ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, May 10, 1996 TAG: 9605100013
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG
SOURCE: VIRGINIA JORDAN SPECIAL TO THE ROANOKE TIMES
All the spring flowers that have been growing under the watchful care of the Virginia Tech Horticultural Club will be for sale today and Sunday at the Washington Street greenhouses on the Virginia Tech campus.
The sale will run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Among the flowers for sale will be hanging baskets, overflowing with cascade geraniums and fuchsias. Perennials will include hostas, shasta daisies, coneflowers such as rudbeckia - black-eyed Susan - and the cardinal flower.
An unusually pretty geranium is named the Ben Franklin, with deep pink flowers and leaves marked with white. Other annuals are begonias, double impatiens and Supertunias, which will spread and thrive profusely.
If you like herbs, those offered will include tarragon, oregano, lavender, thyme and others, which have been grown in a pesticide-free greenhouse.
Pinch the leaves of a lemon thyme for spring fragrance. Two new offerings this year are the lisianthus, which blooms blue, and the trailing helichrysum, which is silvery.
Sale proceeds are used for the club's service projects.
LENGTH: Short : 36 lines ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO: LORA GORDON. Virginia Tech student Ken Wells picks offby CNBblooms from a group of New Guinea Impatiens as he and other members
of the Virginia Tech Horticulture Club get ready for the sale.
color.