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Tag: Plant Swap

  • Saturday, June 6, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon – New England Plant Swap Cancelled

    There is no way this event could be run safely this year, and regretfully the Plant Swap has been cancelled.

    Bring a Plant, Take a Plant – Bring Many, Take Many!  Sharing is one of the best parts of gardening, and if you haven’t beeen to a good, old-fashioned plant swap you’re in for a treat.  The New England Plant Swap will take place Saturday, June 6, from 9 – noon at Adams Farm, 999 North Street in Walpole.  Pot up your excess prized plants to share, split your bulbs, thin your annuals.  Load up your bounty and plan to arrive before 9 am.  There, you will meet other local gardeners with their booty to share.  One on one trading starts at 9, and at around 9:30, we go in rounds. At the end, because the farm must be left clean, everybody gets plants! Gently used tools, books, art, containers, and supplies are very popular, too. Please label! For more information visit https://newenglandplantswap.wordpress.com/

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  • Sunday, September 15 – Native Plant Trust Members’ Plant Exchange

    As if you needed yet another reason to join The Native Plant Trust, the upcoming Members’ Plant Exchange on September 15 may be the impetus you need. The rain or shine event at Garden in the Woods, 180 Hemenway Road in Framingham, brings members together, each bringing at least one potted and identified plant to swap with other members. Native species are encouraged but not essential. However, no invasives! Anyone toting in a pot of Japanese bittersweet will be publicly shamed and pilloried. Start time and details will be sent after registration, and to register, you must be a member. To join, visit http://nativeplanttrust.org. To register, call 508-877-7630, x 3801, or email specialevents@nativeplanttrust.org.

  • Saturday, September 13, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – 8th Annual Harvest Festival and Perennial Divide

    The Boston Natural Areas Network will hold its 8th Annual Harvest Festival & Perennial Divide on Saturday, September 13, from 10 – 2 at City Natives, 30 Edgewater Drive in Mattapan. Bring plants to swap and containers to carry them home. You’re invited to exchange, donate or simply take home plants. Shop for hard-to-find native plants, fall gardening supplies, soil amendments, cover crop and season extension supplies, and enjoy the harvest season with fellow gardeners. Image from www.commonweeder.com. For more information visit www.bostonnatural.org. 

  • Saturday, September 26, 10 am – 2 pm – Fall Harvest Festival and Perennial Swap

    Bring plants to swap and share, get gardening advice, or bring your over-sized produce to enter in the Incredible Crop Olympics, at Boston Natural Areas Network’s Fall Harvest Festival and Perennial Divide, Saturday, September 26, from 10 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon, at BNAN’s City Natives Nursery, 30 Edgewater Drive in Mattapan.  Admission is free.   Divide your crowded perennials and bring pre-divided plants to the free plant swap.  Bring your own containers. Volunteers will answer plant care questions, and you may purchase fresh, local produce and native plants.  Tour the vegetable display beds and visit the woodland garden.

    Boston Natural Areas Network (BNAN), organized in 1977, works to preserve, expand and improve urban open space through community organizing, acquisition, ownership, programming, development and management of special kinds of urban land –

    In all of its endeavors, BNAN is guided by local citizens advocating for their open spaces and assisting them to preserve and shape their communities.

    For more information, call 617-542-7696, or email info@bostonnatural.org.