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Green Lake's Streetwise Gardener: Early Bird Gets the Plant Sales

What do you think? (3 Comments) February 23, 2010 at 3:10PM

If last weekend’s warm weather has your fingers itching to get digging, these precocious plant sales are here in March to enable, uh, I mean help you:

South Seattle Community College Landscape Horticulture Program Plant Sale
Thursday, March 4 and Saturday, March 6, 2010 from 11:00am to 3:00pm

More information: srafanelli@sccd.ctc.edu or 206-764-5323. Come in & support SSCC Landscape Horticulture students who propagate vegetables, shrubs, perennials & trees to sell. Sale held at the Nursery, North Lot entrance.
6000 16th Ave SW
, Seattle, WA 98106

Tomato Seedlings | photo credit: jspatchwork

Tomato Seedlings | photo credit: jspatchwork

March Mania Plant Sale
Sunday, March 7, 2010 from 11:00am to 3:00pm

More information: 425-647-6004, or info@northwestperennialalliance.org. Sale formerly known as the Hellebore Open House. Unique plants from the Northwest Perennial Alliance borders & local vendors, including spring ephemerals & hellebores. Sale held at the Bellevue Botanical Garden Visitor Center.
12001 Main St, Bellevue, WA 98005

Seattle Tilth Early Spring Edible Plant Sale
Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 9:00am to 2:00pm

More information:206-633-0451. Selection of plant varieties proven to perform well in the Pacific NW during the cool season, including rare & heirloom vegetables. Also perennial edibles such as cane fruit, unusual fruiting shrubs & trees. Sale held at Warren G. Magnuson Park, Hangar 30.
6310 NE 74th St, Seattle, WA 98115

Two in Tacoma March 20:


Rose Gardens Benefit Garden Sale
Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 9:00am to 3:00pm

More information: 253-591-5328. Benefits the purchase of new roses for Point Defiance Park’s Rose Garden. Sale features roses grown by Park staff, Tacoma Rose Society members & from local nurseries. Other plants & garden treasures too. Sale held at Point Defiance Park Pagoda.
5801 Trolley Ln., Tacoma WA 98407

Washington State Dahlia Society Tuber Sale
Saturday, March, 20 2010 from 9:00am to 4:00pm

More information: lynnie.sperring@comcast.net or 253-548-6036. Sale at the University of Puget Sound Flea Market at the campus Memorial Fieldhouse.
1500 N Warner, Tacoma, WA 98416

Seattle African Violet & Puget Sound Gesneriad Society Annual Show & Plant Sale
Sunday, March 21, 2010 from 9:00am to 4:00pm

More information:206-579-6057, 206-819-6239, or thecopse@comcast.net. Many exhibits, education booths, & plants for sale. Held at Swanson’s Nursery.
9701 15th Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117

  • http://twitter.com/BrandTallDeb Deb Kapsner

    Tilth is moving the plant sale to Magnuson this year? Cool–it was a bit soggy at Meridian Park last year!

  • http://twitter.com/BrandTallDeb BrandTallDeb

    Tilth is moving the plant sale to Magnuson this year? Cool–it was a bit soggy at Meridian Park last year!