Garage Sale Plants

Anyone one who knows me knows I’m a garage sale freak.

It starts Friday morning. I walk outside at the crack of dawn and get the paper. Or I make my dog Boomer get the paper—which she is happy to do for a Scooby snack.

I grab it and immediately turn to the ‘garage sale’ section. I generally look for sales located near my house because gas is now hovering around $4.80/gallon. Sometimes they’re on Friday, but mostly they are on Saturday.

Last Saturday I visited a garage sale and met a wonderful English couple. They’d just sold their house and were moving to the UK to retire. I caught a glimpse into their courtyard and I noticed some lovely potted plants. I hadn’t found anything that suited me at the sale so I started to walk to my car when something dawned on me. What will they do with all those potted plants when they go back to England? So I turned around and asked. The wife really didn’t know what to say because I don’t think she had given it much thought.

I gave her my phone number and told her to call me if she decided to sell them. Her husband Ian called me a few days later and said that they indeed had some plants they wanted to sell. This included a green house full of orchids. We made a date to view the plants that he wanted to sell.

My husband and I showed up at Ian’s house on Saturday and he pointed out various plants that he was willing to part with. What I found very endearing about this man was his relationship with his plants. He was spoke about them so fondly, especially the orchids. He knew every, well most every Latin name and growth habit and how they reproduce, the subtleties of color of each bloom, and when and how often they spiked.

So the following day, my husband, my youngest son, and I showed up with a utility trailer and a dolly and got to work boxing up and hauling orchids, ferns, philodendrons, brugmansia, and citrus trees

When all was said and done we ended up with 12-15 large potted plants, one small potted plant, twenty-five or so orchids and a new friend.

Ian kept a few plants to brighten up their new interim apartment. The apartment he will stay until he finished up his job and he and his wife take off back to the UK.

They leave in November. They said they would call me to see if I wanted to give the rest of his plants a home. Will I take them? What do you think?

 

Comments

[Kalyn]

How fun! Not only getting all the new plants but also meeting a new plant lover.

[Annie in Austin]

This could be the definition of proactive gardening, Chigiy - you were the solution to a problem before it was formulated!

Enjoy meeting all those new plants~

Annie at the Transplantable Rose

[chigiy]

Kalyn and Annie,
What more could I ask for? I got to go to a garage sale and buy plants.

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[Eve]

I am trying not to turn green with envy. You are a creative thinker! I don't know if I would have thought to ask.

[Garage Sale Guru]

Makes me wonder if you could sell or buy plants online. Guess you would have to consider the shipping. Certainly would be simple for local sales cause folks could just come by and pick up the plant. Anyway this is a site that lets you create your own online garage or yard sale. GarageSaleHomePage.com