2011 Catalog
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Friends School of Minnesota sharing the 1365 Englewood Avenue Fairgrounds with Saint Paul, MN 55104 TIME VALUE DATA sharing the Fairgrounds with Mother’s Day Weekend See pages 3 and 43 May 6, 7, 8, 2011 FINDING THE SALE LARPENTEUR AVE. See page 2 for a detailed Plant Sale map Minnesota KEY State Fair Open gate (area map, left) HOYT AVE. Grandstand Open gate (State Fair map, below) 36 35W Shuttle bus stop Sat. & Sun. Free Admission Metro Transit bus stop SNELLING AVE. UNDERWOOD ST. UNDERWOOD SNELLING AVE. LARPENTEUR AVE. COOPER ST. RANDALL AVE. FOX LOT CLEVELAND AVE. ROBIN LOT Blanket Flower COMMONWEALTHTH Minnesota State Fair P Gaillardia ‘Tizzy’ Page 11 (P073) COMO AVE. 280 GIRAFFE LOT COSGROVE AVE COSGROVE DAN PATCH AVE. Main COMMONWEALTH DAN PATCH Gate UNIVERSITY AVE. MIDWAY closed P CARNES AVE. to cars 94 JUDSON AVE. LIGGETT ST. UNDERWOOD ST. UNDERWOOD CANFIELD ST. COMO AVE. NEW WEBSITE: www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com SNELLING AVE. 22nd Annual Friends School Plant Sale May 6, 7, and 8, 2011 Friday 9:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M.• Saturday 10:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M. Sunday 12:00 NOON–4:00 P.M. Sunday is discount day—one-third off at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand • Free admission • Free parking www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com [email protected] • 651-621-8930 Please ReadThis C. PHOTO BY PLANT SALE SHOPPER ROBERTA RELIANCE PEACH. YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU DID Timing: It matters! Last year on Friday morning there were several • Along with your clipboard and a tally sheet, you thousand people at opening. But not everyone has to will be given a map that shows exactly which shop then! Each time at the sale has its own rhythm, numbers are on what tables. Use it. so pick the one that fits you best: • Some perennials, sold as bareroots or bulbs, are • Friday a.m. Plants are fresh, selection is great. bagged and shelved in the Bulbs & Bareroot section There will be crowds and waiting outside, so come west of the Perennials section. with a friend and enjoy it. • If you need directions, ask a volunteer. Look for green • Friday p.m. Our favorite time. Relaxed, little waiting, aprons, tie-dyed shirts, pink hats, and Ask Me! tags. and lots of plants, although some will be sold out. On the day of the sale • Saturday a.m. A little quieter than Friday morn- • If you come in the morning, dress for the weather ing. Two-thirds of the plant choices are restocked because you will be outside. Get a wristband. While you early on Saturday morning, so the selection should wait for your wristband number to be called, visit the Contents be excellent. All this and a ragtime band too! Garden Fair, talk with friends, or listen to • Saturday p.m. The quietest time, but ARTICLES music. There’s plenty of time to get to there will still be plenty of the entrance when your number is How to “Do” the Sale . .2 wonderful plants. Good for called over the loud speaker What’s New for 2011 . .3 people who don’t make lists or (which will be louder this year). About Friends School . .3 don’t like crowds. • Leave enough time to shop. Garden Fair . .4 • Sunday Great plants at great With 2½ acres to cover, it can Why No Zone Numbers? . .7 prices (1/3 off) means you easily take a couple of hours to Perennial Edibles . .22 will have company. Check the see everything. Plan ahead. Planting for Birds . .27 website Saturday night for • Please remember to write Build a Coldframe . .38 updates on remaining plant down everything you buy, with Map to the Sale . .back cover availability. plant number and price, as you shop. If you want to be more involved in the The price of each plant is on the signs. PLANT LISTINGS sale, you can sign up to volunteer for four hours (www.volunteer.friendsschoolplantsale.com) Lines: We have them! Herbs . .5–7 and buy your plants at the volunteer-only pre-sale on (But only some of the time.) The checkout line seems Rare and Unusual Plants . .8–9 Thursday evening. to peak between two and three hours after the sale Perennials . .10–20 Daylilies . .12 Carts: Bring your own opens. It may look long but it moves, in the words of one shopper, “freaky fast.” When you’re done shopping, Hosta . .15 You may be able to borrow one of our 400 carts just if you see there is a checkout line, look for the volun- Lilies . .17 as you enter the door of the Grandstand, but you’ll be teer holding the “Enter Line Here” sign. At the busiest Water Plants . .20 glad if you bring your own wheeled cart or wagon times, the line may go out the East door, past the Vegetables . .21–24 (please, no sleds or trains). Vegetables, so look there. Volunteers will direct you. Climbing Plants . .25–26 Organization: The Grandstand is very big Annuals . .28–36 Everyone is a volunteer • Plants are separated into 11 sections: Hanging Baskets . .33 This is a school fundraising event put on entirely by Inside: Annual, Perennial, Vegetable, Herb, Indoor Plants . .35 donated efforts. Take a moment to look around you Climber, and Rare & Unusual. Succulents . .36 and realize that everyone working is freely giving Outside: Natives, Grasses, Roses, Fruits, and Fruit . .37–38 his/her time and abilities. Let’s celebrate what a Trees & Shrubs. Roses . .39 group of people working together toward a common • Within each section, plants have numbers in Shrubs and Trees . .40–43 goal can create with a great idea, a ton of elbow alphabetical order by their common name, and Native Wild Flowers . .44–48 grease, and a little luck! those numbers wrap sequentially around, either on Grasses . .48–49 tables or on the ground, all clearly marked. INDEX Maps and more about “doing” the sale, page 2 By Common Name . .50 What’s new for 2011, page 3 By Latin Name . .51 2 Friends School Plant Sale • May 6–8, 2011 www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com N REST CHECKOUT ENTRANCE REST ROOMS ROOMS Hanging Baskets Hanging Baskets WE P Order Water Plants Indoor Plants Succulents tallying S Perennials ATM Annuals EXIT Cashiers Bulbs & Bareroots INFO DESK Climbers Rare Price Check, Master Gardeners Vegetables East door Herbs Vegetables Volunteer Curbside plant pickup ENTER entrance Fruit Roses Natives Grasses only DAN PATCH AVENUE Fruit Shrubs and Trees Get wristbands GRANDSTAND here Garden REST Fair ROOMS CHAMBERS STREET LIGGETT AVENUE NELSON STREET P not an entrance CARNES AVENUE CARNES AVENUE SHUTTLE BUS TO LIVING GREEN EXPO AND PARKING LOTS (SATURDAY AND SUNDAY) Getting to the Sale More on checking out Wristbands • The main gate on Snelling will be closed to • Checkout is a two-step process: Your plants are cars! (Pedestrians can use the gate). Every other added up at one table, then you pay at the cashier each morning entrance will be open. See the back-page map. tables. Before the sale opens and after opening, Recommended routes: • You can pay with cash, check or credit/debit until the number of people wanting to get • Como Ave. to Canfield (from the south or east) card (Visa, Mastercard, or Discover and new this in lets up, shoppers are given a numbered paper wristband as they arrive (one per • Cleveland Ave. to Commonwealth, which turns year: American Express). There is an ATM between person). into Dan Patch Ave. (from the west) the tally tables and the cashiers. • Larpenteur Ave. to Underwood (from • You may be able to move through the This means you don’t have to stand in line the entire time. Wristbands are the north) cashier lines more quickly if you pay by distributed starting at: • Parking at the State Fair is check or exact change (or round • Friday: 7:00 a.m. (sale opens at 9:00) free. It’s legal to park on non- up your payment, see the ad, page • Saturday: 8:30 a.m. (sale opens at 37). Checks should be made out posted streets, and there are 10:00) to Friends School of Minnesota large lots southwest (it’s the • Sunday: 9:00 a.m. (sale opens at noon) Midway during the Fair) and or FSM. Once the sale opens, you will enter the • New this year: Rare Plants will northwest of the Grandstand. building in a group, according to the have its own cashier. You must • Handicapped parking is on number on your wristband. purchase any rare plants at the time the east side of the Grandstand on If you arrive early, plan to visit our outdoor you select them. Then take your Nelson Street and also along Carnes Garden Fair after picking up your wristband plants with you during the rest of your Avenue, south of the Grandstand. Watch (see page 4 for more on the Garden Fair). shopping. for the signs. The free Metro Transit shuttle If you have been waiting elsewhere or • After checkout, you can leave your plants at bus on Saturday and Sunday will have a stop next to visiting Living Green Expo or the Garden Fair, Curbside Plant Pickup west of the Grandstand and the handicapped parking on Nelson Street. If you’re please plan to be near the entrance at the return to pick them up in your car. (If you used one of west end of the Grandstand in time to line concerned about physical accessibility to the Plant Sale, our shopping carts you cannot take the cart to your car.) up with your group. Don’t worry…we’ll have please call us at 651-621-8930 and we’ll call you back volunteers to help.