For the past 37 years, the Red Mountain Garden Club’s annual greenery sale has been a holiday tradition, featuring a variety of wreaths, garlands and more for holiday decorating.
This year’s sale will take place Dec. 4 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, and chairwoman Carol Ann Phillips could not be more excited.
“This is my favorite event of the year,” Phillips said. “It’s a great way to kick off the holiday season. We’re a smaller garden club and we aren’t able to get together too often, so we all look forward to coming together to work on this sale.”
Phillips noted that there also is a gift section, which club members like to stock with unusual items you may not find elsewhere.
“This year we have more centerpieces than ever before,” she said. “We also have a bunch of amaryllis flowers, teacher’s gifts, mailbox and lamppost arrangements, boxwoods and a ton of other great stuff.”
For buyers who want to create their own holiday arrangements, fresh hand-cut greenery will be in abundance. Some of the greenery is sourced from sourced from members’ own yards.
It takes months of planning to prepare for the sale, Phillips said, with help from Pratt Brown of Pratt Brown Landscapes Inc. and McCorquodale Transfer.
The funds raised by the sale will support the club in its efforts to maintain the Red Mountain Garden Club Memorial Garden at the Birmingham Museum of Art, which members have maintained since 1955.
For more information about pricing and options, visit redmountaingardenclub.org/greenerysale.
— Emily Williams
