Montreal botanical gardens plant show starts tomorrow!

18 years ago

Just a reminder to anyone that is interested - the plant show and sale at the Botanical Gardens starts tomorrow, and goes till Sunday. There're a few talks scheduled too. I don't think I'll go to them, but DH and I are going to the show on Saturday.

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I have managed to miss this every year, so I'm really looking forward to going for the first time!

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primula_que
18 years ago
So was I....except that it will be raining all week-end and I think I'll just be visiting the web pages of the wholesalers, etc. etc.
canoekid
18 years ago
I'll be there, rain or shine, can't wait...

canoekid.
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bumble_bee
18 years ago
I suggest you go early in the morning as the selection is better.

I'm just back. I bought several nice hostas I really wanted, a couple of clematis, a beautiful lilac form Frank Moro and a few small things. It's hard not to buy too much. There are so many beautiful plants to tempt us.
bonniepunch
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18 years ago
Saturday's weather is looking like it might work out - sun and clouds, with rain possible in the evening. And it might actually be warm!! Still though, I'm bringing an umbrella and a sweater...

We are planning to go on Saturday, and make a day of it wandering around the gardens too, so if the weather co-operates - whohoo!

Those of you that have been before - where in the gardens is it held? In the big space inside the front entry? By the insectarium?

BP
bumble_bee
18 years ago
The vendors are located along the the path (road) between the parking lot near the front entry and the main buildings.

If it stays like that, we can say the weather isn't bad for that kind of activity. Perfect for planting!
Video_Garden
18 years ago
Hey Guys! I went on Friday!

The weather wasn't bad - a bit of a light shower early morning but wandering through the nearby Japanese Garden in a cool misty fog in the cloudy afternoon was definately worth it! I got to smell a wisteria in bloom too (smells like jasmine in case anyone is wondering). The water plant area was also beautiful and I cannot wait to see all of the roses they have in bloom when I go back. I also bought a bunch of stuff! They were selling clematis's for $5 a pot (4cm). Some of the one's I purchased were 'Multi Blue', 'Duchess of Edinborough', 'Petit Faucon', 'Blue Moon', 'Niobe' etc... I bought about seven of them in total. I also bought two bareroot 'Blue Angel' hosta's. 'Wedding Band' daylily from the daylily nursery (They gave me a gift CD of daylilies too), two variegated Solomon's Seal plants (bareroot), A Lewisia (finally...)! Two Euphorbia's (Chameleon & another one supposedly more hardy here in Montreal), An old own root rose 'John Davis' - enormous size! And someone was really kind to give me a Peony seedling from the Peony society.

Things I wish I purchased but held back from in hopes of finding it elsewhere this summer: $15.00 for a small 4cm, pot of bloodroot, $25 dollars for a small 4cm pot of Martagon Lilies, $30 dollars for a pot of 'Himalayan Blue Poppies,' some Helleborus Niger selling for either $12 or $18 dollars, & countless fern plugs and lilac plugs selling for $5.oo dollars each for a 1" pot. Oh and then there was the Cimicifuga 'Pink Spike' for $22.00 and the Fern Leaf Peony ($35), - I really regret passing those two up right now....

Overall, I had a nice time, but I was expecting to visit a hundred nurseries/tents and it didn't appear as big as I thought it was going to be... Moreover, my wishlist (plants I had been looking for and hoped to find there) had not decreased at all from my visit. Oh well... I guess it's more about the search than the find!

So what did all you guys get! 8^)
bonniepunch
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18 years ago
Can you believe I didn't buy anything!?!

I went yesterday (Saturday), and the weather turned out to be perfect - no rain and it got up to 22C. We went and had a great look around. There were some great exhibitors, and some more mundane ones, but I found the prices to be fairly high - no bargains, and nothing that screamed "take me home". DH was kind of interested in the pots of papyrus, buy at $40, forget it! I mean, come on, folks, it's *papyrus*, not some rare thing! Although there was this one vine in a succulent seller's corner that strongly tempted us. It had flowers that were the size of a dinnerplate - I wish I knew what it was! We didn't get it because we couldn't get near the person running the booth to ask about it - the guy was being swamped by a good dozen people.

It was still a great day, even though I came home empty handed. After we checked the sale, we wandered over to the lilac patch and plunked ourselves down for a pic-nic lunch, then we wandered the alpine garden (my favourite), and had our breath blown away by a couple of Japanese flowering crabs in the Japanese pavilion. Holy cow, those were a nice trees!!

I'm glad I went, as I love to look at things, even if I don't buy, and of course, I love the gardens at any time :-)

BP

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