Vanderbilt Museum Volunteer Gardeners Sell Flowers, Shrubs and Trees to Benefit Gardens

The volunteer gardeners who beautify the grounds of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum will hold their second spring sale of perennials, annuals, shrubs and trees on Friday and Saturday, May 7 and 8.

The volunteers, many of them certified master gardeners, will hold the sale in the museum parking lot and answer gardening questions. Admission to the plant sale is free. 

Hours: Friday, May 7, from 1:00 to 5:00; Saturday, May 8, from 9:00 to 5:00.

The sale will benefit the museum gardens. The goal, said Bill Hall, a longtime volunteer who is coordinating the event, is to offer the finest quality flowers, shrubs and trees at the fairest prices,

Carol Ghiorsi Hart, executive director of the museum, said many of the three dozen volunteer gardeners have donated their time and skills for years: "We are grateful for their passion and commitment, which make the museum and grounds look spectacular."

Available stock will include potted flowers for an average of $6.00 to $7.00; rhododendrons for $12.00. Maple trees and Japanese red maples will sell for an average of $15.00; Knockout roses for $15.00; and flats of annuals for $12.00.

Shrubs for sale will include andromeda, azalea, rhododendrons, leucothoe, camellias, tree peony, gold thread cypress, PJM and purple gem rhododendrons, maple trees and dwarf spreading juniper. Perennials will include lupine, hellebores, fox glove and Oriental poppy.

Vegetable gardeners will find tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and zucchini. Annuals also will be featured, including flats of impatiens, begonias, gazania, salvia, nicotiana and marigolds. Hanging baskets of fuchsia, tuberous begonias, impatiens and ivy geraniums also will available. Geraniums, lantana, sweet potato vines, vinca, dracaena and coleus will be available in four-and-a-half-inch pots.