The purpose of this sale:
My aim is to promote native plant gardening in our neighborhoods because gardening with natives is better for our watershed, our woodlands, and our wildlife, especially birds. Bringing together many growers selling a variety of plants makes it easier for neighborhood gardeners to find quality plants and encourages a greater demand for natives in the nursery industry. Native plant nurseries from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and D.C. will be hosted at the sale.
The sale is entirely organized and run by volunteers. No one makes money from it except the nurseries. The Church of St. Clement offers its parking lot (to hold the sale) for a modest honorarium. Christ the King Church (across Oakcrest Drive) offers its parking lot (to provide parking to customers) for a modest honorarium. Several of our friends and members of the Tree Stewards of Arlington/Alexandria assist in running the sale as volunteers. I organize these events as a labor of love to promote (a) native alternatives to invasive, exotic garden plants, (b) watershed-friendly gardening practices, and (c) creation of habitat for wildlife.
– Scott Knudsen, Organizer of the Northern Alexandria Native Plant Sale
The sale is entirely organized and run by volunteers. No one makes money from it except the nurseries. The Church of St. Clement offers its parking lot (to hold the sale) for a modest honorarium. Christ the King Church (across Oakcrest Drive) offers its parking lot (to provide parking to customers) for a modest honorarium. Several of our friends and members of the Tree Stewards of Arlington/Alexandria assist in running the sale as volunteers. I organize these events as a labor of love to promote (a) native alternatives to invasive, exotic garden plants, (b) watershed-friendly gardening practices, and (c) creation of habitat for wildlife.
– Scott Knudsen, Organizer of the Northern Alexandria Native Plant Sale
Rosa palustris are pink,
Viola sororia are blue,
Native plant gardens are better for our Bay,
And birds, bees, & butterflies, too!
The history of this sale:
I run this sale along with my wife Jennifer Pease. We live in Parkfairfax in Alexandria, very close to the sale's current location. I organized the first sale in Fall 2003 in Parkfairfax because I was worried about non-native invasive plants infesting our neighborhood woodlands and I wanted to provide native alternatives to my neighbors to promote environment-friendly gardening and habitat creation for wildlife.
The first sale was so successful that we decided to hold it again every spring and fall. In Fall 2014, we moved the sale from Parkfairfax to the Church of St. Clement, where it continues to this day. As of Fall 2024, Jennifer and I have organized this volunteer-driven, community native plant sale 40 times.
To contact me, please send an email to [email protected]. If you would like to receive advance notices of this sale, send me an email and write "Add me to native plant sale list" in the subject line & your name in the text. For news about this event and more about native plants, you can "like" the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/NorthernAlexandriaNativePlantSale.
– Scott Knudsen, Organizer of the Northern Alexandria Native Plant Sale
The first sale was so successful that we decided to hold it again every spring and fall. In Fall 2014, we moved the sale from Parkfairfax to the Church of St. Clement, where it continues to this day. As of Fall 2024, Jennifer and I have organized this volunteer-driven, community native plant sale 40 times.
To contact me, please send an email to [email protected]. If you would like to receive advance notices of this sale, send me an email and write "Add me to native plant sale list" in the subject line & your name in the text. For news about this event and more about native plants, you can "like" the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/NorthernAlexandriaNativePlantSale.
– Scott Knudsen, Organizer of the Northern Alexandria Native Plant Sale
