A long queue of keen gardeners was lined up by 8:30, waiting for the Growing Friends to open shop. Some knew exactly what they wanted and some were happy for one of the ‘Ask me’ Growing Friends to make suggestions about what would be best to fill that gap in their garden. There was even someone who had moved out of a Mr Fluffy house and had to re-establish an entire garden.

There were very few plants left when we closed 'the gates' at 11am. Whilst we could have sold more Banksias and Grevilleas, we had over-achieved in our propagation of Hakeas. However, the mix of plants is different in each sale, as we need to work with the material which is available in the gardens for us to use.

More than $6,800 was raised, all of which will go towards Friends projects. And there will be plenty of plants for sale again by 10^th November, when the spring plant sale will take place.