Spring Open Garden Seed & Plant Sale

Ajouté : 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Happy Cinco de Mayo everybody. I'm Bri the plant lady. I'll admit I have had a couple mojitos, but I was encouraged to make a video about all the stuff that we have for sale because well, everybody thought that I would be entertaining a little bit drunk. So, I'm gonna go ahead turn this camera around and show you all the seeds and the plants that we are going to have available for sale at the Spring Open Garden this Saturday, May 9th, from noon to 400 p.m. It's free. No registration, rain or shine. I hope that you can come out and visit us.

[00:00:36]So, I've got the seeds set up in the greenhouse just in case it rains. I don't think it's going to. And I decided to do a thing because I made these really nice signs about the seeds.

[00:00:50]And I have some of the seeds that are also available as plants. So I've put them together so you can make a decision whether you want to buy a seed pack for $5 or if you want to buy a plant for $2.

[00:01:02]All of the vegetables are $2 a piece just to keep things super easy. All of the seed packs are $5 each. keep things really easy. I have a lot of other plants besides squash. I've got okra, peppers, some fava beans, a wide variety of tomatoes, um some cucumbers, some mixed six-packs, which are actually quite nice, and then some cotton as well. All available here in the greenhouse. $2 a piece, all the plant material that's in the greenhouse.

[00:01:38]So, let's just do a quick overview.

[00:01:40]Burgundy caster bean. I made nice big fat packs.

[00:01:45]Zenyas, these are open pollinated.

[00:01:48]They're going to be a wide variety of different colors and shapes.

[00:01:53]Cosmos are mostly single from the seaell series. Again, I think good signage.

[00:02:01]Got sesame. Now, I actually do have sesame plants as well, but have those outside still. I'm going to bring them in for the sale on Saturday. But I have sesame packs. Those are 1oz packs.

[00:02:11]They're going to cover about 400 square feet.

[00:02:15]I've got Kusha squash, which is a North Carolina native squash that is vinebore resistant. And I only have six plants of those.

[00:02:25]So I would say based off of that, the germination rate of these seed packs isn't going to be super high.

[00:02:32]I've got what I call big good squash.

[00:02:36]It has a name. I don't know it. Look, I literally wrote that. Yes, it has a name. I just can't find it. Still worth growing. It's a great It's a great squash. It's big. It stores really well.

[00:02:47]And I have a tray of those seedlings.

[00:02:50]And then I have a tray of seminal pumpkin, which is hands down my favorite. This is native to Central Florida. Not only is it squash vine bora resistant, but it is powdery mildew resistant as well. Of course, I've got rice seed, but I also have rice plants, which I'm going to show you. I've got Sonia.

[00:03:11]I have a good squash from my friend Helga. And I actually have a tray of that and the seed. It's really a reliable grower. Got some sorghum, both in seed packs and already vegetatively growing. And I've got some really cool okra varieties. And what I did this year is I mixed the seed packs. So in each pack there's a different combination of plants and there's about 10 seeds of each variety. So it's kind of a neat opportunity to grow a bunch. I have some random sylvium got daon radish and I'm probably going to give these away on Thursday at our sip and stroll event. But I've got some great burgundy maragold seeds as well. So, I mentioned rice and I've got black mudras rice plants available for sale at $2 a piece.

[00:04:06]Uh, that's like the best deal ever. And then I've also here is the sesame that I pre- sprouted. I fertilized it. I've got it out here in the sun hoping that it'll bulk up. Doesn't really seem big enough to me to sell. I'll make that call on Saturday. But I also want to encourage you, I'm using all recycled plastic, okay?

[00:04:26]I'm not buying any plastic, new plastic for this event. And if you're inclined, please bring your own trays to gather your plants with is I don't want to spend money on something that's so disposable and bad for our environment.

[00:04:42]And look, everything that it that goes handinhand with growing plants involves plastic. There's a plastic tray, a plastic pot, a plastic label. Fertilizer that is the waste product of um well synthetic fertilizer is a waste product of petroleum. So if you can bring your own stuff to gather plants, I would really appreciate it because I don't want to have to supply more disposable stuff. My goal is to get you to garden, not fill a landfill. So, please bring your own plastic.

[00:05:20]Here is the Carex table. So, I had a sale today to let everybody know. And they did a pretty good job of of buying up some Carex. But I've got three different varieties of Carex this time.

[00:05:33]Two hybrids and and one Asian with a pink flower. It's actually a really really interesting plant. Um, those are $5 each, six for 20, >> a full tray of 32 for $100. And you can mix and match the carex with the other stuff, the other perennials from Hoffman and the other grasses from Hoffman, as well as the native plants on my $5 table over there. So, it's a really good deal. I think the six for 20 is a super good deal. And I've got some really nice things here. We've got Helanths and Guspholius.

[00:06:18]Um this is Vernonia Nova Boreansis.

[00:06:25]Uh skitsicarium sculparium. This is the uh little blue stem. Fantastic roots ready to go into the ground. Over here we've got white muy. My favorite muenia.

[00:06:38]Look at that. It's so ready to be planted. And then we've got hibiscus mashados, which is the rose mow. Again, these are ready to go into your garden. You don't need to pot them up. And same thing with this Amsonia.

[00:06:54]This is Amsonia Tabernet Montana. So, these are $5 a piece, six for 20, and a tray of 32 for 100.

[00:07:07]All right, man. agave. I've decided to sell them at a loss at $5 a piece. Um because I really want people to grow these because they're awesome and it's because they're part of the Proven Winners line and they sent me all these pots and all these labels and I just want to get the plants into people's gardens and really into containers. So, I've got six varieties. This is bad hair days, one of my favorites. And I'm everything on this table is $5 a piece.

[00:07:38]It's just I think the easy way all of these plants go together in containers that you could bring inside and just keep dry but frostfree.

[00:07:48]So that is the succulent table.

[00:07:51]All right, this is the breeze favorites table and it's full of tomatoes that I really love. So lots of cream sausage, really great looking plants. I mean, and look at those roots.

[00:08:05]I'm I'm really really happy with my tomato crop this year. I also pulled out some sweetie again. Great roots. I'm just using the reusing the trays from the native plants that I bought. And then this is super sauce. This is another great one. This is from Burpee. And the the tomatoes are like double the size of a normal Roma.

[00:08:28]So, they're super productive. So, all the all the vegetables are $2 a piece.

[00:08:34]Just keep it super simple. And yes, during the open garden, I will have signs on each table that say this. All right. Here we have a $5. The two tables here, the rectangle tables are $5 tables, and they fall into the six for 20 category. Same as the landscape plugs. So, they're not all native. The variegated ostramia is from South America. We have flocks bride eyes which is native. Pernella varas which is a great perennial ground cover. Uh super seedi rebecia so plant at your own risk. Salvia which is a great self sewower. You can see it it flowers abundantly.

[00:09:14]Helanthus lemon queen which is a interspecific hybrid that has really beautiful flowers that butterflies love.

[00:09:22]My favorite picnanthemum. This is picnanthemum virginicum.

[00:09:27]Um, these labels didn't print the whole thing. It's deer resistant. It fills in gaps. It attracts pollinators, but it's not as aggressive as picna muticum.

[00:09:40]And we've got a great bee bomb. This one does get powdery mildew. Just full disclosure, but it's really nice. Um, this is clear grace manarda fistulosum. And it's a it's a strong grower. it. It's a strong grower, meaning five years down the line, you're going to be digging up and giving it to other people. That's what native plants do. Here we've got a picnanmudicum, which is the perennial plant from last year from PPA. It's it's not that it's super aggressive, it's just it does spread, but it's minty and the deer don't eat it and every pollinator loves it. But really the best plant for pollinators is manarda pontata. And these are seedlings. So this tends to be more of a self sewower than a perennial.

[00:10:30]Still a super knockout plant. Great flowers, good deer resistance. And honestly, when it's in bloom, you'll never see more pollinators on this plant and on this plant. They're just standouts if you're trying to attract pollinators to your garden.

[00:10:49]So this is the $10 table and the master gardeners bought a lot from here today.

[00:10:55]But so we have one manarda pankata left.

[00:10:57]We have a couple pranella varas. We've got a few flocks paniculada bright ice which is my favorite flocks. Got some Boltonia which is a really terrific.

[00:11:08]They call it false chamomile. It looks like a little daisy. And then more of the Helanths lemon queen. The helium of this lemon queen gets pretty tall unless you Chelsea chop it. And you could cut these way back if you wanted to when you when you transplant them. Uh but they will bloom in kind of late summer, early fall. And swallow tails and monarchs absolutely love these flowers.

[00:11:35]Well everybody, I have a mojito waiting for me. So I'm going to go back up to the patio. I'm going to get this video posted. And I do look forward to welcoming people on Saturday for the spring open garden. I'm also announcing that I'm not going to do a fall open garden. And this is really just due to my professional travel schedule. So, the thing that I usually do to sell poppy seeds is actually going to get moved to the weekend before Thanksgiving. And we're going to do it as a like a noon to 4 event where it's seed sale and then we do demonstrations on how to grow the poppy seeds so that people really get hands-on experience and understand the method for bed prep and seed sewing. So, that's going to be I think around the 23rd of November. I I need to actually look on a calendar, but I I did want to give you guys the heads up that I'm not going to do my normal September or early October fall open garden simply because I I just have so many trips and I'm I'm feeling overwhelmed. If I'm feeling overwhelmed, I'm not going to enjoy it and that defeats the purpose of doing it. So, I do hope you'll come out this Saturday for the spring open garden and then mark your calendars for the Saturday before Thanksgiving and that will be our big fall seed sale where we sell poppies and lark spur and nigella and other seasonally appropriate things that like colder weather.

[00:13:11]Well, as always everybody, thanks so much for watching and happy gardening. I hope to see you on Saturday. [music] >> [music]