Preparing for the Master Gardener Plant Sale Native Plant Bar Rare Perennials Hardy Bananas

Hi friends. hope you're having wonderful day out there in your gardens. Well, have very special video for you all today. I'm here to give you an exclusive sneak peek tour of the Lancaster County Master Gardener plant sale. This is sale we've been doing once year for decades. All of the proceeds benefit your local Master Gardeners and we're all volunteers. We volunteer our time to learn about plants and we give back to our community by volunteering in the community regarding plants and gardening. So this is basically our biggest fundraiser of the year. So if you live near Lancaster County and you see any plants today that you would like to purchase, please consider coming down to our sale this Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Sell out is likely. In fact, the last couple years know we've sold out prior to 12:00 o'clock. So it's good idea to arrive as early as possible. Now if you arrive prior to 8:00 a.m. at the Farm and Home Center, there's probably going to be line forming outside of these doors and these doors will all be closed. Right at 8:00 a.m., the doors open up and there will be lots of Master Gardeners waiting inside to greet you. And when these doors open at 8:00 o'clock, you want to grab box right away. That way you can shop immediately because things sell out very quickly. So you can see underneath all our tables, we have boxes for your convenience. So these two tables are our shade tables. We've got vegetables over on the left-hand side. Three tables full of sun perennials and in the back we have something really exciting called native plant plug bar and I'll take you over there and show you know that's going to work. In the back, we have two tables that are going to be pushed together and they're going to have herbs on them. Now, prices range between $5 and $19. Cash and check is preferred, but we will accept credit card as well. Everything is in alphabetical order by the botanical Latin name. So, let's just take full tour together. So, you can see we still have lot of plants to put out, but we'll just take look at what we have out so far. We've got Allium Lavender Bubbles right here. And this is plug. think these are going to be priced at $5 or $6. And look at how healthy the plants are here. We've got Peruvian Lily. this is one of my favorite Amsonias. This is called Amsonia Butterscotch and it does turn this amazing orange color in the fall. Lots of information for you on all of these pages. You can see at the flower color, the bloom time, height, width. Japanese Anemones, very hard to find in our area. And that's the great thing about coming to sale like this is you get really unique and unusual plants. Look at this really cool Columbine. This is called Little Lanterns. Here's another Columbine. This one's called Purple White. And we have two different kinds of thrift, white one called Dream Clouds. And purple called Vivid Dreams. We've got lots of different mints coming to the table as speak. And down here, we've got Baptisias, Verbenas, Calamints, Mallows. I'll take you outside, too, because of these plants are currently outside and they're being washed off and cleaned by the master gardeners. We've got dog here as well, so you know it's going to be good day if dog's in the background. couple different kinds of tickseed. This one's called Mercury Rising. And this one's called Starstruck. Some beautiful coreopsis. Ice plant. Actually, it looks like we're going to have three different kinds of ice plant. We've got two delphiniums here. actually four delphiniums total. And then look at this gorgeous dianthus called Firewitch. need whole flat of that in my life. look at this one. This dianthus is called Tiny Rubies. need whole flat of that also. We've got some different kinds of echinacea. Everyone's working so hard. So many hands on deck for this plant sale. As think said, everyone here is volunteer, just volunteering their time to put on this event for us. Check out these coneflowers. We got Tequila Sunrise, White Perfection, and then we even have sea holly, eryngium. look, very hard to find in our area. We've got some wallflowers. Isn't that beautiful? was just at Meadowbrook Farm the other day and they had lot of wallflower over in that garden. Euphorbia, once again, very hard to find in our area at an affordable price. Little Joe-Pye weed. Gaura. This is the pink gaura. And then we also have whirling butterflies, which is white Gaura. Two kinds of geranium, Mary Ann and Rozanne. And look at this, creeping baby's breath. And it almost has succulent type of foliage. Four different kinds of sneezeweed. Siesta looks nice. Sombrero looks nice, too. So, these will be coming in shortly. think all of our vegetables arrive tomorrow, so can show you pictures of what we're going to have, but we won't actually have the plants here until tomorrow. look at these lupines. my goodness. Mini Gallery Blue, Mini Gallery Pink, and Mini Gallery Red. that is delightful. couple different kinds of Monarda here. Monarda bee you, bee merry. We've got another Monarda here called Jacob Cline. Really, any kind of plant that you've been dreaming of is probably in this room right now. look at this cat mint. This has really unique foliage color. It's called chartreuse on the loose. That's great name. All right, here's our last table of sun perennials. Gorgeous beard tongue. want to point this plant out to you guys. This is perennial verbena. had no idea that there was verbena that was perennial versus an annual. Look at the size of these black-eyed Susans. This particular cultivar is called cherry brandy. And you know, the prices here, guys, they're just fantastic. And like said, the profits go right back into the volunteer work that the master gardeners do. We've got meadow sage, blue marble, and also April night. Now, let me take you over here to our native plant bar where you can get some very hard-to-find native plant plugs for very reasonable price. So, what's going to happen is that there's going to be list over here of all the plugs that we have available and you'll be able to fill out the list selecting what native plant plugs you would like to purchase. So, we've got dwarf joe pye weed, sneezeweed, blue flag, blazing star, and this is what the plugs look like down here. And you can see people hard at work there preparing more of the plugs in the background. Calico aster, New England aster, aromatic aster, northern maidenhair fern, so many great plants to choose from. Some really cool sedges over here, blue wood sedge, rosy sedge. look, wild geranium. And you can see the plug down below there. look, we're even going to have some bluebells, Virginia bluebells, Jacob's ladder, foamflower, love that. So, this is just great way to get lot of native plant material for an affordable price. And look at how healthy these native plant plugs are. You know, you can buy native plants online, but the quality is sometimes very poor. But here, you can see the plants close up and you can see how healthy they all look. Now these aren't set up yet, but this table and this table are going to be pushed together and they're going to have all of our herbs. All the herbs are going to be $3 each. What steal, $3 for herbs. Look at that penstemon right there. I'm guessing that's Black Knight penstemon. We've got some really cool looking cannas right here. More cannas here. Clematis or clematis, depending on how you like to say it. Look at the size of these delphinium. Dianthus over here, hostas, epimedium. And then look at those penstemon and the columbine in the distance with that pink veronica. So many beautiful things. So the room looks good now, but it is going to look phenomenal come Saturday morning. You definitely want to stop by. it's really windy. Sorry about that. Probably lots of noise in my mic right now. But look at all of these gorgeous plants. Look at that white fern leaf bleeding heart. don't think I've ever seen white fern leaf bleeding heart before. See back there, we actually have hardy bananas that you can leave in the ground in our area. And then this plant right here is called Jacob's Ladder. love that plant so much. I'm going to sneak over here past lot of these gorgeous heucheras that we have. Look at this one called Stoplight. Look at that lime colored foliage. Don't you just love that? Blue Mouse Ears Hosta. You know what? Let's go over here and look at this wood poppy. Gorgeous pulmonaria. This is great plant if you have deer. They don't like the texture of pulmonaria. We've got amazing foliage color on this dark lady ligularia. mean, it almost looks black. It's really dark eggplant, would say. We've got some fabulous master gardeners over here prepping everything. And you can see all of our vegetables are going to arrive tomorrow, and we have so many unique and cool tomato plants. Look at this one. Yellow pear tomato. I'm going to have to get few of those. Super sweet 100. look at this one. This is cool. Fish pepper. King of the north pepper. like the name on that one. And then just some classics like our banana pepper, black beauty zucchini. We'll have some watermelon, some pumpkins, even things like okra and eggplant will be available. And it looks like we'll have some celery and cucumber as well. New things are arriving in the room every second. Look at this. Texas cedar sage. gorgeous. Was this meadow sage here the last time we visited? But friends, I'm going to wrap up today's video here so can do some hands-on help before leave for parent pickup. I'm going to put all the information you need about the Lancaster County Master Gardener plant sale in the description section down below, and really hope you'll come out and see us this Saturday from 8:00 to 12:00. Bye, friends.