Category: Plant Sale

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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.

Details about the Members Plant Dividends are here.

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 ...

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  • 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!

    Plant Sale in the Tent logo
    Plant Sale in the Tent

    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.

    Read more...


  • 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
    Clematis Henryi

    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.

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  • 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 ...
    Read more...


  • Plant Sales in the Tent

    Pictures from past Plant Sales in the Tent.

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    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 a few shots of this year’s sale.

    Many thanks to volunteer and Member, Ann Mauro, for her great photos!

    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!

    Thanks to Heather Emelander for these nice pictures of the activities.

    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
    Clematis Henryi

    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.

    Continue reading “Vines and Climbers at the Plant Sale”

    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 success rate.
    • Reduced labor costs for installation
    • Compact size is easy to transport with reduced handling costs
    • Reduced waste on the job site
    • Root channels, tapered cells and drainage holes direct roots to one point for air pruning, resulting in dramatically reduced root circling.
    • Reduced growing medium creates optimal root density for quicker establishment in native soil
    • Easy to plant under existing trees with minimal root disturbance.
    • Easier to fill in gaps in existing plantings.
    • Economical option for large green infrastructure and stormwater management projects.

    Below are the selections you’ll be able to choose from:

    Aster cordifolius 

    Aster novi-belgii 

    Carex pensylvanica 

    Echinacea purpurea 

    Eupatorium dub. Little Joe 

    Heuchera villosa Bronze Wave 

    Iris versicolor Purple Flame 

    Monarda didyma Jacob Cline 

    Pycnanthemum muticum 

    Solidago Solar Cascade 

    Viola Silver Gem 

    Detailed descriptions and photos may be found here.

    Landscape Plugs at the Plant Sale

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    WE ARE OVERFLOWING WITH GRATITUDE!

    Thank you so much to everyone who purchased plants at last weekend’s sale, as well as to Morris County Park Commission and Friends staff. A very special thanks goes out to our many wonderful, hard working and tireless volunteers for making this a very successful plant sale. We couldn’t have done it without you!

    The Plant Sale Committee 5/8/24


  • 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 ...

    Read more...


  • 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!

    Plant Sale in the Tent logo
    Plant Sale in the Tent

    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.

    Read more...


  • 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
    Clematis Henryi

    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.

    Read more...


  • 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 ...
    Read more...


  • Plant Sales in the Tent

    Pictures from past Plant Sales in the Tent.

    Read more...


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