Welcome to our extravaganza known as the NWHS Plant Sale. It is the club's annual celebration of plants-- when we offer our favorites to the public at very competitive prices. It is a huge sale. We will have thousands of plants. Our new venue, the Armoury at Queens Avenue and 6th Street is both spacious inside and adjacent to the (no charge) NW City Hall parking lot.
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 the 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, cold crops-the list goes on-all of it tasty.
- Trees and shrubs including, once again, roses from NW Parks. These roses were removed from the original Queens Park Rose Garden in the anticipation of re-planting in the Garden but were found to be surplus. All are floribunda's and all are gorgeous. We are selling them on behalf of NW Parks.
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 will continue 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.
Come to the sale and celebrate our plants. The sale starts at 10am but you might just want to arrive early. Enjoy.