Fall planting means fall plant sales, too
Sacramento area and foothill gardeners are surely looking forward to cooler weather and fall planting — and fall plant sales, too.
Local chapters of the California Native Plant Society kick things off this month with online sales; plant pickup is about a week later in person.
First up is the El Dorado chapter’s sale, which begins next week, Thursday, Sept. 11, at 9 a.m. It concludes 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14, with the pickup window the following weekend, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 20 or 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 21.
El Dorado’s pickup days and location will be at the site of RIPE AREA: The Art of Native Plants Festival at Wakamatsu Farm, 941 Cold Springs Road, Placerville. For more information on the sale, the plant list or to volunteer, go to https://eldoradocnps.org.
The festival itself takes place only on Sunday, Sept. 21. Information on this joint event of the American River Conservancy and Myrtle Tree Arts is available here.
Next up will be the plant sale by the Sacramento Valley chapter of CNPS. Online ordering for this sale will be 8 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, to 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22. Pickup days will be Sunday, Sept 28; Monday, Sept. 29; and Sunday, Oct. 5.
The pickup site is the nursery location, 2140 Chase Drive, Rancho Cordova, tucked into the Soil Born Farms site.
For more details and a preliminary list of plants to be sold, go to https://www.sacvalleycnps.org/plant-sales/
Late September will also see the return of the plant sales at the UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery. The first sale, which is only for members of the Friends of the Arboretum, is Saturday, Sept. 27, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Members also get 10 percent off their plant sale purchases. For membership information, go here.
The remaining UC Davis sales will be Saturday, Oct. 18, which is a public sale, and Saturday, Nov. 15, which is the seasonal clearance sale, also open to the public. Both sales are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Look for inventory updates the week before each sale.
The Arboretum Teaching Nursery is at 1046 Garrod Drive, across from the Small Animal Hospital on the UC Davis campus. Parking on campus is free on the weekends.
For more sale information, a nursery map and a list of shopping tips, go to https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/plant-sales
Sacramento Digs Gardening will have more information on these and other plant sales as the dates approach.
