DIRECTIONS

 

RIWPS Members ONLY - Early Admission-8:30 AM

You want to "Go Green" but you aren't sure what to do.  Use native plants in your garden.  Natives are adapted to the particular combination of soil, temperature, and rainfall in Rhode Island.  They require little, if any, supplemental water, fertilizer, pesticides, or other chemicals.  This provides economic benefits (through reduced energy costs, water and maintenance), ecological benefits (by enhancing ecosystem stability and reduced chemical use), and aesthetic benefits (through the natural beauty native plants provide) a win-win situation for the gardener and the natural community.

GREAT SELECTION - This plant sale is unique because it features a wide variety of wildflowers and native shrubs often not available in local nurseries. There are plants for every location, wet places (bogs), dry places (drought tolerant), acid soils (rhododendrons and laurels), and shady areas.  This is a great opportunity to replace plants lost during our hard winter.

Here are just a few examples: Trilliums, Bloodroot, Columbine, Asters, Bleeding Heart, Wild Blue Phlox, Virginia Bluebells, Jack in the Pulpit, Mayapple, Solomon's Seal, Christmas Fern, Maidenhair Fern; bog plants, PLUS tons of gorgeous native laurels, azaleas, rhododendrons and other native shrubs.

OUR PLANTS ARE REASONABLY PRICED - Our volunteer Seed Starters have mastered the art of plant propagation on a shoestring budget, donating seeds and cuttings from their own gardens to produce the large range of perennials, ground covers, and native species offered in the sale.  Plants also come from RIWPS members who graciously dig plants from their own gardens, making native plants accessible to everyone. Knowledgeable members of the RI Wild Plant Society will be on hand all day to answer your questions and give out plant information. Come early for the best selection. 

RARE AND COLLECTIBLE PLANTS - One of our best-kept secrets is the Silent Auction at 10:30 am featuring collectible and specimen plants.  Every year "hard-core" gardeners turn out to try and out-bid each other for the rare, mature and collectible specimen plants we collect each year for the auction.

The Rhode Island Wild Plant Society is dedicated to the study, conservation, cultivation and restoration of Rhode Island's native plants.  The Chairman of the 2010 Plant Sale Committee is Marcia Pena.

The 2010 Sponsors - Our Media Sponsor for this sale is South County Independent Newspapers and the North-East Independent Newspaper.  The Business Sponsors are Belmont Market in Wakefield and Dave's Marketplace in North Kingstown. Please support our sponsors.  Thank you.

For more information please go to our website, www.riwps.org.  All the proceeds of this sale go directly to the RI Wild Plant Society's education and conservation programs.  Questions?  Please call 789-7497.