Hello Gardening Friends:
This Rainy Day at the end of winter seems like a perfect time to announce the 11th Annual Backyard Plant Sale. Daily we are seeing signs of new life and the rain will provide all of our gardens a nice soaking.
For those of you who don’t know about “The Backyard Plant Sale”, I hold a plant sale in my back yard each year. The plants are donated by interested people like you and come from our own gardens. Last year, we had about 1600 plants donated and, additionally, about 3000 daffodil bulbs were donated by Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Proceeds from the sale benefit The Nature Conservancy’s Chesapeake Rivers Program specifically for land acquisitions in our area. http://tinyurl.com/4gh97cj
The dates this year will be:
Friday, April 29th from 4:00 pm – dark
Saturday, April 30th from 9am – 1pm
The location is my back yard at 203 Howard Street in Ashland.
For those who donate plants, there are the excellent perks! There will be a preview sale for donors on Thursday, April 28th from 4-dark. On this day, only donors may purchase up to the number of plants donated by that person. Some items actually sell out on this day. So the more plants you donate, the more purchasing power you have. I hope you will note this is not a swap but a sale to raise money for a good cause.
Saturday at 1:30, all leftover plants are given to any plant donor in any quantity. This part of the sale has become very popular to the donors. Those who are not plant donors can still purchase plants at this time until they are gone.
For those of you who love to garden, this is a wonderful way of making a donation to an organization that preserves land in our area.
Thank you very much.
Julie Ericksen