My friend's first plant sale

My friend is having a plant sale next week. Guess it's a good way to get rid of all those extra seedlings and plants that you've been nurturing along but don't have a notion of planting out due to time and space constraints. I'll be taking some of my extras up to her to try and flog. It has to be said that we've already tried to give a lot of these plants away to people in our garden club (for free of course). But as we only have about 10 members, there is still more to be had.

I think my friend has lots of vegetable plants and some perennials and annuals. I have mostly perennials. I do have teasle seedlings which become these huge plants with lovely tactile flowerheads. They were used in the old days to comb out wool. I have Verbascum 'Violetta' which is a lovely purple verbascum -- one warning, if you live in a windy area a little staking will help keep the flower spikes upright. I find it a good alternative to Delphinium which I have a problem with due to the enormous slug population in my part of the world. They don't seem to bother the Verbascum too much. I have a couple of Geums, 'Mrs Bradshaw' is one, the species coccineum is the other. And I have Knautia, Melton's pastels and the species macedonica. It's a great plant.

So we'll see how it goes. I have this dream of selling a few plants from my home. I love talking about plants and sharing them as well, so it would be as much to meet kindred spirits as it would be to make a few bob to cover the cost of seeds and compost (if not more so).