Local clubs offer lots of garden gear plus much more at huge yard sale
The patio and parking lot of the Shepard Garden & Arts Center in East Sacramento will be the site of the Community Yard Sale this Saturday. Kathy Morrison
Gardeners of all kinds tend to accumulate stuff – especially gardening stuff such as plants, pots, tools, books and garden art. Just the sort of stuff of which any gardener needs more.
Here’s your chance to get some of that useful garden and flower-arranging stuff at great prices during the annual Community Yard Sale, set for Saturday, May 18, at Shepard Garden and Arts Center.
Organized by the Sacramento chapter of Ikebana International, the sale also features other garden clubs and club members who use Shepard Center, Sacramento’s garden clubhouse.
Sale hours will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Admission and parking are free. Sale items aren’t limited to garden-connected items; individuals could sell whatever they like, just like other yard sales. Except this one features dozens of sellers in one place, and all of them have a gardening interest.
This event is a fundraiser for the Ikebana club, which meets regularly at Shepard Center and preserves the art of Japanese-inspired flower arranging.
Shepard Center is located at 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento, in McKinley Park. The sale will be held on the center’s outdoor patio and parking lot.
Details and directions: https://www.sgaac.org/.
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