53rd Annual Rock Garden Plant Show & Sale

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Sunday, May 5, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Soergel Orchards and Garden Center

I-79-Exit 73/PA-910, Brandt School Road, Wexford, PA 15090

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“Big Ideas for Small Plants!”

 

The Allegheny Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society (NARGS) will hold its 53rd annual Rock Garden Plant Show and Sale on Sunday, May 5, 2024 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Soergel Orchards and Garden Center. Enjoy gardening demonstrations, a juried table-top plant show, rock garden plant sale and raffle, and a photography show.  Admission is free. 

 

The event will be located behind the market on the patio and inside McIntosh Hall. Exhibits will display the wide range of beautiful and sometimes challenging plants local gardeners can grow in rock gardens and troughs, including alpine plants, native plants that grow in our region’s rocky soil, and miniature varieties of everyday garden plants such as hosta, ferns and irises. Anyone may enter an original plant display in the juried show.  See 2024 Show Rules and Classes for details.

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The plant sale will offer unique hardy perennials suitable for a rock garden or container in sun or shade, including miniature conifers, alpine plants, hardy dwarf ferns and iris. Chapter members will be available to help visitors select plants for their garden and container plantings.

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Hypertufa troughs and a wide variety of tufa rocks will be available for purchase, as well as the NARGS Handbook on Troughs and the 2022 book, The Crevice Garden, by Kenton Seth & Paul Spriggs.

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Presentations will be inside McIntosh Hall past the juried exhibit tables.

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• 11:00 a.m.     Trough Planting Demonstration - Learn the basics for planting a trough garden. From empty to complete--watch and learn about drainage, soil types, plant selection, and more. Gina Teams, NARGS member 

• 1:00 p.m.        Back Yard Propagation: Some things you should know - We will look at essential tips on plant propagation with an emphasis on what you can do at home with minimal expense and expertise. Bill Barnes, horticulturist, NARGS member