With spring on the way, many people are starting to think about gardening. The Williamsport Plant Show is a great chance to plan your own garden.
It will be held on Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at City Alliance Church, 380 West Fourth Street.
The show will feature around 22 vendors, mostly plant sellers along with some crafters. Hobbyists will bring a variety of plants, from common types to rare and hard-to-find ones. Rose Street Nursery will also be there, offering outdoor garden plants and vegetables.
Food will be available from Flavorful Fork, desserts and sweets from The Rolling Pin, and Buckin’ Bean will be outside serving coffee and other drinks.
“We connected through local Facebook plant hobbyist groups, where other plant hobbyists could buy or trade plants that were maybe harder to find at local nurseries or even box stores. I brought the vision up with Emily Stover to help me host a local plant show, because a lot of plant shows that do happen are two hours away in either direction,” Tara Spaulding, one of the organizers of the event, told Webb Weekly. “We have a lot of local plant collectors that might not find it easy to get out of the area to the other plant shows that are hosted in New York, Hershey, and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. This show took probably about five months to get the ball rolling, and I was able to secure a place at my church, City Alliance, in downtown Williamsport, and to help support the City Alliance Youth group, raise money to help offset fees for trips for kids retreats and other activities they do year-round.”
Stover stated, “As a houseplant hobbyist, I enjoy going to plant shows hosted in the northeast. Tara and I got together and asked, ‘Why not here?’ and the idea for hosting the Williamsport Plant Show was developed. We hope to bring the houseplant community together, celebrate our hobby, and support other sellers in our local community. We desire to bring the community together and support each other in a hobby we love.”
A $5 entrance donation will help support the City Alliance Youth Group.
