http://www.friendsschoolplantsale.com Mother's Day weekend at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:17:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Plant Sale shopper Shana has heard our call for photos, and responded with this photo of her Gallery Pink lupines, which are now in bloom. This plant is from the 2007 sale. Shana writes: "This plant sits on the edge of a rain garden in the front of my house. ... http://www.friendsschoolplantsale.com/archives/327 Long-time Plant Sale volunteer Ceil wrote in to tell us about her proven method for protecting her newly planted bulbs from roaming garden critters: "Henry saw these in my newest flower bed a few weeks ago and said I should take a picture and send it to you. "I use ... http://www.friendsschoolplantsale.com/archives/326 Wouldn't it be great to be able to see photos of more plants from the Plant Sale? You can help with this project! We would love to have photos of your plants and gardens to put on this website and into next year's catalog. For 2009, we plan to ... http://www.friendsschoolplantsale.com/archives/216 If you feel like sharing photos of what you got at the sale -- either before planting it or after -- please email them to us. Here are photos of my haul. See if you can pick out the Anthole begonia. And I couldn't resist the variegated Colorguard Yucca, which was ... http://www.friendsschoolplantsale.com/archives/325 This year's plant sale had two pieces of major media coverage. On Thursday before the sale, Mary V (our publicity coordinator and outside line wrangler extraordinaire), school development director Wendy Lutter, and four of our 8th graders were on KARE 11's 4 p.m. newscast for about 5 minutes. You can read ... http://www.friendsschoolplantsale.com/archives/324 Happy Mother's Day! All the rain on Saturday is good news for those who like to shop at the half-price sale on Sunday. There were quite a few plants left on Saturday night, especially annuals and shrubs. We will be using the new wristband system on Sunday which means that, if you ... http://www.friendsschoolplantsale.com/archives/223 The world-famous White Garden at Sissinghurst in England contains not only all shades of white flowers and gray foliage -- it has a surprising number of plants that are actually light pastels. Here are some white or nearly white flowers that will be at the sale. Above: Part of the ... http://www.friendsschoolplantsale.com/archives/285 A small selection of the carts from Friday morning. http://www.friendsschoolplantsale.com/archives/317 Here's a preview of the sale! Look what's waiting for you! Above: A684 Brush-Cherry Topiary p.48 Above: A 681 Banana 'Rowe Red' p. 48 Above: Another amazing cart! http://www.friendsschoolplantsale.com/archives/310 The plants began arriving today. Middle school students and volunteers spent the day receiving plants from our many growers. Here are a few photos. Above: We've moved the shrubs and trees outside along the front of the Grandstand. Above: A student "section leader" looks up the names of plants so other students ... http://www.friendsschoolplantsale.com/archives/300