The Backyard Plant Sale

Hello Gardening Friends:

You didn’t think I was going to pass up the 20^th 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

Yes, the Plant Sale is happening starting tomorrow,
Friday May 2 at 4:00pm to dark! And Saturday, 9am-1pm!

Here’s the short plant list – there’s more – I’ll try to add more to tomorrow…
UPDATED 8:30am 
UPDATED 11:30
UPDATED 12:30
UPDATED 1:30

2019 Plant List

BOOKS IN GARAGE!
2 compost barrels
1 rain barrel 

Bulbs and Tubers:
Amaryllis
Daffodils
Iris sibirica – Siberian iris
Iris Cristata
Daylily
Blackberry Lily

Shrubs:
Beautyberry
Clethra “Hummingbird”
Carolina Allspice, Sweetshrub, Calycanthus floridus
Forsythia(1)
Kerria (1)
Mahonia
Nandina
Oak Leaf Hydrangea
Peonies
Poets Laurel
Pussy Willow
Rosa Rugosa
Rose of Sharon

Trees:
Banana trees (hardy, no fruit) 2
Nanking Cherry
Dogwood (3-4 small)
Hazelnut – Native (Corylus americana)
Japanese Maple
Magnolia Grandiflora
Oak (seedling)

Shade plants (or partial sun):
Ajuga
Hardy Begonia
Cardinal Flower
Columbine (red native and purple)
cream violet
Cutleaf Coneflower – Native (Rudbeckia laciniata)
Daylilies (common)
Daylilies, fancy, unlabeled
Ginger
Green-and-gold
Green Dragon (Arisaema draconitum)
Hellebores
Euphorbia
Japanese Painted Fern
other fern
Goldenrod
Helleborus (foetidus and orientalis)
Hosta
Siberian Iris (white and purple)
Lamium
Lily of the Valley – pink and white
Lysimachia (purple)
Monarda – Bee Balm
Mountain Mint – Native (Pycnanthemum muticum)
Persicaria
Primula
Primrose, red with yellow center
Variegated Solomon’s Seal
swamp sunflower (Helianthus angustifolius)
Spiderwort – Tradascantia
Spurge
White Wood Aster
Woodland Poppy

Sun plants:
Amsonia
Canada anemone
Artemesia, spreading, yellow flowers
Aster (Tartarian, Tall White, fragrant)
American bellflower
Rudbeckia
Chrysanthemum – ‘Sheffield Pink’ and yellow
Clematis
Shasta Daisy
Echinacea – Purple coneflower
Equisetum (likes water)
Golden hops (vine)
Horsetail (1)
Iris
Iris Cristata
Jerusalem Artichoke
Korean Bell Flower (1)
Lamb’s ear ‘Big Ears’.  Special variety. Huge ears, no flowers
Lamb’s Ear (common)
Lamium
Liatrus (native)
Daylilies
Lychnis – Rose Campion – Mullein Pink
Obedient Plant
Milkweed
Pussy Toes – Native (Antennaria neglecta?)
Rose Campion – Lychnis
Red Hot Poker
Native Salvia ground cover
Sea Oats – chasmanthium latifolum
Sedum (upright, Autumn Joy)
steeplebush
Stokesia
Sundrops
Oxeye Sunflower – Native (Heliopsis helianthoides)
blue vervain
Winter Jasmine
Yarrow

Herbs, Fruits and Veggies (grow in full sun):
Echinacea – Purple Coneflower
Egyptian Walking Onion (1)
Elephant Garlic
Mountain Mint
other mint
Monarda — Bee Balm
Oregano
lyre-leaf sage
Thyme
Tomatoes – heirloom varieties (Nancy Hugo)
Yarrow

Grasses:
Sea Oats
liriope

House Plants:
Cactus
Clivia
Norfolk Pine

surely incomplete and more things will be coming in not listed.

Bulbs and Tubers:
Iris sibirica – Siberian iris
Iris Cristata
Daylily
Blackberry Lily
Hardy Orchid – Bletilla Nigra

Shrubs:
Azalea, white, pink
Beautyberry
Clethra “Hummingbird” (1)
Coralberry – native shrub, great for wildlife
Carolina Allspice, Sweetshrub, Calycanthus floridus
Nanking Cherry
Elderberry
Forsythia
Hydrangea, unknown variety
Variegated Kerria (1)
Mahonia
Nandina
Pearl Bush
Rose of Sharon

Trees:
Banana Trees
Cedar seedling
1 Wild Cherry
Dogwood (native 1)
1 Elm
Magnolia seedlings (1)
Japanese Maple (1)

Shade plants (or partial sun):
Ajuga
Arum Italicum
Bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis)
Columbine (red native and pink 2)
Daylily (lemon yellow)
Hellebores
Euphorbia
Japanese Painted Fern
Ostrich Fern 
Sensitive Fern
Goldenrod
Helleborus (foetidus and orientalis)
Hosta
Siberian Iris
Lily of the Valley – pink and white
Lunaria(money plant)
Lysimachia (purple)
Monarda – Bee Balm
Persicaria (Tovara Virginiana – 2 kinds)
Primula
Primrose, red with yellow center
Variegated Solomon’s Seal (lots!)
Baby Solomon’s Seal
Spiderwort – Tradascantia
Spurge
White Wood Aster
Woodland Poppy

Sun plants:
Hardy Ageratum
Golden Alexanders
Amsonia
Pink Anemone (1 little)
Artemisia – 3 kinds
Blue Wood Aster
Tartarian Aster
Rudbeckia 3 varieties (Black-Eyed Susans, Brown-Eyed Susans, Cutleaf Rudbeckia)
Chrysanthemum – ‘Sheffield Pink’ and yellow
Coreopsis
Cup Plant
Echinacea – Purple coneflower
Echinops – globe thistle (purple)
Golden hops (vine)
Helianthus helianthoides and divaricata
Horsetail
Iris
Iris Cristata
Jerusalem Artichoke
Korean Bell Flower
Liatrus (native)
Pussytoes – native ground cover, unique flowers
Lamb’s ear ‘Big Ears’.  Special variety. Huge ears, no flowers
Lamb’s Ear (common)
Daylilies
Prairie Loosestrife
Lychnis – Rose Campion – Mullein Pink
Milkweed
Golden Ragwort
Red Hot Poker
Rose Campion – Lychnis
Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’
Native Salvia ground cover
Sea Oats – chasmanthium latifolum
Sedum Ground Covers
Sedum (upright, Autumn Joy)
Stokesia
Sun Drops
Winter Jasmine
Yarrow

Herbs, Fruits and Veggies (grow in full sun):
Blueberry
Cultivated Thornless Blackberry
Evergreen Comfrey
Echinacea – Purple Coneflower
Egyptian Walking Onion (1 small)
Elephant Garlic
Garlic Chives
Lemon Balm
Mountain Mint
other mint
Monarda — Bee Balm
Oregano
Black Cap Raspberry
Thyme
Tomatoes
Yarrow

Grasses:
Ribbon Grass
Sea Oats

Other:
Aloe
Begonia (not hardy)
Jade Plant
Spider Plant

Hello Gardening Friends:

Spring is here! And with it, the annual announcement of the Annual Backyard Plant Sale.

I’m Deborah Barber, Julie’s friend from Arlington.  I come down each year to help with the plant sale because I LOVE to spend a spring day in a beautiful place talking with people about plants! This sale is held in Julie’s back yard, and the plants are donated by people like you and me, mostly from our own gardens. Proceeds from the sale benefit The Nature Conservancy in Virginia.

The dates this year will be:

Friday, May 4th from 4:00 pm – dark     …and…    

Saturday, May 5th from 9am – 1pm

The location is Julie’s backyard at 203 Howard Street in Ashland.

Friday from 3:00-4:00 pm is the preview for donors. At this time, donors may purchase up to the number of plants that they have donated. So the more plants you donate, the more purchasing power you have. Please note this is not a swap but a sale to raise money for a good cause.  At  4:00 pm the sale is open to everyone for unlimited purchases.

Saturday at 1:00, the sale will be closed and there will be an educational talk given in front of the house. Saturday at 1:20, all leftover plants are given to any plant donor in any quantity. This part of the event is popular with the donors and there are always lots of great plants available.

If you have plants to donate, you can leave them on the front porch any time during the week before the sale (please leave your name so we know who donated what). If you can label them with their plant names or leave a list, that’s great. No invasive alien plants will be sold (see the Virginia invasive species list – it may surprise you!)  Also, we LOVE to see Virginia native plants at the sale.

For more frequent updates, Like the Annual Backyard Plant Sale page on Facebook. 

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you in May!

Deborah Barber

2017 Plant List

Bulbs and Tubers:
Canna
? Elephant Ears
Iris sibirica – Siberian iris (purple, yellow)
Iris Cristata
Daylily – double yellow and single pink
Blackberry Lily
Hardy Orchid – Bletilla Nigra (lots!)

Shrubs:
Flowering Almond (full size)
Beautyberry
Crimson Pygmy barberries
Butterfly bush (12)
Calycanthus – Sweetshrub
Camelia Seedlings
Lespedeza – purple
x White Lilac (1)
Liriope (white, green, variegated)
Mahonia
Nandina
Pearl Bush
Poet’s laurel (tiny)
Rosa Rugosa
x Rose – Cladwell Pink (1)
new Rose – Ladies Elsie May
Rose of Sharon
Flowering almond – full size

Trees:
Banana Trees
Dogwood Seedlings (native and yellow twig seedlings)
Hickory Tree seedling (1)
Magnolia seedlings (2)
Persimmon Tree seedlings (2nd yr) (2)
Tulip Poplar seedling
Willow Oak seedlings (4)

Shade plants (or partial sun):
Arum Italicum
x Astilbe (lavender)
x Strawberry Begonia
Columbine (red native and purple/white)
Daylilies
Euphorbia (3 varieties, maybe 4 var.)
Japanese Painted Fern
x Ostrich Fern
Sensitive Fern
x Hardy Geranium, purple flowers
Green and Gold
Houttynia Cordata ‘Chameleon’
Goldenrod
Green Dragon
Helleborus (foetidus and orientalis)
Hosta
Siberian Iris (yellow)
Liriope (green, white, variegated)
Lily of the Valley – pink and white
Lunaria (money plant)
Monarda – Bee Balm
Oenethera – pink primrose (1)
Persicaria (2 kinds)
Primula – yellow
Variegated Solomon’s Seal (lots!)
x Baby Solomon’s Seal
Spiderwort – Tradascantia
White Wood Aster
x Woodland Poppy

Sun plants:
x 12 Apostles plant
Hardy Ageratum
Amsonia
NEW Pink Anemone (1)
Artemisia – 3 kinds (oriental limelight and 2 silver varieties)
Rudbeckia 3 varieties (Black-Eyed Susans, Brown-Eyed Susans, Cutleaf Rudbeckia)
x Cardinal Flower
x Catmint (Nepeta – 1)
Chinese Lantern
Chrysanthemum – ‘Sheffield Pink’ and yellow
Columbine (native and purple/white)
Coreopsis seedlings
Cup Plant
Dahlia seedlings
Montauk Daisy (1)
Echinacea – Purple coneflower
x Echinops – globe thistle (purple)
Firethorn
Golden hops (vine)
Helianthus
non- invasive honeysuckle
Iris
Iris Cristata
Roof iris
Jerusalem artichoke
NEW Joe Pye (1)
Korean Bellflower
Lamb’s Ear
Lilies, Asiatic
Daylilies
Winter Jasmine
Lychnis – Rose Campion – Mullein Pink
Penstemon – red
Milkweed (2 kinds)
Obedient Plant
Pond plants (1 pot of a few)
Red Hot Poker
Rosa Rugosa
Rose Campion – Lychnis
Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’
Native Salvia ground cover
Sea Oats – chasmanthium latifolum
Sedum Ground Covers
Sedum (upright)
Snap Dragon seedlings
Stokesia
NEW Sweet Flag
x Sun Drops
Yarrow
Yucca

Herbs, Fruits and Veggies (grow in full sun):
Cultivated Thornless Blackberry
Evergreen Comfrey
Echinacea – Purple Coneflower
Egyptian Walking Onion (1 small)
Jerusalem Artichoke (1)
Mountain Mint
Monarda — Bee Balm
Thyme
Tomatoes
Yarrow

Grasses:
Liriope (white, green, variegated)
NEW Red-tipped grass
Sea Oats
Switch grass

Plant sale begins Friday, May 5 at 4pm, see details in previous post. If you would like to be a plant donor, you can drop off plants all week on my front porch. I will be home all day Thursday and Friday getting ready. 🙂

Hello Gardening Friends:

Spring is well underway! Here’s my annual email announcement of the Annual Backyard Plant Sale.

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 before the sale and up to the sale.

The dates this year will be:

Friday, May 5th from 4:00 pm – dark     and    

Saturday, May 6th from 9am – 1pm

The location is my backyard at 203 Howard Street in Ashland.

The preview for donors will be in the new format from 3:00-4:00 pm on Friday. At this time, 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 1:00, the sale will be closed and there will be a relevant educational talk given in front of my house. 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 attached invasive species list: http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural-heritage/document/nh-invasive-plant-list-2014.pdf – it may surprise you!) and we LOVE to see Virginia native plants at the sale.

You can find (and Like) a facebook page called “Annual Backyard Plant Sale”.

NOTE: I am currently having trouble accessing my facebook page so if I don’t respond, that is why. I hope to get this rectified but it’s hard to talk to anyone at facebook!

Thank you!

Julie Ericksen

Hello Folks!

I don’t know about you but I’m getting excited for the Annual Backyard Plant Sale which is happening the last two days of April (April 29 4pm to dark and April 30 9am-1pm). This weekend I hope to be a busy bee in preparation. If you have any plants, that would be a great time to drop them off — just leave them on my front porch.

By the way, I got two truckloads of tulips from Lewis Ginter which I will be giving away! If they come up next year you are welcome to make a donation then.

Please email me at jbericksen2013@gmail.com with any questions. 🙂

julie

Hello Gardening Friends:

Despite a snowy day and freezing temps I’m thinking about all that is stirring underneath. I’m taking advantage of this snow day to get the information out to you about this year’s Backyard Plant Sale.

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 (though usually Lewis Ginter supplies a nice selection of bulbs and other plants). Proceeds from the sale benefit The Nature Conservancy in Virginia. I will begin collecting plants the weekend before the sale and up to the sale.

The dates this year will be:   Friday, April 29 from 4:00 pm – dark     and      Saturday, April 30 from 9am – 1pm

The location is my backyard at 203 Howard Street in Ashland.

The preview for donors will be in the new format of last year from 3:00-4:00 pm on Friday. At this time, 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 1:00, the sale will be closed and there will be a relevant educational talk given in front of my house. 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 attached invasive species list: http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/documents/nh-invasive-plant-list-2014.pdf – it may surprise you!) and we LOVE to see Virginia native plants at the sale.

I hope to see you at the sale. The plant sale has also has a facebook page called “Annual Backyard Plant Sale”.

Thank you!

Julie Ericksen

Bulbs and Tubers:
Crocosmia
Iris sibirica – Siberian iris
Iris Cristata – white and purple
Daylily
Blackberry Lily
Tiger Lily

Shrubs:

Beautyberry – Callicarpa Dichotoma
Calycanthus – Sweetshrub
Forsythia
Hydrangea ‘Oak Leaf’
Hydrangea ‘Annabelle’
Hydrangea – other
Lespedeza – purple
Lilac (1 small)
Loropetulum
Mahonia
Nandina
Poet’s laurel (tiny)
Rose of Sharon (1)
Rosa Rugosa
Winter jasmine

Trees:
Cedar (1 small)
Red cherry (?)
Japanese maple seedlings
Tulip Poplar (small)
Redbud (small)

Shade plants (or partial sun):
Alstromeria
Arum Italicum
Strawberry Begonia
Bleeding Heart (2 small)
Campanula Sarastro
Cardinal Flower
Columbine (VA native)
Dutchman’s Breeches (1)
Japanese Painted Fern
Sensitive Fern (native)
Sweet Flag – Acorus
Daylilies
Goldenrod
Green Dragon
Helleborus (foetidus and orientalis)
Hosta
Siberian Iris
Liriope
Lily of the Valley
Lunaria (money plant)
Mayapple (1)
Monarda – Bee Balm
Persicaria
Primula – Grandma’s yellow, red w/ yellow
Variegated Solomon’s Seal
Baby Solomon’s Seal
Spiderwort – Tradescantia
Sweet Woodruff
Virginia Bluebells (VA native)
Woodland Poppy

Sun plants:
Hardy Ageratum
Artemisia
Aster Graydon’s favorite
Tartarian Aster
Korean Bellflower — Campanula
Black-Eyed Susans (VA native)
Brown-Eyed Susans (VA native)
Candytuft – Iberis
Chinese Lantern
Chrysanthemum – ‘Sheffield Pink’
Golden coreopsis
Crocosmia
Echinacea – Purple coneflower
Echinops – globe thistle (purple)
Iris
Iris Cristata (native)
Jerusalem artichoke
Lamb’s ear (Stachys lanata)
Lilies, Asiatic
Daylilies
Tiger Lily
Yellow loosestrife
Lychnis – Rose Campion – Mullein Pink
Milkweed
Obedient Plant (pink)
Hardy Orchid – Bletilla Striata
Pachysandra
Peonies
Rosa Rugosa
Rose Campion – Lychnis
Salvia (Black and Blue)
Sedum
Sea Oats – chasmanthium latifolum (VA native)
Sedum upright
Sedum Ground Covers
Stokesia
Swamp sunflower
Blue Vervain

Herbs, Fruits and Veggies (grow in full sun):
Chives
Evergreen Comfrey
Echinacea – Purple Coneflower
Egyptian Walking Onion
Elephant Garlic
Feverfew
Garlic Chives
Hypericum golden
Jerusalem Artichoke
Lemon Balm
Chocolate Mint
Mint
Mountain Mint
Monarda — Bee Balm (VA native)
Cuban Oregano
Parsley
Red Raspberries
Rue
Strawberries
Sweet Woodruff
Thyme

Grasses:
Sweet flag – Acorus
Liriope
Variegated Ribbon Grass
unknown variety