Hundreds attend annual plant and garage sale
- Chris Abbott
- May 21
- 2 min read
Chris Abbott
Editor
The Simcoe and District Horticultural Society could not have asked for better weather for its annual plant and garage sale on May 10.
“It was cool this morning, but it’s perfect right now – not too hot,” said Helen Uren, president of the Simcoe and District Horticultural Society, in the Junior Farmers parking lot at the fairgrounds in Simcoe.
The outdoor plant sale included a section for Horticultural Society plant contributions, and many community tables, offering both affordable plants and garage sale items – and a wide variety, making it a good fundraiser for the society.
“Whatever is in their gardens, that’s what we’re selling.”
If horticultural society plants were not sold, Uren said there is a possibility some would go to the 20 community gardens planted by the society.
“This is kind of a community event,” said Uren, who added the garage sale element to a long-time plant sale tradition. “There’s quite a few people here and they’ve been coming since 7:30 (a.m.) - I got here at 7:25, and there were people setting up here before I got here.”
The event was scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m., finishing at 12 p.m.
Formerly at Wellington Park, it moved to Simcoe Composite before changing venues to the fairgrounds.
“This is a good spot because we could have as many (vendors) as we want and there’s good parking. And it’s accessible.”
The Simcoe and District Horticultural Society is an active group – they have an event at least once a month, except February, including a January potluck, March to May horticultural speakers (and May plant sale), June garden tour, July road trip, August flower show, September AGM, October Norfolk societies meeting, November bus trip, and December meeting.
“That’s generally what we do for the whole year, so we’re pretty busy. Extremely busy in May – Wednesday we went to Berkelbloem,” she added with a smile.
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