Plant sales
[Your county plant sale]
Each year, our Extension Master Gardeners put in thousands of volunteer hours to pull together a Plant Sale. The goal is to give you a good selection of high-quality plants at reasonable prices. The plant sale is managed by our foundation and is the most significant fundraiser of the year. Proceeds are plowed back into our educational outreach programs to reach more people in the community.
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A “Pop-up Nursery”
The annual Master Gardener Plant Sale is a major undertaking by our volunteers. One of our Foundation’s key funding activities, it takes about eight months efforts to produce a plant sale that meets our standards. And yours. Read on for just a quick overview of the effort involved.
Time & place
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Broad plant selection, locally grown
Our plant sale is the product of many volunteer master gardeners, pulling together for several months in order to host a “Pop-up Nursery” one weekend per year.
The process begins in the summer and fall with master gardeners starting or dividing native plants and perennials at home. Shortly after the new year, our volunteers are back at it, starting veggies from seed and timing our plantings so they will be the right size when the time for planting comes.
When we cannot grow it ourselves, we source plants from local nurseries to fill out our selection.
Highlighted plants:
Tomatoes
Native Plants
Fuscias
Begonias
House Plants
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Pulling it all together
As we head into spring, Master Gardeners begin the process of assembling a “Pop-up Nursery” for just one weekend. This requires dozens of volunteers spending thousands of hours in training and set-up. Everything from building out and training on our cash registers, hauling and setting up displays, signage, parking assistance and much more. Master Gardener veterans train the interns so that the plant sale can carry on smoothly across the years.
The Team
Greenhouse grown
Set-up
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