HYDE PARK — The Hyde Park Garden Fair kicked off Friday morning with the blow of a whistle.
The 57th annual Hyde Park Garden Fair started at 9 a.m. on Friday as the two-day sale launches in the way it always does.
Gardeners line-up, sometimes in a a block-long row outside the Hyde Park Shopping Center at 55th Street and Lake Park Avenue waiting for garden fair committee chair Lesley Bloch to blow the whistle and cut the ribbon opening the sale.
“When the garden fair comes you know it’s spring and everyone comes out from under their rocks,” Bloch said.
She said all of the plants are individually selected from a long list of nurseries that volunteers travel to mark out the best plants to bring in for the sale.
The fair continues on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The garden fair is one of the best opportunities to get vegetables and herbs for the garden.
Volunteers scour a long list of nurseries for the best plants to bring to the garden fair.
The Hyde Park Garden Fair is the largest weekend plant sale along the south lakefront.
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