Master Gardeners work diligently from early spring to late fall to propagate and tend the plants in the greenhouse. Annual plant sales fund the Hill Country Master Gardener projects in Kerr, Bandera, Gillespie, and Kendall Counties. Money raised from the sale of our own HCMG-made rain barrels funds our annual scholarship awards.

Hill Country Master Gardeners
Annual Spring Plant and Rain Barrel Sale
Saturday, April 9, 2011 has come and gone!

  It was a beautiful Saturday for a plant sale.  Many months in the works, it was a full week, "daylight to dark", leading up to the sale, and Vickie Killeen and Anne Brown mustered the energy to pull it all together.  An army of HCMG volunteers arrived at 7 am to do some last minute grooming, carry the plants from the greenhouse, pot yard, and shadehouse to the parking lot where they grouped the plants and organized the markers and information sheets prepared by Cindy Anderson. And as always, shoppers arrived early to grab the choice native and adapted plants.

Setting up started early on Saturday morning   
 Left, Co-Chair Vickie Killeen leads the way

        Below, volunteers bring out plants by the wagon-load  
                     

And shoppers shopped . . .                      
                      










       
            
                                 

                                
     . . . for rain barrels, too
               
                                          
                                                                                  
    
     Picking up printed plant info and check-out was a breeze

Master Gardeners were right there to answer shoppers' questions 

  
 
and a happy crew they were!

    


   The HCMG Spring Plant and Rain Barrel sale was an unqualified success.

            Watch this site for information about our next sale!