Plant sale

 White dicentra (bleeding heart) will be among the perennials for sale on Saturday. Flowers, above, and gallon-size container, below.

Alden Township kicks off its farmers market this Saturday and we'll be there with a selection of perennials freshly dug from sillydoggarden. The market is in its second year at the town hall on Laine Road. 

Open from 10 a.m. to noon the first Saturday of each month through the growing season, it's a casual operation and hard to predict exactly who or what will be there -- but that's part of the charm. 

This Saturday you can count on white bleeding heart along with some catmint, shasta daisies, euphorbia and sedum. Hmmm ... maybe some phlox and some penstemon, too ...