Friends School of Minnesota 1365 Englewood Avenue Saint Paul, MN 55104 TIME VALUE DATA Over 2,300 plant varieties 400 new plants Mother’s Day Rain Barrel Weekend Pre-order Special May 7, 8, 9 $59.95—see page 4 2010 FINDING THE SALE Minnesota State Fair FROM 35W FROM HWY 36 Grandstand E. HENNEPIN FROM HWY 280 LARPENTEUR AVENUE Free FROM HWY 280 Admission Friends School C O Plant Sale M O at the CLEVELAND AVE A SNELLING AVE V E Grandstand N 280 U E COMMONWEALTH DAN PATCH Main MIDWAY PKWY Gate 94 P 35W White Minn. Brooklyn Ctr Shoreview Bear Lake 694 State Fair 35E Coliseum COMO AVENUE Plymouth Crystal 94 Roseville 36 Snelling Ave. 694 E 494 169 Saint Paul U 280 N 394 35E E V 100 94 Minnetonka Minneapolis A Woodbury D Edina 494 EN N ERG 62 Y PA O RK Richfield DRIVE Eden 61 M 494 Prairie Y Saint Paul, 35W Inver Grove A Heights R Bloomington Eagan 52 Minnesota FROM 94 Shakopee 35E www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com Burnsville 21st Annual Friends School Plant Sale May 7, 8 and 9, 2010 Friday 11:00 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 half-price day at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand • Free admission • Free parking www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com [email protected] • 651-621-8930 Plant photos pages 28–34 PHOTO FROM COMMONS.WIKIMEDIA.ORG Contents Articles The Plant Sale fills the 66,000-square-foot Grandstand and overflows outside. Students and adult volunteers put it all together. About Friends School . .2 How to “Do” the Sale . .3 Garden Fair . .4 Try New Herbs, Veggies . .22 What’s New ThisYear? Farming Our Cities . .27 Plant Photos . .28–34 ore people than ever are plant- Plants on the Move Container Succulents . .43 ing vegetable and herb gardens We’ve moved some plants from one Map to the Sale . .back cover Mas urban farming takes off. section to another this year: Every peren- This year we’ve got all the tried and true nial that is a named variety of a native Sections edibles, plus we’ve added herbs and plant is now outside in the Native Wild Herbs . .5–7 vegetables from cultures around the world Flower section. We did this partly to make (see article, page 22). more room for new plants inside, but Rare and Unusual Plants . .8 We’ve also got a full page of succu- more because it bugged us that we had Perennials . .9–20 lents, plus a few more in the Rare Plants the same plants in two places. Now you’ll Daylilies . .12 booth. And we’re finally going to have find all the Butterfly Weed, Joe Pye Weed, some citrus, too—Satsuma mandarin and others outside. This includes the Hosta . .15 oranges and Persian limes. These are Prickly Pear hardy cactus as well as most Lilies . .17 trees that can spend the summer outside, then be brought of the ferns, which are now in the native Woodland Wild Water Plants . .20 in for the winter (see Indoor Plants, page 42). Flowers area. (Only the Japanese Painted and Japanese Vegetables . .21–24 We’ve got dozens of new kinds of hosta (page 15), and Wood ferns remain in the Perennials section). the Rare Plants booth is featuring a wide assortment of If a plant species was growing in Minnesota before Climbing Plants . .25–26 sought-after peonies from Hidden Springs Farm, plus Giant European settlement, according to the usda.gov database, Annuals . .35–44 Sequoia and Monkey Puzzle tree (page 8). you’ll now find it in the Native Wild Flower section. To help Hanging Baskets . .40 you get used to the new system, we’ve provided cross-refer- Sale Floorplan Indoor Plants . .42 ences in the Perennials section for each of the relocated The sale layout is basically unchanged from last year plants, directing you to the Native section. Succulents . .44 (see page 3.) The entrance and exit doors remain at the west To continue to support native plant enthusiasts, who Fruit . .45 end of the building. often want to grow species plants rather than cultivated Shrubs and Trees . .46–50 As you enter the sale, you’ll have a choice of heading left varieties, we have identified the species with the Minnesota Roses . .51 to the Perennials or right to Herbs. (Or stop at the Rare symbol ˜ and provided the plant source when available. Plants booth, just to the right of the entrance.) Another thing that annoyed us for years was the annual Native Wild Flowers . .52–56 Beyond the big center stairway, you’ll find the Annuals, grasses. Where did they belong, with the annuals or the Woodland . .55–56 Climbers and Vegetables where they were last year. grasses? Well, we made the decision: They’re now outside Ferns . .55 The Shrubs, Trees, Fruit and Roses are outside again this with the rest of the grasses. Grasses . .56–57 year, along the south side of the building, within a fenced Grasses are newly grouped in two categories: Annual and area you can access from either the center or east-end door. Perennial Grasses. The perennials include both natives and Index At the eastern end of that fenced area, you’ll find the ornamentals. Again, the native species are identified with Native Wild Flowers and Grasses, just outside the east door. By Common Name . .58 continued on page 2 By Latin Name . .59 2 Friends School Plant Sale • May 7–9, 2010 www.FriendsSchoolPlantSale.com Key Í Full sun ∏ Part sun/part shade Little School, Big Sale Ó Shade n behalf of all the students and staff tices that promote peace and community. talk with any of the student or family ç Attractive foliage at Friends School of Minnesota, thank Like many of the 85 Friends schools nation- volunteers working at the sale. ∫ Butterfly-friendly you for supporting our plant sale! wide, we are a progressive education school that Our plant sale started out on a single table † Cold-sensitive: O Many of you may be coming to the Friends believes children learn best through active, to help raise funds for scholarships and keep keep above 40° School Plant Sale for the first time and perhaps hands-on lessons. Conflict resolution, environ- tuition low. Twenty years later, the Friends Ç Culinary don’t know very much about the school or why mental education and the arts are highly valued School Plant Sale raises an amount equal to ´ Edible flowers we devote so much energy to such a large-scale at Friends School. nearly half of the $400,000 of tuition aid given ˝ Ground cover fundraiser. Most importantly, we believe learning each year to families with diverse socioeconom- ˙ Hummingbird-friendly Friends School is an independent Quaker should be joyful, requiring deep thinking and ic backgrounds. As an independent school, it is  Medicinal school in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood. We engaging multiple senses. If you are interested necessary we charge tuition, but over 30 per- ‰ Rock garden serve over 160 students in kindergarten through in learning more about Friends School of cent of our students receive need-based grants, Minnesota, I encourage you to explore our covering up to 90 percent of tuition. This ˜ 8th grade. Founded in 1988, we offer a strong Minnesota native website at www.fsmn.org. I also invite you to fundraiser allows us to honor our commitment å academic program grounded in values and prac- U.S. native to equality, diversity and accessibility. The Friends School Plant Sale now requires ß Saturday restock over 900 volunteers to make the sale a success. π Photo on pp. 28–34 We are proud that nearly every Friends School ¥ Toxic to humans family, along with hundreds of other volun- teers, help make the sale happen. We are also grateful to the core of very dedicated people who work year-round, year after year, to plan, order and organize the beautiful plants you About the purchase. The sale is a wonderful example of a alphabet community working together to do good work for an important cause. Throughout, we have alphabetized by the We thank you, sincerely, for your support, main common name of and invite you to visit Friends School of each plant, with variant Minnesota (or our website) and find out more common names about the little school behind the big sale. following the main com- mon name. —Lili Herbert, Head of School For example, you would find Foxglove followed by Foxglove, Strawberry. If you have trouble find- ing something, refer to continued from page 1 the index on pages What’s New 58–59. the Minnesota symbol ˜ and the source is provided. More Seeds The longer we do this sale, the more we real- ize that there are some plants that are really Thanks! meant to be direct-sown as seed into the gar- The Friends School den. Some of these are vegetables or annuals Plant Sale is put that we’ve never offered before, such as carrots, together by hundreds radishes and sunflowers. Others are ones we of volunteers. used to offer as seedlings, but this year are This catalog is offering as seed: particularly the members of the brought to you by: Ipomoea genus, which includes Morning Glories, Sara Barsel Cardinal Climber and Climbing Moonflower. Thomas Bolstad You’ll find the seeds on the tables alongside the There are over 2,300 varieties in this year’s sale, with some 290,000 individual items to choose from.