How to Prepare Plants For Sale at Home
Most of us have something in the garden we can share, such as a Hosta, fern, lamb’s ear, phlox, or a heuchera which would benefit from division and re-planting. If you do, please consider donating it to our plant sale.
Our goal is to fill our sale with an impressive array of quality plants: ornamentals and edible, unusual and familiar, heritage and designer, tropical and hardy. We ask that your plant donations be kept to about 8-10 pots worth of any given plant—best not to have too much of a good thing! Variety and uniqueness make good sellers!
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Our goal is to fill our sale with an impressive array of quality plants: ornamentals and edible, unusual and familiar, heritage and designer, tropical and hardy. We ask that your plant donations be kept to about 8-10 pots worth of any given plant—best not to have too much of a good thing! Variety and uniqueness make good sellers!
When:
- Dig, divide and repot plants by mid-March to allow plants at least 6 weeks to develop a healthy root system.
- We also accept trays of well-established seedlings that you have started from seed
- Choose healthy plant material which is disease and pest-free.
- Do not include plant material transferred from regulated areas infested with Japanese Beetle.
- Do not include invasive species. Click here tor a list of invasive species.
- Click here, here, and here for information on how to divide and pot up perennial plants.
- Repot using potting soil, ideally including slow-release fertilizer.
- Attending the Club potting-up workshops in March is a great way to learn, if you are new to dividing and repotting plants.
- If in doubt, ask a member of the Plant Sale Committee.
- Clean and in good condition.
- Select a pot size which will result in a full, well-rooted plant by the sale date.
- Each pot should have a white and yellow tag. Click here for instructions.
- White tags should include the botanical and common name of the plant, height and flower colour, light and moisture requirements.
- When you are pricing your plants, use the club's suggested pricing guide. Click here for guide.
- Plant tags are available for sale at Club meetings in February, March & April..
- You can donate 100% of the funds raised by the sale of your plant to the Club, or you can split the funds with 70% for you and 30% for the Club. Click here for instructions
- Plants should be healthy and well-presented.
- Cut off any dead leaves or straggly bits. Ask yourself "Would I buy this plant?"
- Wipe down plant pots so they look presentable, and not muddy.
- Water your plants the day before you deliver them to the church.
- Make sure each pot has both a white and a yellow tag, and that both tags face outwards.
- When plants arrive at the Hall on set-up day, they are screened by volunteers to make sure they are sale-worthy.
- Poor quality plants will be set aside and not included in the sale.
- The final decision rests with the coordinator for the receiving area.
- The plant displays inside the hall are determined by the coordinator for each area.
