What and When:

Hi Folks. Welcome to the backyard plant sale blog! The main purpose of this blog is to tell you about the plant sale I hold in my backyard in Ashland, VA each year. And I throw in some other stuff too.

The plants at the sale are donated by interested people like you and come from our own gardens. Last year, we had over 1600 plants donated and, additionally, over 2400 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.

The dates this year will be (rain or shine — if it’s thundering we wait it out on the porch):

Friday, April 30th from 4:00 pm – dark

Saturday, May 1st from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

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

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. And it’s a whole lot of fun too! I hope to see you there.

Julie Ericksen