21 Ways of Looking at a Plant Sale
Looking Lush in the Rain; photo by Rod Riedel
I hate it when starting ten days out the weather forecast predicts rain for your Garden Club’s plant sale and you keep crossing your fingers all week that they are wrong because they HAVE BEEN WRONG a lot this year (or at least a little off, and enough to make you think they could be a LOT off) and the Saturday morning you were waiting for comes along and
DAMMIT, they were right.
Don’t you?
But freezing fingers and very wet feet are no obstacle to the joy of hanging out together.
Hilary Robinson and Anne Lehmann with first customer of the day, John Inmann
Pam Callahan & Patricia Waters chatting by the Mother’s Day bouquets
Very damp and very cheerful: Lauren Huyett, MaryPope, Joan Campbell, Susan Hurley, & PatriciaWaters
Beth Thut answering questions
Kathleen Kennedy, Lori Bratzler, and Susie Winstanley take the first cashiers shift
Early workers get the best donuts (brought by the Club President, every year) Sarah MacEachern, Patricia Waters, Pam Nelson, Tracy Lyne, Maryrose Sykes
Lisa MacDonnell and Joan Campbell
Melinda’s coral pink coat made her easy to spot, even among the flowers
Lots of good chat: Sharon Vinci & Wendy McNally in the left foreground, Hilary Robinson’s orange sou’wester on the right
Art Shots
Serena Crosina with an enviable selection
A customer’s wagon full of color
1887 Not for sale
Just one of many umbrellas on Saturday
The Shade section was especially vibrant this year, and always wins a place in the photo collection
I received so many photos of the Tool Shed! I decided to go with this one.
After purchase conversation: Dad: You’re going to share that with your brother, right? Son: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
CODA: The Children’s Corner
In recent years, the Garden Club has realized the potential for capitalizing on our Saturday-before-Mother’s-Day date by making available “impulse gifts” for our customers. Pre-made bouquets had sold out quickly two years in a row. And this year the Club added something new: a tent dubbed The Children’s Corner festooned with tiny watering cans, featuring wee glass vases, note cards and markers, and a selection of fresh flowers for little ones to make their own mini-arrangements for Mother’s Day. It was a soggy debut, but it earned so much admiration from club members and also the families who braved the morning deluge that it is likely to return next year! Creative thinking and implementation by Jenny Borden, Jennifer Stone, Lisa MacDonnell, and
Jenny Borden and Suzanne Bronson at the ready
So sweet! photo by Susie Winstanley
The magic at work: Jenny’s family showing how it’s done
Bonus Photo: Mini arrangements underway: Jenny Borden, Lisa MacDonnell, photo by Jennifer Stone
Many thanks to Rod Riedel, Lauren Huyett, Jennifer Stone, Susie Winstanley, and Hilary Robinson who provided photos for this post. Thank you thank you thank you!