The Friends of the Frelinghuysen Arboretum invite you to our Annual Plant Sale on the first weekend in May.
As in past years, there will be special early shopping — plus refreshments, door prizes and a plant dividend — for Members Only on Friday evening May 2nd from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Reservations required, so reserve a spot using our Google Form.
Throughout the sale you’ll be able to get advice from local plant experts and to select from a huge variety of houseplants, annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees. Preview the sale by signing up for free Zooms every Tuesday evening during the month before the sale. Details on our Events Page.
Volunteer Opportunities
Want to get involved and learn more about the plants at the sale? Volunteer to help us set up May 1-5 and during the sale May 5-7. See all the 2025 Plant Sale Volunteer Opportunities and sign up HERE.
Plant Sale 2024 Photos
Many thanks again to everyone who participated in the Friends’ 2024 Plant Sale, either by volunteering, organizing, advertising, purchasing plants, etc. Thanks to everyone, we had a very successful sale this year which will allow us to continue supporting The Frelinghuysen Arboretum with planting grants, grants for summer interns, etc. Here are just ...
Plant Sale Setup – 2024
The Plant Sale began in earnest Monday morning by putting shelving together and hanging lights before the “stars of the show’ (3,700 plants) arrived. The afternoon was spent organizing and tagging the plants for sale. We had fun. A very exciting start to a great Plant Sale!
So many plants and so little time! Here’s the link to the list on Google Sheets.
Once again, we couldn’t restrain ourselves and have ordered almost 400 different plant varieties so far for the upcoming sale.
Vines and Climbers at the Plant Sale
Among the many beautiful plants at this year’s plant sale, we are offering these beautiful vines and climbers.
Clematis Henryi
‘Henryi’ features profuse, showy, eight-sepaled, 6-8″ in diameter, white flowers with purplish brown anthers that cover this vine in summer. Bloom on this cultivar comes primarily from the previous year’s stems in early summer, but also occurs in a second flush later in the summer on the new (current year’s) growth.
Landscape Plugs at the Plant Sale
This year at the Annual Plant Sale Under the Tent the Friends will be selling Landscape Plugs.
Here are some of the benefits of using them instead of a larger container plants:
- Plants reach flowering size in their first season and have a high transplant ...
Plant Sales in the Tent
Pictures from past Plant Sales in the Tent.