The Garden Room Events 2024

Ashby Community Bring & Buy Plant Sale

Saturday 8 June 9:30-11.00am at Holy Trinity Ashby, Kilwardby Street, LE65 2FR.

It's not too late to grow something beautiful this summer!

We'd love to invite you to come to our second Bring & Buy plant sale of the year, on the morning of Saturday 8 June.

Maybe you are still looking fill a few spots in your garden or allotment - or have some spare plants you'd like to donate, that we can sell to help us raise funds for the project.

You are welcome to bring along any plants you have to donate on the morning, but please don’t worry if you don’t have any plants to bring. Just come along and join in!

We’ll also be running a pop-up cafe at the back of church, serving free tea and coffee and homemade cake.

All plant sales and donations received will help us grow more good things in our community this year.

Sow Good Update

We are so grateful to everyone who has offered to grow or donate plants for us this year to grow in our growing spaces, or sell to help us raise funds for The Garden Room.

Whether you have sowed some of our varieties from the community seed bank, sowed extra seeds for us from your own supplies when you have been sowing your own, or divided garden plants early in the season to multiply what you have, in order to donate them, we're so thankful for your help.

Bring & Buy Plant Sale - Saturday 8 June 9:30-11:00am at Holy Trinity Ashby

We'd love to invite you to bring your plants along on the morning of the plant sale on Saturday 8 June.

There is no need to label individual pots where you have lots of one variety, but please label at least one of each group of plants of the same variety, so that we know what they are!

Parking on Plant Sale Day

On street parking is available close to the church, but unfortunately, we do not have parking available on site. 

If you have a lot of plants to bring, and would appreciate some assistance in transporting them from your car to church on the morning of the plant sale please park your car on the street nearby and come and ask us for some help. Someone will be available to help any time from 9am. One of our volunteers would be glad to bring our trolley to your car to help you unload the plants, if you have more than you are able to carry.

What will happen to the plants I donate?

All the plants which are donated to us will be received on arrival by one of our volunteers.

We will put all plants we can use ourselves to one side immediately - and these plants will not be offered for sale.

Our intention is to plant everything we can use and can find room for, in the next couple of weeks.

Plants will be grown on either in one of our growing spaces, or in extra spaces where we may be able to secure permission to grow this year.

We are looking forward to growing lots of flowers and food which we can give away and share with our community this summer.

Where we receive plants that we are unable to use ourselves (eg. If we are given 100x courgette plants, that's too many - even for us!) we may keep some back and offer others for sale.

Plant Sale Prices

We believe in living generously.

It's been our experience since we started The Garden Room that where we offer seeds for free, or plants for sale at affordable prices and free tea, coffee and cake, we often end up receiving more in donations than we would have received, if we had charged average garden centre prices, charged for entry to our seed swap, or asked people to pay for their cup of tea. 

Selling plants affordably also often leads to people paying that forward wherever they can - and helping us in other ways, eg. with their time, gifts and skills.

If you see any plants you have donated for sale at prices which you feel are lower than you might have hoped, please know that it's not because we do not value what you have grown.

It's because the real value of what you have grown is so much more than its price tag.

In a world that desperately needs more beauty - and more good things to eat, connecting more plants with more people can only be a good thing!

Selling plants affordably so that prices are within reach for most people who might want to grow them helps us build The Garden Room community by making gardening accessible to more people.

Whilst we run our Bring & Buy Plant Sales partly to help us raise money, the money is never the most important thing.

All that said, we're so grateful when people come along, bring and buy lots of plants, have plenty of tea and cake and are able to give generously.

We can't wait to see what you have grown for us - and look forward to seeing you soon!





Sarah Phillips
Project Co-ordinator
The Garden Room
 

How to get in touch

Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. The best way to reach us by email thegardenroom@trinityashby.net or by texting The Garden Room mobile: 07763 004944.  
 

About Us

These events are being hosted by local community gardening project The Garden Room - and are part of a series of Saturday morning events in 2024. We run two growing spaces in Ashby where we grow cut flowers and fresh fruit and veg that we share with our community, to bring joy and make people smile. We welcome new volunteers and if you’d like to grow with us this year, we’d love to meet you. Find out more about The Garden Room