Two Big Plant Sales on the East End This Weekend

Two big plant sales are going on this weekend on the East End to benefit local nonprofits: the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons and North Fork Audubon Society.

The Horticultural Alliance’s annual garden fair runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday with annuals, perennials, roses, shrubs, trees, tropicals, vines, edibles, natives deer resistant plants and many plants for pollinators for sale. Admission to the sale at the Bridgehampton Community House at 2357 Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton is free, though admission to the preview sale and auction on Friday, May 19, from 5 to 7 p.m. is $50 in advance or $60 at the door. Visit hahgarden.org/gardenfair for more information.

North Fork Audubon Society’s spring native plant sale runs Saturday, May 20, and Sunday, May 21, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. both days at the Roy Latham Nature Center at Inlet Pond County Park, located at 65275 County Route 48 in Greenport.

The native plant sale, held twice a year, is designed to make finding native plants on the East End a little easier. Eighty species of plants native to the northeastern United States and locally grown by Glover Perennials — many of which are drought tolerant and deer resistant — will be showcased outdoors.

The nature center’s rain garden showcases some of the species for sale thriving in a sustainable landscape, including blue flag iris.

“Watching natural woodlands and fields vanish across the East End, many bird lovers are rewilding home landscapes with native plants vital to birds and insects,” the North Fork Audubon Society states. “Wildlife numbers are plummeting as their habitats — both food and shelter — disappear. That’s why NFAS is helping people learn to replace old invasive plant species — such as privet and Japanese barberry — with better choices like native chokeberries and winterberries that feed insect pollinators and migrating birds.

Proceeds from the sale support efforts to rewild Inlet Pond County Park with native trees.

Admission is free. Information on Berries for Birds, a new NFAS initiative in partnership with Dr. Douglas Tallamy’s Homegrown National Park, will be available at the plant sale, too.