Hello Gardening Friends:
You didn’t think I was going to pass up the 20th year did you? No way! Just didn’t feel comfortable having it in the Spring with a pandemic lockdown happening, but I think we’ve learned a lot and can do something safely in the Fall, September 18 – 19 to be exact.
For those who don’t know, this is a sale I hold in my back yard each year. The plants are donated by interested people like you and mostly come from our own gardens. Proceeds from the sale benefit The Nature Conservancy in Virginia. I will begin collecting plants the weekend or so before the sale and up to the sale.
The dates this year will be: Friday, September 18, from 4:00 pm – dark AND Saturday, September 19, from 9am – 1pm. The location is my backyard at 203 Howard Street in Ashland.
The preview for donors only will be from 3:00-4:00 pm on Friday September 18 — masks will be required and social distancing in place. Depending on the guidelines at that time, we may need to have a limit to the numbers in the yard at any one moment. At the preview, donors may purchase up to the number of plants donated by that person. 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. Hang around until 4:00 and the sale is open to everyone for unlimited purchases!
Saturday at 1:20, all leftover plants are given to any plant donor in any quantity. This part of the event has become very popular to the donors and there are always lots of great plants available.
If you have plants to donate, you can leave them on my front porch any time during the week or so before the sale (please leave your name so I know who donated what). If you can label them with their plant names or leave me a list, that’s great. No invasive alien plants will be sold (see invasive species list https://tinyurl.com/y38hta49 – it may surprise you!) and we LOVE to see Virginia native plants at the sale.
I hope to see you at the sale. You can find (and Like) a facebook page called “Annual Backyard Plant Sale” to get more frequent updates, photos, and other gardening tidbits.
Thank you!
Julie Ericksen