AZRFG Fall Plant Sale 2016

  Last Saturday was the Arizona Rare Fruit Growers Fall Plant Sale, held at Mesa Community College's Rose Garden - a perfect venue for selling tropical plants!  There was plenty of shade and the garden seemed to have its own little micro-climate.

There was quite a variety of dragon fruit plants for sale, and experienced growers on hand to give great (and in my case - much needed!) gardening advice.

Plenty of happy customers searching through a huge variety of rare and tropical plants.  I should have taken notes but was busy gawking at plants I had never seen up close before - Okinowan spinach, starfruit, banana plants, pineapple, jujube, panache tiger stripe fig, shangri la mulberry, white mulberry, jaboticaba, coffee tree, cinnamon tree, sugar apple, and an enormous variety of pomegranate trees.

They even had moringa trees, seen on right side of the above photo.

This young gardener had his hands full tending to his new trees and soil amendments!

Jake Mace was there with his new best friend - his selfie stick!  Jake has started broadcasting live, catch him at Jake Mace Live Stream on YouTube.

Happy customers leaving with trees from Shamus O'Leary's Tropical Fruit Trees.  

If you missed out on this opportunity to buy from Shamus, you will have one more chance this coming weekend at Jay Barringer's Food Forest Exploraganza and Workshop 
Saturday Oct. 22nd, 9am - 11am, in east Mesa at 41 S 83rd Pl, Mesa, AZ 85208  Also available will be Jay's Orchard Gold Mix,
Shamus's compost/lava sand mix,  Shamus's Foliar Feed, Azomite, and
Mycorrhizae. 

Kudos to the Arizona Rare Fruit Growers for putting together a magnificent plant sale and having so many helpful and knowledgeable members on hand to assist buyers!  This is a great group to learn from, so consider joining and attending meetings.  Meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of every month at MCC from 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM.