2023 Pollinator Palooza Native Plant Sale

Date/time: Sunday, June 4, 2023, 10am – 2pm

Location: Oligny Garden Center, 390 Wilton-Gansevoort Road, Gansevoort

Parking: Across the street at 393 Wilton-Gansevoort Road

Payment by cash or check preferred

Native plants for native pollinators

Every garden, no matter how small, has an important role to play in protecting pollinators. Planting native plants is an essential part of creating food and habitat for our native pollinators. However, finding native plants can often be a challenge. The Pollinator Palooza native plant sale makes a variety of native plants available to gardeners in the Saratoga area.

Oligny’s greenhouse full of plants before last year’s sale

This family-friendly event includes

Native plants for sale
Information about native plants and pollinators
Free soil pH testing by Cornell Cooperative Extension (bring about 1/4 cup of dry soil)
Help with gardening questions
Regional organizations focused on native plants and ecosystems
Activities for children
Raffles to win books, gift certificates, plants, and more
NEW THIS YEAR: Food Trucks

Participating Regional Organizations

Animal League
Capital Region PRISM
Capital Region NY Wild Ones (will also have plants for sale)
Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners
Grow Amsterdam
Home Earth Alliance (will also have shrubs and trees for sale)
Saratoga PLAN
SoBro conservancy of Saratoga
Southern ADK Audubon Society
Oligny Garden Center will also have plants for sale

Grab something to eat at our new FOOD TRUCKS

It’s a labor of love

Thanks to the generous support of Oligny’s Greenhouse in Gansevoort, NY, all plants are raised locally, and lovingly cared for by Sustainable Saratoga volunteers.

Plants suited to local conditions

Offerings cover a variety of planting conditions, from sun to shade and dry to moist soil. The following plants will be available for purchase on June 4:

The potting crew just finishing up this year’s crop

Grasses/Sedges
Carex pensyvanica – Pennsylvania Sedge
Sporobolus heterolepis – Prairie Dropseed

Flowering Plants
Anaphalis margaritacea – Pearly Everlasting
Anemone virginiana – Thimbleweed
Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Weed
Asclepias verticillata – Whorled Milkweed
Blephila ciliata – Downy Wood Mint
Chelone glabra – White Turtlehead
Echinacea pallida – Pale Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea – Purple Coneflower
Eupatorium (Eutrochium) maculatum – Spotted Joe-Pye
Eupatorium perfoliatum – Boneset
Fragaria virginiana – Wild Strawberry
Geum triflorum – Prairie Smoke
Helianthus divaricatus – Woodland Sunflower
Lobelia cardinalis – Cardinal Flower
Monarda fistulosa – Wild Bergamont
Monarda punctata – Spotted Beebalm
Packera aurea – Golden Ragwort
Parthenium integrifolium – Wild Quinine
Phlox divaricata – Woodland Phlox
Polemonium reptans – Jacobs Ladder
Pycnanthemum muticum – Short-toothed Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum – Virginia Mountain Mint
Rudbeckia laciniata – Greenheaded Coneflower
Solidago arguta – Forest Goldenrod
Solidago flexicaulis – Zig-Zag Goldenrod
Solidago rugosa – Wrinkleleaf Goldenrod
Solidago speciosa – Showy Goldenrod
Symphyotrichum cordifolium – Blue Wood (Heart Leaved) Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium – Aromatic Aster
Tiarella cordifolia – Creeping Foamflower
Veronia noveboracensis –NY Ironweed
Veronicastrum virginicum – Culver’s Root

Download the PLANT LIST and bring it with you for easier shopping

Download our planting and care tip sheet

Event map

Please pull into the driveway ONLY for handicapped parking and to pick up plants you have purchased. See below for Parking map.

NEW Parking Information

Parking is across the street at 393 Wilton-Gansevoort Road. Slow down as you approach and look for signs and parking staff.

Please don’t pull into the driveway at Oligney’s Garden Center unless you have a handicap tag or are picking up plants after you purchase them at the sale.