Category: Plant Sale

The Plant Sale began in earnest Monday morning by putting shelving together and hanging lights before the “stars of the show’ (3,700 plants) arrived. The afternoon was spent organizing and tagging the plants for sale. We had fun. A very exciting start to a great Plant Sale!

Thanks to Heather Emelander for these nice pictures of the activities.

Among the many beautiful plants at this year’s plant sale, we are offering these beautiful vines and climbers.

Clematis Henryi

‘Henryi’ features profuse, showy, eight-sepaled, 6-8″ in diameter, white flowers with purplish brown anthers that cover this vine in summer. Bloom on this cultivar comes primarily from the previous year’s stems in early summer, but also occurs in a second flush later in the summer on the new (current year’s) growth.

This year at the Annual Plant Sale Under the Tent the Friends will be selling Landscape Plugs. 

Here are some of the benefits of using them instead of a larger container plants:

• Plants reach flowering size in their first season and have a high transplant success rate.
• Reduced labor costs for installation
• Compact size is easy to transport with reduced handling costs
• Reduced waste on the job site
• Root channels, tapered cells and drainage holes direct roots to one point for air pruning, resulting in dramatically reduced root circling.
• Reduced growing medium creates optimal root density for quicker establishment in native soil
• Easy to plant under existing trees with minimal root disturbance.
• Easier to fill in gaps in existing plantings.
• Economical option for large green infrastructure and stormwater management projects.

Below are the selections you’ll be able to choose from:

Detailed descriptions and photos may be found here.

Landscape Plugs at the Plant Sale

So many plants and so little time! Here’s the link to the list on Google Sheets.

Once again, we couldn’t restrain ourselves and have ordered over 400 different plant varieties so far for the upcoming sale.