935 days ago

plants for sale

Sally from The Brook

I'm posting this on behalf of a friend who lives at the Brook Valley Holiday Park and has to leave in a few days. She has all these plants which she can't take with her so is putting them up for sale or for a donation.

* 16 geraniums 5-50 cm, mostly pink
• +10 karamu
• 11 Chilean guavas/NZ cranberry, cuttings
• +100 grapefruit 3-5 cm average grown from seed
• 50 feijoas PB5s, grown from seed of large feijoas.
• Few celery 6 seedling pack punnets
• Few parsley 6 seedling pack punnets
• 9 strawberry 6 pack seedling punnets
• 4 avocado 10 cm
• 13 apricots, about 10 cm high grown from kernel
• About 100 Italian strawberries - small ones with lots of runners
• 20 comfrey
• Rhubarb roots
• Arrowroot tubers.
• +50 loquots, max 10 cm, grown from seed
* 100 apples grown from seed mostly heirloom varieties up to 1 m high

I'm being evicted Sunday 6th August from the Brook Valley Holiday Park and need to declutter my plants ,
Please text only Pam Mander 027.389.7491 (Reception is unreliable)

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