SUBMITTED BY SSI GARDEN CLUB
The Salt Spring Island Garden Club’s annual Spring Plant Sale is on Saturday, April 26 at the Farmers’ Institute, offering hundreds of plants propagated by the club’s members for sale at bargain prices.
This year, you will find a large array of both ornamental and edible plants. Ornamentals include irises, poppies, daylily, hardy geraniums, phlox, leopard’s bane, roses, violets, ajuga, Shasta daisy, wooly lambs ears, sedums and much more. Some of the edibles include fruits such as jostaberry, raspberry and strawberries, as well as some veggie starts. New this year is a table devoted to native plants, which will include sea thrift, kinnickinnick, goldenrod, salal, huckleberry, blue-eyed grass and more.
Chorus Frog Nursery operators will also be there, offering quality starts of vegetables, herbs and flowers. Additional vendors include Idle Wilde Nursery selling permaculture plants and more. Fawn Lily Nursery will sell native plants such as shooting star. Nigel Kay will have permaculture plants and Charley Miller will also be set up with starts.
The sale runs from 1 to 3 p.m. People should bring boxes to put their plants in, and a few extra boxes, if they can, for someone else to use. Payment is by cash or credit card.