Showing posts with label plant sale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plant sale. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

A Tale of Two Sales

So, I checked out two local fall plant sales last weekend. On Saturday, I headed over to Magnuson Park (well known for sponsoring those immense Seattle Public Library book sales) and sought out the Native Bulb, Seed and Plant Sale, sponsored by the Washington Native Plant Society. The sale only filled one of the smaller parts of the main hangar and was a bit underwhelming. There was a bunch of shrubs and trees, one table with a decent collection of books, and another table with seeds. Interestingly, there seemed to be just as many orange vest volunteers on-site as there were actually customers.
On Sunday, I drove over to the Center for Urban Horticulture (near the UW playfields) and checked out the Hardy Plant Society of Washington's first annual Fall Bulb Sale. They had one row of tables outside with live plants, while the entirety of the inside area comprised dozens of boxes of bulbs and seeds. I ended up snagging a particularly attractive Cyclamen Cilicium, as well as a unique looking Cilla bulb, and some tulip bulbs.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Arboretum Foundation Plant Sale

I discovered the Arboretum Foundation's annual Spring Plant Sale last weekend. It's housed over at Magnuson Park in the same spot as the semi-regular Friends of the Library book sales. The plant sale was assuredly the largest one in the area, and (as the pics show) featured dozens of independent dealers and thousands of plants. I showed up on the first day (Saturday) with about five minutes to spare and was positioned behind the first couple of hundred folks. I only had one plant on my list: Dicentra 'Burning Hearts'. Fortunately, I found the only dealer on the site with the plant and managed to grab the last one. Mission accomplished!