental Outlook Magazine with the monthly column, “Talking Dirt”.

Still playing in the dirt and learning about plants!

Alan Shapiro

Grandiflora

Long-lasting Southern Blooms

352-332-1220

800-933-9638

www.grandiflora.pro