Find hundreds of plants at one-day event in East Sacramento
Find many types of plants, get garden tools sharpened, and support a fundraiser during the Sacramento Perennial Plant Club sale on Friday, Oct. 18. Courtesy Sacramento Perennial Plant Club
If you're a gardener looking for new fall plants, you'll want to make a bee line to Friday's one-day plant sale by the Sacramento Perennial Plant Club.
The club's talented propagators have produced many hundreds of plants for this fundraiser, which will be held 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, at 877 53rd St., in East Sacramento.
California native plants, cool-season vegetables, sun-to-shade loving perennials and late fall-into-spring blooming bulbs are among plants to be found during the sale.
Many of these plants are unusual or hard to find. The propagators' favorite natives include Cobb Mountain lupine, a full-sun, low-water stunner, and Apache plume, a dramatic blooming shrub that thrives in hot, dry, west-facing locations. Other favorite to be sold include an heirloom double columbine called 'Ruby Port', the tall, drought-tolerant Verbascum chaixii 'Album' (a.k.a. wedding candles), and striking 'Chim Chiminee' black-eyed Susan.
Organic vegetables on sale will include broccoli, kale, cauliflower and "Bright Lights" chard.
Stan "the Tool Man" also will be on site to sharpen garden tools, scissors and kitchen knives. He also can drill holes in pots that need drainage.
Shoppers also will find T-shirts (long- and short-sleeved) designed by SPPC member Daisy Mah. Proceeds from sales benefit the WPA Rock Garden in Land Park that Mah is known for revitalizing and tending.
For more on the sale, visit the club's Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/sacperennialplantclub. For information on the club itself, including meetings, go to sacplants.org.
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