Plant Science Department’s Annual Plant Sale

SUNY Cobleskill’s Plant Science Department will hold its annual Spring Plant Sale on Saturday, May 3 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sunday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Hodder Hall.

This year the sale will feature native wildflowers such as Cardinal Flower, Jacobs Ladder, and varieties of Heuchera. The student Plant Science Club will also be selling perennial plants and herbs. Heirloom vegetables and new varieties of vegetables will be on hand and include the Mule Team Tomato, Sungold Cherry tomato, Bonny Best Tomato, Mucho Nacho Pepper, Japanese Cucumber and Mammoth Red Cabbage. Unique shrubs such as the Japanese Hydrangea Blue Deckle, Teddy Bear Arborvitae, Black Lace Elderberry, OSO Easy Rose Peachy Cream and Paprika, Coppertina Weigela, Olga Mezitt Rhododendron and Royal Red Butterfly bush. Trees such as Honeylocust, Crabapple and new selections of Dogwood hybrids from Rutgers University will also be available. Many of these varieties are hard to find at local garden stores and greenhouses.

SUNY Cobleskill students in nursery management, floriculture and baccalaureate plant science program raised the various plants as part of greenhouse, nursery production or horticulture business management classes. Several supporters of the Plant Science Department donate starter plants that the students then finish growing. In return some of the plants left from the sale are donated to local charities.

The money raised from the two-day sale is used to help the department fund academic needs for classes as well as provide scholarships to students.
The sale is managed by Associate Professor Chris Cash (518-255-5246) and Visiting Professor Maria Provencher.