Shasta Chapter’s first-ever online Fall Native Plant Sale has just ended, and it’s been a huge success! The online platform worked very well, and native plant shoppers enjoyed browsing the photographs and descriptions online.
Photo by José Hernandez.
We sold nearly 700 plants, making this one of the most successful Shasta Chapter CNPS fall native plant sales ever!
We were blessed with beautiful weather for both pickup days, the pickup arrangements worked out perfectly, and our volunteers really stepped up to a whole new set of tasks to make sure everything ran smoothly. Most of our plants were in gallon-size pots, but once again, the smaller-size plants in 4-inch pots were popular.
Our best sellers were native shrubs. Top place went to toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia), and second place to the ever-popular redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Other top sellers were western columbine (Aquilegia formosa), white sage (Salvia apiana), narrow-leaved milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis), and several of the ceanothus cultivars. Surprise top-ten sell-outs were birch-leaved mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus betuloides), chaparral clematis (Clematis lasiantha), and the delightfully colorful ‘Purple Haze’ cultivar of California aster (Symphyotrichum chilensis).
-The Propagation Team
