VanDusen Botanical Gardens Plant Sale - Sunday

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growin Beautiful, BC(Zone 8b) Apr 29, 2006

If any of you are from the area, I just wanted to let you know the sale is Sunday. The sale supports the gardens and there's always some rarities here and there. Just a few I noticed: Embothrium, Melaleuca, Cardiocrinum, Sorbus commixta, Araucaria, Grislinea, etc, etc. I'll be selling books for the VanDusen library and selling subtropicals (Bamboo, Gunnera, bananas, etc). Hope to see you there! :-)

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growin Beautiful, BC(Zone 8b) Apr 30, 2006

I'm so happy - got some new plants from the sale. Melaleuca squarrosa - a zone 8 Tasmanian shrub with neatly arranged leaves around the stems - about 4'. Billardiera longiflora - another Tasmanian vining shrub with purple berries. Azara microphylla variegata from New Zealand and lastly a Fuchsia regia with long slender leaves and hardy. I'm so happy to get some new propagation plants that are a bit interesting.

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StarhillForest Illinois, IL(Zone 5b) Apr 30, 2006

Good for you! Having just returned late yesterday from working the INPS sale (made about $10,000 this year), I know how gratifying it is to see our "special" plants find homes with knowledgeable people who truly appreciate the treasures they have found.

Today I'm in recovery mode -- no outside work for me!

Guy S.

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digging_dirt comebychance, NL(Zone 5b) May 01, 2006

I wish i was there,i bought seed from VanDusen meny time,The plant sale must be assum to go to.How lucky you are to live there happy plant hunting,let us know what you bought.

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growin Beautiful, BC(Zone 8b) May 01, 2006

Digging_dirt, I could'a looked out for plants for ya if I had known b4. I did buy 4 seed packs; Dierama pulcherrimum, D. latifolium, Abutilon vitifolium & Colutea x media. It was a pretty good sale and good for the gardens. There were a few 6" Arisamaea which people were fighting over so I might try and grow a good batch of them.

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digging_dirt comebychance, NL(Zone 5b) May 02, 2006

Wow how nice ( as i bang my head agenced the wall,im so envious
I would even love to walf through the botanbical garden ,i've seem pic's of it .OHHHHHHHH will i can always dream,but the seed you bought sound great,i would fight over the Arisamaea myself,
if you do grow some think of me( wink,wink)



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