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HARDY PLANT SOCIETY
​DORSET GROUP
Taken at Ness Botanic Gardens on the 2021 holiday

PLANT SALES

At Speaker Meetings
​At the majority of our Speaker Meetings we offer plants for sale. These may be provided by our members or by the Speaker.
Any of the plants provided by the members can be sold in one of 2 ways.
  1. Members bring plants and donate them so that all money from each plant will go to Group funds
  2. Members can profit from their propagation efforts and sold using our 'Double Ticketed' system, see below for full explanation, where the Group gets a percentage, and the rest goes back to the member bringing the plant.
2022 PLANT FAIR - Saturday 7th May,
2.30 - 4.30pm

The plan is to host the Plant Fair in the car park at Colehill Village Hall again, as it works so well - and hopefully sell more tea and cake inside the Hall this year. So if you are propagating plants and think you will have plants to sell, please contact us.
All are more than welcome... (Members and non-members)

We are always looking for the following help:-
  • to provide plants for sale
  • to sell plants
  • to make cakes
  • to man the refreshments
If you are able to help in any of these ways, could you please let us know via the Contact Us page and we will be in touch.
Notes for Preparing Your Plants For Sale
During the year we shall be needing lots of plants. The Dorset Group will be selling plants at:-
  • 7 Speaker Meetings
  • The Annual Plant Fair in May, and
  • 4 NGS garden openings at Manor Farm

Our plant sales are a vital source of funding towards our speakers and, as you can imagine, the price of speakers goes steadily up, particularly their travel costs these days. Over the years, we have encouraged our members to propagate their own plants at home (by taking cuttings, division or sowing seed), then bring them along to be sold on the Plants Table. As a buyer you get a good plant much cheaper than it would have cost you in the garden centre, and, as a seller you make money to cover at least the cost of the compost and the pot.

'Double Ticketing' System
The double ticketing system means you can profit from your own propagation efforts. You give the plant 2 tickets - where one ticket has your surname and price, and the other has the plant name and anything important abut the plant, e.g. 'plant in shade'. When the plant is sold - you get to keep most of the sale price, and we keep a percentage towards group funds.


Plant Quality & Presentation
As you can appreciate, we try to ensure the quality of the plants we offer is of a high standard so the test is –

“Would I buy this plant?”

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Larger plants and those in flower usually sell especially well. We always need 'good doers' as well as those we might cherish as 'something special'.  The following are useful to consider:-
  • A clean pot – a good wipe solves that and presentation helps sell a plant.
  • A plant that is not pot-bound, but is well-established if possible. We recommend it be potted up at least three weeks previously.
  • A weed-free plant with no liverwort on the compost surface and no creepy crawlies – again presentation is key
  • Correctly labelled (we will do our best to help with this)
  • Dead flowers and leaves removed – presentation again
 
It’s common sense really.  We gardeners can’t resist buying plants, but we do like the unusual and the well-grown.  Think of us when splitting up plants, and again when hoeing off those seedlings.  We also accept recently split plants or dug up bulbs, please wrap these in damp paper and a polythene bag so that it is clear that the plant must be planted at once.
Afterwards, you collect all unsold plants and any money owed to you.
 
So when you next come to a meeting, bring some plants with you, and maybe take a few different ones home with you? For any help or advice please contact our Group Secretary via our Contacts page or come and speak to a committee member, or Andrew, our President, who is often at the Plant sales table.


We also sell plants at the NGS Open Days at Manor Farm, Hampreston   BH21 7LX
Our members, Anne & Guy Trehane, open their wonderful garden at Hampreston under the National Garden Scheme,
ie. the Yellow Book. They have asked us to man the Plant Table where all funds raised are subject to our normal "double ticketed" system, see below. So if you have any plants you would like us to sell, or maybe you would like to come along and help us sell the plants, why not contact us beforehand. It's good fun and you get to meet many lovely people.
This year the garden will be open:-
  • Sunday 29th May from 1 - 5pm
  • Sunday 17th July from 1 - 5pm
  • Sunday 7th August from 1 - 5pm
​Alternatively you can just come to see us, and wander around the lovely garden, the NGS entrance of £4.00 would then be payable.
Picture
Meetings generally held at:-
COLEHILL VILLAGE HALL
Cannon Hill Road
Colehill, Wimborne
Dorset, BH21 2LR
email: dorsethps@gmail.com
Last updated 25/02/22  17:51