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Plant Sales
2025 Schedule
- April 5 (Saturday): Mini-sale at the chapter meeting
- May 10 (Saturday): Members' plant sale at the Robbins Park in Ambler
- September 20 (Saturday): Public sale at the Fall Gardeners' Market in Collegeville
- October 18 (Saturday): Mini sale at the DVC-NARGS meeting in northwest Philadelphia
Among the plants for sale at the Fall Gardeners' Market will be this yellow pitcher plant (Sarracenia flava).
April 5 Mini-Sale
At our chapter meeting, Rabbit Hole plants sold items from their collection of extraordinary perennials.
In addition, the chapter sold plants. Featured plants included Trillium sulcatum and native bog plants, such as pitcher plants (Sarracenia) and the rare bog asphodel (Narthecium americanum).
May 10 Sale
Members' plant sales are open only to chapter members and their guests. These sales feature plants that are suited to our climate and are very reasonably priced, starting at $2 a pot.
Our silent auction plants are legendary for offering unusual plants, as well as hypertufa troughs and other sought-after items.
Fall Gardeners' Market
Saturday, September 20, 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM, at the Montco 4H Center, 1015 Bridge Road, Collegeville, PA.
We offered rock garden plants, bog plants, and other unusual plants.
Mini Sale at the DVC-NARGS October meeting
Saturday, October 18, 9:30 to 10 AM and after the lecture, roughly 11-11:15 AM. At the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill (8855 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia). Plants for sale include the following:
ROCK GARDEN PLANTS |
Aethionema grandiflora | large-flowered candytuft |
Allium thunbergii 'Ozawa' | Japanese fall allium |
Androsace carnea | rock primrose |
Antennaria dioica 'Rubra' | pussytoes |
Asarum forbesii 'Venus' | wild ginger |
Asarum shuttleworthii 'Calloway' | wild ginger |
Campanula portenschlagiana 'Resholdt's' | Dalmatian bellflower |
Campanula poscharskyana | Serbian bellflower |
Campanula rotundifolia | harebell |
Degenia velebitica | Croatian degenia |
Delosperma cooperi | ice plant |
Epimedium x youngianum 'Azusa' | barrenwort |
Eriogonum umbellatum | sulphur buckwheat |
Lychnis yunnanensis | Yunan catchfly |
Origanum 'Kent Beauty' | roundleaf oregano |
Penstemon grandiflorus 'Prairie Snow' | large-flowered beardtongue |
Rosularia rosulata | rosette-leaved stonecrop |
Sedum 'Red Canyon' | stonecrop |
Sedum dasyphyllum | Corsican stonecrop |
Sedum sieboldii 'Mediovariegatum' | stonecrop |
Solidago 'Montana Minnie' | dwarf goldenrod |
Tetraneuris herbacea | lakeside daisy |
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BOG PLANTS
Bog garden in a pot | |
Lophiola aurea | gold-crest |
Narthecium americanum | bog-asphodel |
Oclemena nemoralis | bog aster |
Tricophorum alpinum | cotton deergrass |
Vaccinium macrocarpon | cranberry |
Vaccinium macrocarpon 'Hamilton' | dwarf cranberry |
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HARDY PERENNIALS
Acanthus hungaricus | bear's breeches |
Adiantum venustum | Himalayan maidenhair fern |
Campanula persicifolia 'Mackey's White' | peachleaf bellflower |
Delphinium exaltatum | tall larkspur |
Dicentra eximia | fernleaf bleeding-heart |
Disporopsis arisanensis | evergreen Solomon's seal |
Epimedium 'Lilac Cascade' | barrenwort |
Epimedium lishihchenii | barrenwort |
Heuchera 'Rave On' | alum root |
Hosta 'Little White Lines' | hosta |
Oligoneuron rigidum | stiff goldenrod |
Packera sp. | ragwort |
Phlox carolina 'Kim' | Carolina phlox |
Phlox stolonifera 'Fran's Purple' | creeping phlox |
Solidago nemoralis | gray goldenrod |
Solidago plumosa | Yadkin River goldenrod |
Zingiber mioga 'White Feathers' | Japanese ginger |
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MISCELLANEOUS
Amorphophallus bulbifer | pink voodoo lily |
Galanthus elwesii, fall blooming | fall snowdrops |
Lonicera pileata 'Moss Green' | box-leaved honeysuckle |
Patrinia monandra | golden lace |
Campanula portenschlagiana 'Resholdt's Variety' (Dalmatian bellflower).
Photographed May 6, 2010 in Philadelphia. Photo by Janet Novak.
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