The community perennial garden layout at the museum is just in front of the Hill School Bell facing Maple Road
Calling all gardeners! Trade your perennial plants and divisions at the Birmingham Museum’s Heritage Plant Exchange June 4!
The Birmingham Museum has been working toward improving public access to the Allen House grounds in the past year with the goal to reconstruct the character of the Allens’ original gardens from 1926. The spring 2022 phase involves planting the main garden bed with heritage perennial flowers, many of which are still available today and found in local gardens. And, because spring is the time for dividing and thinning perennials, the Museum Board has planned a fun event to invite the public to get in on the perennial garden project--our first ever community Heritage Plant Exchange at the Birmingham Museum at 556 W. Maple Road.
Leave a Plant, Take a Plant
From 10 AM to 2 PM on Saturday, June 4, the public is invited to bring a healthy plant (or two) to trade with others and/or place in the Allen House perennial garden. There is no charge for the exchange—leave a plant, take a plant. Get something new for your garden, and meet fellow green thumbers! (Museum Board member and master gardener Jay Shell will be on hand to answer gardening questions, and the museum will be open for visitors (regular admission applies) during the event.
All plants must be labeled; blank labels will be available on site (or download a label here)
Bring any Plant for the Exchange, or pick from this list to donate one to the Museum's Community Heritage Perennial Garden
You can bring any plant with you to exchange with other gardeners, but in order to go into our heritage garden, the plants must be on this list, specified by our historic landscape architect:
(2) -Aster amellus/ Michaelmas Daisy
(2) -Acontinum napellus/ Monkshood
(2) -Anemone tomentosum/windflower
(1) -Delphinium elatum/bee larkspur
(2) -Hemerocallis lilioasphedelus (flava)/ Lemon Daylily
(3) -Iris sibirica/ Siberian Iris
(1) -Liatris spicata/ Blazing star
(2) -Anemone sylvestris/ Windflower
(2) -Dicentra spectabilis/ Common Bleeding heart
(1) -Heuchera sanguina/ Coralbells
(1) -Phlox paniculata/ Garden Phlox
(3) -Arabis caucasica/ rock cress
(2) -Coreopsis lanceolata/ Lance coreopsis
(2) -Dianthus plumaris/ Cottage pink
(2) -Iberis sempervirens/ Evergreen Candyfruit
(2) -Phlox subulata/ Moss Phlox
(2) -Ranunculus repens/ Creeping Buttercup-(removed from list due to modern invasive potential)
The community perennial garden layout at the museum is just in front of the Hill School Bell facing Maple Road
Calling all gardeners! Trade your perennial plants and divisions at the Birmingham Museum’s Heritage Plant Exchange June 4!
The Birmingham Museum has been working toward improving public access to the Allen House grounds in the past year with the goal to reconstruct the character of the Allens’ original gardens from 1926. The spring 2022 phase involves planting the main garden bed with heritage perennial flowers, many of which are still available today and found in local gardens. And, because spring is the time for dividing and thinning perennials, the Museum Board has planned a fun event to invite the public to get in on the perennial garden project--our first ever community Heritage Plant Exchange at the Birmingham Museum at 556 W. Maple Road.
Leave a Plant, Take a Plant
From 10 AM to 2 PM on Saturday, June 4, the public is invited to bring a healthy plant (or two) to trade with others and/or place in the Allen House perennial garden. There is no charge for the exchange—leave a plant, take a plant. Get something new for your garden, and meet fellow green thumbers! (Museum Board member and master gardener Jay Shell will be on hand to answer gardening questions, and the museum will be open for visitors (regular admission applies) during the event.
All plants must be labeled; blank labels will be available on site (or download a label here)
Bring any Plant for the Exchange, or pick from this list to donate one to the Museum's Community Heritage Perennial Garden
You can bring any plant with you to exchange with other gardeners, but in order to go into our heritage garden, the plants must be on this list, specified by our historic landscape architect:
(2) -Aster amellus/ Michaelmas Daisy
(2) -Acontinum napellus/ Monkshood
(2) -Anemone tomentosum/windflower
(1) -Delphinium elatum/bee larkspur
(2) -Hemerocallis lilioasphedelus (flava)/ Lemon Daylily
(3) -Iris sibirica/ Siberian Iris
(1) -Liatris spicata/ Blazing star
(2) -Anemone sylvestris/ Windflower
(2) -Dicentra spectabilis/ Common Bleeding heart
(1) -Heuchera sanguina/ Coralbells
(1) -Phlox paniculata/ Garden Phlox
(3) -Arabis caucasica/ rock cress
(2) -Coreopsis lanceolata/ Lance coreopsis
(2) -Dianthus plumaris/ Cottage pink
(2) -Iberis sempervirens/ Evergreen Candyfruit
(2) -Phlox subulata/ Moss Phlox
(2) -Ranunculus repens/ Creeping Buttercup-(removed from list due to modern invasive potential)
