Friends School of Minnesota Non-profit Org. 1365 Englewood Avenue U.S. Postage Saint Paul, MN 55104 PAID FREE Twin Cities, MN Permit No. 1767 catalog Free bus rides to the sale! We’re coordinating with Metro Transit. Download a free round-trip ticket for your bus ride here: www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com/arriving FINDING THE SALE LARPENTEUR AVE. See page 2 for a detailed Plant Sale map KEY Open gate (area map, left) HOYT AVE. 36 Open gate (State Fair map, below) 35W Metro Transit bus stop SNELLING AVE. UNDERWOOD ST. SNELLING AVE. LARPENTEUR AVE. COOPER ST. MayMay 12,12, 13,13, 14,14, 20172017 RANDALL AVE. CLEVELAND AVE. Minnesota Mothers Day Weekend COMMONWEALTHH Mothers Day Weekend State Fair 280 COMO AVE. MinnesotaMinnesota StateState FairFair COSGROVE AVE DAN PATCH AVE. COMMONWEALTH DAN PATCH UNIVERSITY AVE. GrandstandGrandstand THE MIDWAY P CARNES AVE. 94 JUDSON AVE. FreeFree AdmissionAdmission LIGGETT ST. UNDERWOOD ST. CANFIELD ST. COMO AVE. SNELLING AVE. www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com 28th Annual Friends School Plant Sale May 12, 13, and 14, 2017 Friday 9:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M.• Saturday 10:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M. Sunday remaining plants one-third off 10:00 A.M.–2:00 P.M. At the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand • Free admission • Free parking www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com [email protected] • 651–621–8930 N WE Sale area inside the Grandstand S Sale Map CHECKOUT ENTRANCE REST REST ROOMS Tally ROOMS purchases Outdoor/ Free parking Indoor Annuals Perennials Plants It’s legal to park on non-posted streets ATM and there’s a large parking lot EXIT Pay for southwest of the Grandstand purchases Exit (it’s the Midway during the Fair). Master Minis INFO Gardeners Unusual Vegetables TerraceDESK Books Enter Volunteer and disability ENTER Herbs Vegetables entrance Curbside plant pickup Fruit Climbers Native Plants Grasses DAN PATCH AVENUE FENCE REST Info Tent ROOMS Fruit Shrubs, Trees, & Roses Peonies Hanging Bulbs & Bareroots Baskets Get wristbands Fenced-in sale area here MWGS Water plants and fish Garden Fair for sale here CHAMBERS STREET LIGGETTAVENUE Disability access NELSON STREET Work shops Call 651–621–8930 for more information. ATM Food vendors P CARNES AVENUE CONTENTS FEATURES PLANT LISTINGS PLANT LISTINGS What’s New This Year . .2 Herbs . .6–9 Climbing Plants . .41–42 About Friends School . .2 Miniatures & Succulents . .10–11 Fruit . .43–45 How to Do the Sale . .3 Vegetables . .12–18 Shrubs & Trees . .46–51 Garden Fair . .4 Unusual & Rare Plants . .19–20 Roses . .50 Workshops . .5 Perennials . .21–31 Native Plants . .52–56 Water Plants . .5 Daylilies . .24 Grasses . .56–57 A Protest Against Neonics . .9 Hosta . .25 A Note from Mr. Yuk . .9 Lilies . .28 Know Your Bees . .31 Annuals . .32–40 INDEX Edibles in Cold Climates . .45 Outdoor/Indoor Plants . .32–33 By Common Name . .58 Map to the Sale . .back cover Hanging Baskets . .40 By Latin Name . .59 2 Friends School Plant Sale • May 12–14, 2017 www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com What’s New in 2017 Water Plants Improved You’ll find them after the end of the Shrubs & Unusual & Rare Plants, This year, we are partnering with the Trees section, at the far end of the fenced-in page 19. This sought-after Minnesota Water Garden Society, who will be area. See the map on page 1. plant is not fully suited to selling a much wider range of water plants (and growing in the Twin Cities New Plants bog plants, and even fish) because our weather is too outside, between the There are over 420 new plants at the sale: hot in the summer. But we Garden Fair and the sale • 75 annuals, including three new colors of the know that some of you are entrance (look for the SuperCal hybrid petunias, which we highly from up north, where it’s perfectly happy, water lily on the sale map, recommend for garden performance. so we’re giving it another try. page 1). • 13 clematis (out of 16 new climbers total). More Master Gardeners Come talk to their • 16 fruit tree varieties. knowledgeable volunteers about all things beau- • 15 herbs, including four new scented geraniums. Master Gardeners from Ramsey County will tiful, damp, and growing. They’ll also be offer- • 19 miniatures, about a third of which are be outside in the Garden Fair until about 1:00 ing a free workshop on container water gardens, small-scale Under the Sea coleus. p.m. on Friday and Saturday, selling gardening Saturday at 12:30 p.m. in the Garden Fair. • 11 native plants, almost all with an eye to gloves and answering your gardening questions. how great they are for pollinators. A full listing of the plants they’ll be selling FREE bus rides to the sale! can be found on page 5. Payment will be made • 112 perennials (15 daylilies, 11 hosta, eight It’s not new this year, at their booth. iris, 20 lilies, 16 peonies). • 63 shrubs or trees (six azaleas, four cardinal but for the second time Looking Layout Changes bushes, eight hydrangeas, eight roses), plus we’re coordinating The Herbs section is just inside the sale three Korean spicebush (Viburnum carlesii) with Metro Transit to for a spot to entrance, so we can all be greeted by the aroma varieties that are hard to come by. offer free trips to the sale, including the new eat before of basil as we start shopping. • 41 unusual and rare plants, with more A Line rapid transit bus on Snelling Avenue, or after The Perennials section has returned to the martagon lilies, hellebores, peonies, a number right outside the main gate of the Minnesota far corner. Be sure to get back there; we’ve of interesting citrus trees, and several items State Fair. Download a free ticket for your the sale? noticed over the years that plants in that part from a new grower we found in Japan. round-trip bus ride here: Download a map of the room are often overlooked. • 58 vegetables (nine hot peppers, 10 new www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com/arriving tomatoes). Last year’s experiment with selling with area Miniatures & Succulents have a new spot Website Improvement restaurants from just to the left when you enter the sale, across seeds worked, except they were so popular When you use the Find Plants page on our web- the main aisle from Herbs. we sold out too early. We have increased the our website, site, you can now view up to 120 photos at once. The only other plants that have been moved quantities on just about everything. www.FriendsSchool And when you add a plant to your list, you won’t are the peonies. Though they are herbaceous PlantSale.com/ The Blue Poppy Is Back lose your place in the photo gallery. (It’s hard to perennials and they’re still listed in that sec- restaurants explain this, but check it out!) tion, they’re also a bit like shrubs, so we After several years of absence, we’ve brought —Friends School Plant Sale committee thought, Why not try putting them outside? back the blue poppy (Meconopsis betonicifolia) in About Friends School of Minnesota ow in our 29th year, Friends School of and abilities, come from two-parent, single-parent, Minnesota is an independent K–8 Quaker multiple-generation, adoptive, and same-sex-parent Nschool in the heart of St. Paul’s Midway neigh- families, from a wide range of economic backgrounds borhood. We are known for our progressive (32 percent receive up to 90 percent financial aid) and, curriculum, commitment to community, acclaimed increasingly, from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds conflict resolution program, joyful approach to educat- (37 percent students of color). We strive to strengthen ing children, and our amazing plant sale. our socioeconomic and racial/ethnic diversity, in par- At Friends School, we are dedicated to our mission: ticular, and the money raised at our plant sale supports to prepare children to embrace life, learning, and com- that. munity with hope, skill, understanding, and creativity. In addition to the Quaker values, Friends School is We are committed to the Quaker values of peace, jus- guided by the philosophy of progressive education. We tice, simplicity, and integrity. Our 165 students learn believe children learn best when they are engaged with from a hands-on curriculum in multi-age classrooms, real and meaningful ideas and materials, and work with class sizes ranging from 16 to 21 students. with others in a diverse community to solve problems It’s difficult to convey the depth of commitment our and answer questions. Students collaborate with each faculty, staff, and board have to Friends School of other experimenting, deliberating, and creating and Minnesota. For so many, this school and our mission constructing knowledge, while also evaluating learning are what we believe, celebrate, and hope for. We along the way. Students learn through writing, speak- believe that the experience each child has at our school ing, acting, creating in all of the arts, and teaching Students are here to help helps them become one more person making the others. We also emphasize environmental education world a better place. And we see proof of this from our and service learning starting in kindergarten. Service Friends School of Minnesota students learn alumni, who bring story after story of how they live learning includes active participation by our students valuable lessons through cooperative tasks in our mission in the next steps of their lives. We hear in running the plant sale (see side bar). all aspects of the sale. From helping unload from them how the core values of their education here Lots of folks first hear about Friends School because have helped to shape them as they become adults.