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May 18: Spring Garden Fair and Plant Sale

From David Mitchell:

The May plant sale will return to the Ithaca High School (1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca, New York 14850) on May 18. Sale hours are 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Set up is Friday around 4 p.m. to 7p.m. and Saturday beginning at 8 a.m. Arrive early Saturday to drop off plants and help complete the setup. Our booth will be located indoors, probably in the gym.

This year we’re asking volunteers to sign up fortime slots before the sale. Though this is not a requirement to volunteer, it helps us spread the workload. Advance praise for the following members who have volunteered to help with the sale: Carol Eichler, Joan Lawrence, BZ Marranca, Nari Mistry, Marcia Meigs, Susanne Lipari, John Gilrein, Mary Stauble, Jayne Port, Joan Hermann, and Terry Humphries. Contact me if you're willing to volunteer an hour or two. We need Friday set-up help, final Saturday set-up(8-9), sales people every hour (especially the 9-10 rush), and clean-up at 2.

Remember to pot your plants in soilless mix and to label them in advance (Latin name preferred). I have labels and pots of various sizes if you need them.

My driveway is available for drop offs any time before the day of the sale if you can’t make it to the high school Friday or Saturday morning. The driveway is on the Washington Street side of the corner of Washington and Esty Streets (402 Esty Street). My phone number is (607) 342-3660 should you have any questions about the sale. Tompkins County Cooperative Extension can be reached at (607) 272-2292 or visit the plant sale website.
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Tip #1: members receive a 25% discount on their purchases from our table. Since our membership runs the calendar year, you may not have renewed yet (or joined for the first time) this year. Membership forms will be available so you may do so at the time of your purchase.

Tip #2: the Master Gardeners will have about 50 pots of double bloodroots, from Pat Curran's garden, for sale.

Tip #3: Visitors are encouraged to bring carts or wagons to aid in transporting their plant purchases to their cars.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Work weekend at White Pine Camp June 18-20

From Carol Eichler.

I'm organizing another working weekend at White Pine Camp in the Adirondacks for the weekend of June 18-20, with an emphasis on adding plants to the garden.

Anyone who is interested in going this year should contact me by April 17 - our April meeting. Space is limited. Priority will be given to people who have not yet been there. We will stay for 2 nights - Friday and Saturday. It is a working weekend so we will plan to spend about a half day on Saturday working - doing fun stuff like weeding, planting, watering, mulching, etc. Between White Pine Camp and the George's we have a budget of $150 to spend on plants. Hopefully we can supplement this with plants from our own gardens and the seedling exhange or other donations. I'll gather together our notes on what seemed to do well. Last summer we found many plants survived that shouldn't have been hardy because of the heavy snow cover.

On the way up on Friday we will take a side trip to Seneca Hill Perennials for a tour of Ellen Hornig's wonderful gardens. (But the nursery will not be open so we can't buy plants.)

If you're interested in the trip or have questions, contact me: ceichler@twcny.rr.com or 607-387-5823.
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Carol_at_IINHS said...

I want to finalize this trip by the end of April. Last call for anyone wanting to go and stay at White Pine Camp. (I still have space).

April 20, 2010 at 1:49 PM

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