Spring Plant Sale
Member Preview – noon until 5pm, Friday, May 2
General sale – 10am until 4pm, Saturday, May 3 and Sunday, May 4
This year’s spring plant sale will feature trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, herbs, garden accessories as well as Holden cultivated wildflower varieties. Talk to the experts, tour the gardens and see plants in their mature state before selecting plants to enhance the home landscape. More than 25 vendors are expected to join us for this year’s sale, which will feature one-stop shopping and expert consultation. This year, Holden is working with Grimes Horticulture to feature the Garden Leaders – trees, shrub, annuals, perennials and herbs proven to do well in home gardens.
Pick of the Plants:
Our horticulturists are pleased to have selected the golden rain tree and the Valley Forge elm as this year’s special offer. A limited quantity of these trees will be available for sale on a first-come, first-serve at the Holden tent in front of the Warren H. Corning Visitor Center.
The Creation Station will be available for designing container combinations and learning about selecting appropriate containers, soils, and balancing colors, shapes and textures of plants for whatever end-location you have in mind.
Plant sale is also the perfect time to tour Holden’s gardens with our experts. The tour schedule includes:
Small Trees for the Home Landscape – noon-12:50pm, May 3
Wildflower Garden Tour – 1-1:50 pm, May 3
Magnolia Tour – 2-2:50pm, May 3 and May 4 )
Ornamental Shrubs for the Home Landscape – noon-12:50 pm, May 4
Wildflower Garden Tour – 1-1:50 pm, May 4
Dan Sammon, creator of the “Guardians of the Garden’ sculpture, will be demonstrating the skill of art-by-chainsaw. Sammon will also have a booth offering some of his creations
During the sale, non-members pay a special $3 reduced rate gate admission.
This is a rain or shine event.
Vendors Participating
Aqua Garden Art – hand-crafted rotary copper garden art sprinklers
Auburn Pointe Greenhouse – annuals, hanging baskets, garden cut flower bouquets
Avalon Gardens Nursery – native perennials, grasses, shrubs, specialty annuals
Blue Turtle Designs L.L.C. – metal garden art
Bremec Greenhouse and Nursery – annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs
Buckeye Perennials – native Ohio wildflowers, ferns, grasses
Carter's Greenhouse – orchid plants, herbs, ferns
Claridon Barns – arbors and planters wood
Dahlia Society of Ohio – dahlia tubers
Dan's Knotty Critters Chainsaw Carvings – chainsaw carvings
Daylilies and More – specialty daylilies, perennials, mother's day arrangements
Deepwood Industries – hanging baskets, geraniums
Franchi Sementi United States – vegetable, herb and flower seed
Girard Nurseries, Inc. – conifers
Grimes / Shreve – small and large plants
Holden Cultivated Wildflowers – variety of Holden's cultivated wildflowers
Holden Jams and Jellies – variety of flavors
Holden Museum Store – garden accessories and gifts
Joe's Tomatoes – tomato plants
Kridler Gardens – plants, garden accessories
Landscape Creations Nursery – flowering shrubs, dwarf conifers
Maple Ridge Nursery and Garden Center – woody plants, shrubs, trees
Mulberry Creek Herb Farm – unusual herbs, miniature perennials
Ohio Prairie Nursery – native "prairie plant" species
Patty’s Daylilies – potted daylilies
Rustic Forest – garden furniture, arbors, trellises
Please – no dogs in plant sale and food vendor area.