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Greater Seattle Area Plant Sales in Spring 2010

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

(May 3, 2010 update): The sale announcements keep rolling in. Need a plan for mother’s day? How about a rare and native plant sale at a very special garden? Read on for details about the Kruckeberg sale and open house!

Plants for Sale!

Plants for Sale!

(April 24, 2010 update) Even more sale updates are being submitted! Read on for locations offering up sips of strawberry lemonade while you shop for your locally grown tomato starts.

(March 25, 2010 update) Plant sale updates keep rolling in, so it’s time to remind you to mark your calenders. Today, late breaking foodie plant news– it isn’t too late to get cool season crops from Seattle Tilth! If you missed the sale on March 20th, take heart! They’re doing it again on March 27th. Plus, we’ve been adding in other upcoming specialty sales coming up throughout the spring. Readers have contributed their submissions; if you have one to share, please send it in! Now, read on to find the hot horty sale spots for spring 2010!

If you haven’t already, it is time to mark your calender for all the great plant sales coming to the greater Seattle area this spring. Following is a list of some of my favorites. (Originally posted 3-14-2010)

If you have another plant sale you would like to see added to this list, let us know here.

If you aren’t in the greater Seattle area but would like to contribute plant sale information for your part of the world, let us know here.

Kruckeberg Gardens: Kruckeberg gardens is offering natives, spring bulbs, and unusual exotic plants for sale along with a free garden tour on May 8th. Too, expect family activities as well. Be sure to check their website for parking details. Local parking is limited, but satellite locations have been arranged. If you take the shuttle, you’ll get a $5 coupon!

  • May 7th & 8th from 10am-5pm
  • May 9th & 10th from 10am-5pm

Or, thinking of becoming a member? Members get in on the preview sale Thursday, May 6th from 10am-7pm. New members are welcome!

Fred Lind Manor and Jones Creek Farms are teaming up to offer our neighbors some old-fashioned hospitality. Sip on a complimentary glass of strawberry lemonade while you pick out the perfect tomato start from a local selection of organically grown, heirloom tomato plants. Fred Lind Manor, on the corner of 17th and Howell,  is a non-profit retirement community that has been serving Capitol Hill for 22 years. For more information, please call 206-774-5387 or just drop by the sale on Sunday, May 16, 2010

Seattle Tilth Edible Plant Sales: Yes, this year there are several from Seattle to Issaquah!

  • Added in March: March 27, 2010: Second Chance Edible Plant Sale for 40-60% off on cool season crop leftovers from the March 20th sale. Plus bareroot fruiting shrubs, vines and trees!

Lake Washington Technical College Plant Sale: Plants propagated, grown, and sold by students. Proceeds support this fantastic program. And, the plants range from trees to tomatoes.

  • April 24-25 & May 1-2, 2010: In addition to all the fantastic plants grown by students, Wholesale Nursery Northwest Nursery will be offering unbeatable prices on trees, shrubs, perennials and more. Proceeds from Northwest Nursery sales will go toward nursery founder, Jim Colman Memorial Scholarship fund, also helping students in horticulture.

Seattle Arboretum Plant Sales: Specialty plants, bulbs and much, much more.

Seattle Bamboo Festival: Bamboo poles, plants products, seminars, crafts, plus rare plant gallery and attending bamboo experts. Information on the Seattle Chapter of the American Bamboo Society is available here.

  • May 1-2, 2010: At the Graham Visitor Center at the Seattle arboretum.

King County Master Gardener Plant Sale: Buy plants, diagnose issues from your own garden, attend “how-to” seminars all in one location!

Highline Seatac Botanical Garden: From all-round garden reliables to rare botanicals. Meet with various botanical interest groups and more.

Broadview Garden Club Plant Sale: Including Trillium and Galanthus selections from Dunn Gardens!

  • May 1, 2010 (10am-2pm): Broadview Thompson School at 132nd and Greenwood
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Recycle Gardening Books by Donating to the Master Gardener Book Sale

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

My good friend and colleague, Kay, emailed the other day to ask if I had any old gardening books I no longer use that I could donate to the Master Gardener Fundraiser. I told her I’d do her one better — I’d post to the gardenhelp.org network of readers to draw from all of your libraries as well.

If you’re anything like me, you’ve got gardening books on your shelf that you never crack. Sure, you have your favorites that are missing half a cover and cracked at the binding and held together with rubber bands. But, I bet you’ve got a few that just don’t fit your needs. Maybe you bought them online and were surprised they didn’t really live up to your expectations. Or, maybe someone gave you one as a well-meaning gift, but the topic doesn’t fit you. Or, perhaps you’ve moved from one region to another but kept books that ended up no longer applying.  Or, maybe you’ve got multiple copies or multiple editions of the same thing. There’s got to be at least one on the shelf that you can part with, right?

Heck, I just pulled three big books off my shelves to donate. I bet somebody out there wants them, right? Well, go to the sale!

  • The Practical Gardener’s Encyclopedia from Whitecap Books
  • Sunset Western Landscaping
  • Sunset Water Gardens

So, consider giving to the  ultimate book recycling program this spring by donating your used garden books to the Master Gardener Sale. The funds from these books will be used to educate the public about sustainable gardening practices.  And, a book sitting on your shelf gathering dust, taking up room that your newest “must have” title needs, will move on to the hot hands of another horty in need.

The goal of the Master Gardener’s of King County program is to help the public practice sustainable gardening through integrated pest management, water-wise planting and similar science-based methods of meeting the horticultural challenges of home gardeners in the Pacific Northwest.

Why give to the program (besides doing a little spring cleaning for yourself?):

The Used Garden Book Sale is an important part of the Master Gardener Plant Sale.

Proceeds support the Master Gardener Foundation of King County which is a not-for-profit organization formed to raise the funds needed to operate all of the educational programs organized and staffed by the more than 650 volunteer Master Gardeners of King County. These programs include 34 plant problem clinics, 11 demonstration / outreach gardens, 17 youth garden sites, free public classes in a variety of locations, a speaker’s list, 11 portable classroom teaching kits for use in schools and community groups and a diagnostics center in Seattle.

(And, folks, you’ll be hearing more on this blog soon about how budget cuts will likely be affecting these programs. The picture isn’t pretty.)

Which books are appropriate to donate?

Any garden-related topic; horticulture literature or essays; gardening journals/magazines that are fairly new. They’ll take very old gardening books as well…. One person’s “throw away” may be another’s “treasure”!

Where and When to Drop Your Donations:

  • Where: Books can be dropped off at CUH
  • When: Tuesdays, March 17, March 24, March 31, and April 14 between 9-noon. (If you can’t make these dates, see Kaye’s info below to arrange for another pick up time.)
  • Who: Ask for Kaye Moreton

Want to go shopping at the sale?

  • When: Saturday, May 2, 2009,  8am-5pm  and Sunday, May 3, 2009, 10am-3pm
  • Where: UW Center for Urban Horticulture (CUH) in Seattle, WA

For More information or to arrange a special pickup/drop off:

  • Kaye Moreton: kmoreton(at)gmail.com or 425.308.0710
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Seattle Area Spring Plant Sales

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Looking for a list of 2009 Plant Sales? Check here!

Even though I keep waking up to frosty rooftops and occasionally watch snow mixed with rain falling from the sky as storms roll through, now is the time of year to watch for great plant sales. Nurseries begin sending out coupons, various garden club plant sale signs begin popping up on street corners, and the “regular” seasonal sale schedule reminders start showing up in the mail. Following are a few of my favorite spring sales. Consider hitting a few yourself!
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If you have a favorite plant sale in the greater Seattle area that isn’t listed here, please let me know here, and I will be glad to share it with our readers.

If you’re looking for the 2009 plant sale list, it will be posted soon. It may be sunny and warm in Seattle at the moment, but it isn’t quite time to put those baby starts out in the garden just yet. Please check in again soon, or fill out the gardenhelp form here to request notification of up-coming sales.

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