By Trish Lyons, Plant Sale & Auction Committee Chairperson
Many thanks to everyone who helped make the Spring Plant Sale & Auction a success. It takes many people to pull this event together from getting publicity out, collecting donations from nurseries and garden centers, bringing food and beverages, helping with setup and breakdown, helping with pricing, recording auction prices, collecting the money, running credit cards, etc. Your help and hard work is greatly appreciated. We raised nearly $4,400 for the CHS Scholarship Fund!
The following nursery/garden centers generously donated to our auction. Please consider patronizing them when doing your garden shopping:
- Baggot Farms, East Windsor
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Bosco’s Garden Center, Simsbury
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Broken Arrow Nursery, Hamden
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Butler’s Florist & Garden Center, West Hartford
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Cheshire Nursery Garden Center, Cheshire
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Cricket Hill Garden, Thomaston
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E. Draghi & Sons Farm, South Glastonbury
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Garden Barn Nursery, Vernon
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Garden Sales, Manchester
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Gotta’s Farm, Portland
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Lemek Farm Greenhouse, Tolland
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Moscarillo’s, West Hartford
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Natureworks, Northford
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Plant Group, North Franklin
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Prides Corner Farms, Lebanon
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Revay’s Garden Center, Broad Brook
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Sam Bridge Nursery & Greenhouses, Greenwich
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Stonehedge Landscape & Garden Center, Newington
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Tower Farms, Cheshire
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Winterberry Gardens, Southington
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Woodland Gardens, Manchester
These wonderful wholesalers also contributed plants to our auction:
- Plant Group, North Franklin
- Summer Hill Nursery, Madison
Many thanks to Broken Arrow Nursery, Cricket Hill Garden and Natureworks for their very generous plant donations and for providing four of our terrific auctioneers: Chris Koppel, Dan Furman, Nancy DuBrule-Clemente and Kassie Moss. Rounding out the auctioneering crew were the educational and entertaining Maryanne Gryboski, Judy King and Kevin Wilcox.