CASS COUNTY — Spring is right around the corner and to celebrate the Cass County Conservation District is offering residents the chance to order some additions to their landscapes.

The Cass County Conservation District is hosting its annual tree and plant sale. Officials are taking orders now through April 3 with pick-up at the Cassopolis Cass County Council on Aging from 3:30 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 16, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  Friday, April 17 and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 1. Delivery is available for an extra fee.  Orders will be filled on a first come-first serve basis, and supplies may be limited.

“There is something for everyone including native small deciduous trees, shrubs and plants which enhance edges of existing woodlands and grasslands by providing food and cover for our woodland friends, including spicebush, white flowering dogwood, arrowwood viburnum, joepye, butterfly milkweed and many others,” said Patty Dohm.

Conifers, which are evergreens, are well-suited to use in windbreaks. Available conifers through the sale include balsam fir, concolor fir, eastern white pine, norway spruce, red cedar and red pine. The sale also has deciduous or broadleaf trees. 

“The varieties for sale are good replacements for the ash trees that were decimated by the emerald ash borer and include yellow birch, sugar maple, red maple, shingle oak, white oak, sycamore or American planetree, black walnut, and they even have Paw Paw trees,” Dohm said. “For those of you always wanting to try your hand at raising fruit, you haven’t been forgotten!  auvil early fuji, red cameo, honeycrisp, and yellow newton apple trees, along with manchurian crabapple, blackgold cherry, Montmorency tart cherry, stella cherry, Italian prune, Canadian harmony peach, redhaven peach and bartlett pear round out the fruit tree offerings.  They even have some edible fruit plants listed, Jeanne gooseberry, nova raspberry and American black elderberry.”

For more information, visit cassccdistrict.org or call (269) 445-8641, ext. 5.