Taken at Ness Botanic Gardens on the 2021 holiday
PLANT SALES
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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.
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:-
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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:-
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?” 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:-
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. |
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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:-
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