Sure kp, can post some info for you....This is the fourth year for our newly formed garden club. We have one fundraiser per year and it is the Garden Art Fair & Bake Sale. We have about 30 members. All are asked (not required) to make garden art or something related to gardening or baked goods and donate it to the club. We rent a school gym, set up tables, advertise for about a month and then sell everything that was donated. Last year, in about three hours, we brought in $1,300!. We do have unusual house plants and some garden plants, but we try and stay away from too much of that, as we want to be know for our garden art. We also do not wish to run into competition with our garden centers because they usually have their open houses the same weekend. It is a great fundraiser plus it keeps the members busy all year searching for new ideas and creating their art. It is so much fun to see what members come up with. Some of the things we sell: We have totems, silverware windchimes, mosaic work, stepping stones, garden aprons, bird feeders, hypertufa pots & mini gardens, birdhouses, butterfly houses, garden signs, garden baskets, decorated garden chairs, watering cans, garden books, plate flowers, garden crosses, a willow trellis, homemade jams & jellies (red hot pepper jelly, onion jelly, raspberry jam, homemade salsa, and many others. I will take pictures this year and post them if anyone is interested. No, we don't have other vendors, as this is our fundraiser. Past years, we have also hosted workshops every hour, on the hour, but the last few years, they have been less and less. Everyone who comes just wants to buy, so this year we aren't offering anything extra. It is great exposure for our club too. Many people come in and ask questions about gardening. We even pick up new members when they come to visit us. And I think our own members are our best customers! BUT we aren't allowed to buy anything until we open up the doors for the public. Becky

If Mt. Dora is doable for you, then you probably already have the sale noted on your calendar. But, in case it got overlooked, then just a reminder that this weekend, November 7 & 8, is the Mt, Dora event. I have no connection to the event or any exhibitors, I just love to look at plants and buy one or two. - it's cheaper than a co-pay to a therapist!! - LOL

The Dixon continues to celebrate its 40th anniversary with the Dixon Garden Fair – the gardening event of the spring season! This year’s annual sale will offer over 15,000 plants with a focus on rare, choice and unusual varieties as well as essential plants for the Mid-South shade garden. You will also find an extensive selection of herbs, ferns, succulents and herbaceous and Itoh peonies. This two-day event has something for plant enthusiasts at all levels and interests – from the beginning gardener to the certified plant nerd. Dixon members will have the opportunity to shop early at the Members-Only Preview Party April 21 from 4 – 7 p.m. The plant sale is open to the public Friday, April 22 and Saturday April 23 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dixon garden staff, Memphis Area Master Gardeners and local experts will be available to answer your gardening questions. For a sneak peek at this year’s plant selections, attend the Dixon’s Munch and Learn April 13. For more information, visit www.dixon.org. A comprehensive plant sale list will be available on the website in mid-April.

I have three SdlM, and no place to shoehorn in another rose. I've only recently become aware of Tipsy Imperial Concubine as something special, and didn't realize what a beauty it is. If its blooms are larger than SdlM then it must really be something. The good spots in my garden are all taken, as well as some not so good ones, and I had to get rid of Souvenir de St. Anne's to accommodate William R. Smith, although the spot will turn out to be too small in the end. St. Anne's shrivels here with just a little bit of sun, which is a pity. I can't bear to plant any more teas in Tea Rose Row, especially since my last WRS bit the dust there. nippstress, Krista, bpncrow, rosefolly, fduk, thanks so much for your wonderful words. Praise from my fellow rosarians here has real meaning for me. rosefolly, I love taking pictures, and my problem is rather that I tend to focus on the problems in my garden rather than enjoying the beauty that's also there. I'm working on that, though. Melissa, you've found a jewel of a helper and I'm really happy for you. The chances of finding someone like that here are very slim. Truth be told, loner that I am I prefer to have the garden all to myself except of course my DH.