British Columbia: Plant Sale - New Westminster, BC - May 2, 2010

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    New Westminster Horticultural Society – ANNUAL PLANT SALE
    Sunday, May 2, 2010 10 am to 4 pm

    *** NEW LOCATION ***
    In the Armoury at Queen’s Ave & 6th St. New Westminster
    Park next door in the City Hall lot
    www.newwesthortsociety.org

    Our selection includes both ever-popular and unusual plants.
    • Perennials: divisions from our gardens plus grown from seed and over-wintered.
    • Annuals: from cuttings and seeds. The selection includes many not often seen in garden centres and non-hardy perennials such as canna and succulents. Gorgeous hanging baskets.
    • Edibles: a huge variety of tomatoes, plus eggplants, peppers, herbs, lettuce, and everbearing strawberries .
    • Trees and shrubs including over 60 floribunda roses.

    Why is our sale special?
    • Quality control: With our sale, we have a central potting site to which members drop off clumps of plants or seedlings. Other members divide and pot the plants into fresh soil. Each plant is inspected for unwanted guests such as chafers and invasive weeds. This year we started the potting during those balmy days of January and continued until April 11th thus giving each plant a minimum of 3 weeks to thrive. Those which do not thrive are culled. In the weeks just prior to the sale, each plant is individually inspected again and groomed and priced. Culling will continue right up to the time the plants are shipped to the Armoury.
    • Plant identification: We are renowned for our plant tags. Each plant is identified as to name (Latin name, if known), growing conditions and size and special features which make that plant special.
    • Planning: A big sale like ours takes a year to plan. Our experienced committee refines the sale every year. But it is the members of the garden club who really make the sale possible. It involves 80% of our 200+ membership. We are a pretty enthusiastic group.
     

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