Hello Gardening Friends!
Things are happening in the yard and it’s time to start talking plants! As you begin to prepare your gardens for the Spring I hope you will be thinking of the Annual Backyard Plant Sale. What do you need?? What can you share?? All for a great cause.
If you are just hearing about 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 come from our own gardens. 100% of the proceeds benefit The Nature Conservancy in Virginia. I will begin collecting plants starting a week or so before the sale.
The dates this year will be: Friday, May 2, 2025 from 4:00 PM to dark and Saturday, May 3, from 9 AM to 12:30 PM. (Notice I am ending slightly earlier this year so I can attend a funeral that day.) The location is my backyard at 203 Howard St. in Ashland, VA 23005.
The preview for plant donors only will be from 3 to 4 PM on Friday, May 2. At the preview, plant 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 12:30 PM there will be a short, relevant talk, and at about 12:50 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 100s of great plants left over.
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: If you sign up for email updates on this page, I will post a plant list the night before the sale and you will get notified. The plant sale also has a facebook page where I tend to post more than on this website: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064649655648