Hello Gardening Friends!
With warm temps, life is busting out, which naturally gets us out in the garden to search for all of the purchases from last year’s Annual Backyard Plant Sale! Hopefully everything made it… Or perhaps you are planning what you will donate to the sale this year??
For you uninitiates to the ABPS, this is a sale I hold in my back yard each year. The plants are donated by interested people like you and come from our own gardens. 100% of the proceeds benefit The Nature Conservancy in Virginia. I will begin collecting plants the weekend or so before the sale.
The dates this year will be: Friday, May 5, 2023 from 4:00 PM to dark and Saturday, May 6, from 9 AM to 1 PM. Location is my backyard at 203 Howard St. in Ashland, VA 23005.
The preview for donors only will be from 3 to 4 PM on Friday, May 5. At the preview, donors may purchase up to the number of plants donated by that person. 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 o’clock and the sale is open to everyone for unlimited purchases!
Saturday at 1:00 PM there will be a short, relevant talk, and at about 1:20 PM, all leftover plants are given to any plant donor in any quantity. This part of the event is popular to the plant donors and there are always lots of great plants available.
If you have plants to donate, you can leave them on my front porch anytime during the week or so before the sale. (please leave your name so I know who donated what). If you have time to label them with their plant names, or just leave me a list, that’s great. If not, no worries. No invasive alien plants From the Virginia Invasive Species List will be sold (https://tinyurl.com/57rmnk6w) and we love to see Virginia native plants at the sale!
I hope to see YOU at the sale.
Julie
PS: The plant sale has a facebook page where I tend to post more than on this website: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064649655648