This plant sale will be at our home so you can see many of them planted to help you decide which you want. I will have shade and sun perennials, trees and shrubs dug from my own yard as well as annuals and herbs for sale in small pots. We also will have jewelry, fabrics, clothing, art, home goods from the countries I have traveled for sale!!! Marie Chieppo, owner of EcoPlant Plans, ecoplantplans.com, is giving a wonderful lecture on Sustainable Gardening Practices with Native Plants.

Event starts at 10am, lecture is at 11am.  Registration link is online here.  All ticket and sales proceeds go to benefit Let’s Save the Strays International.  Entrance fees include a raffle of many items including a beautiful Japanese maple tree worth $200 and admission to the lecture with Marie Chieppo, Master Gardener and owner of Ecoplant Plans, native garden specialist.

Marie Chieppo is a native plant designer and horticulturalist who works with nature to create beautiful landscapes with maximum function for living organisms. For 23 years she has incorporated thousands of native plants in residential, commercial and public settings.

Marie has a Masters in Public Health degree which led her to her position as the researcher for the Editor in Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine. In the realization that being outdoors was where she desires to be, she became a Master Gardener in 1999.

For the next 19 years, through her business EcoPlantPlans, LLC, she and a crew of skillful women, designed, installed and maintained beautiful gardens and landscapes. After earning an advanced certificate in native plant design and horticulture, at The Native Plant Trust, she joined the Sustainability Committee at the Association of Professional Landscape Designers and became certified as Landscape Designer through the Garden Federation. Most recently, she became an Accredited Organic Landcare Professional though the Northeast Organic Farmer’s Association’s (NOFA) Organic Landcare Program.

All the proceeds will benefit my new nonprofit, Let’s Save the Strays International which focuses on spay neuter vaccine programs in underserved countries.

SHOP TILL YA DROP AND SAVE LIVES ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!!!