Palm Beach Rare Fruit Council Plant Sale

[VUgearhead]

Coming up Saturday May 20 at the fairgrounds. Anyone been to one of these before, and is it worth my time?

[ras954]

I've done the Broward version of this event, it was good.

They published a plant list for the Broward event:
http://www.rfvcbroward.org/plantsalelist.html

In addition they had some nice Jam's and Jellies for $3 like Soursop,  Jaboticaba, etc.

If you have time and don't live too fat...go

[palmcity]

3 days till Event per post #1. I'm sort of surprised not more information and support from members of PBRFC  trying to get forum members to visit the Fairgrounds for the plant sale.

I was at one of the events 4-5 years ago and quite a few vendors attended.

I read last year that many of the same vendors no longer participated.
I'm always interested in mango trees and wanted to know what type of selection will be available if I decide to visit this Sat. Also, what price for 3 and 7 gallon mango trees available this Sat.

Of course let us all know if the mango trees sales have been replaced by something like petunias this year.   

[TREESNMORE]

I will be there bringing about 200 trees. Should be a lot of different things there along with a lot of mangos and avocado . Mr. clean you know any of the new vendors .

[johnb51]

Do you think anyone will be selling jaboticaba?  That's what I'm looking for.

[Mr. Clean]

Do you think anyone will be selling jaboticaba?  That's what I'm looking for.

I've seen Jaboticaba there in past years.

[VUgearhead]

Wow, just wow.

I got there about 15 minutes before opening, and the line was already quite long (maybe 50 yds. long). Fortunately they had a map of the aisle layouts, but what can I say...

It was like Black Friday. Literally, people were running around grabbing trees. By the time I got to the far end of the first aisle I walked down, it looked picked over by vultures. Yes, there were still some decent trees left. It made it much easier to fight the 'eyes are bigger than my stomach' syndrome than I thought I would be suffering from.

The annonas were selling slow right inside the entrance. If you want one, go get 'em. Everything else, tree-wise is pretty well picked over. Lots of herbs/edible plants left too.

Got a pomogranate for my daughter and a small moringa tree to try out.

Runs until 2.

[johnb51]

Got my jaboticaba (red).  Yeah, it was a mob scene!

[Orkine]

Got my jaboticaba (red).  Yeah, it was a mob scene!

I planned on dropping in but had to run a couple of errands first.  Looks like it will have to be another time.

[561MangoFanatic]

Got my jaboticaba (red).  Yeah, it was a mob scene!

Would've liked to go but mob scenes aren't for me. Claustrophobic & don't do well in big crowds & to nice & indecisive to deal with that. Seems like I would have to go knowing what I want.. does anyone know if there was Star of anise for sale?

[Mr. Clean]

I will be there bringing about 200 trees. Should be a lot of different things there along with a lot of mangos and avocado . Mr. clean you know any of the new vendors .

Sorry, didn't see this until later.  There were around 30+ vendors there.  It was a forest before the sale started and a huge amount of the stuff sold.