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Landis Signature Plant, Book, and Bake Sales 

Something to write home about!


Thank you! 

Our 2020 Fall Plant, Book, & Bake Sale was a huge success, thanks to our wonderful volunteers and customers.  We appreciate you!

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Our Pandemic Precautions, Approved by the Schoharie County Health Department:
  • No more than 50 people will be allowed on campus at a time, including staff, volunteers, and customers.
  • ​In order to manage the density requirements, our parking volunteers may require you to park in our lower lot until some customers finish shopping and leave the Arboretum.
  • The Arboretum will be closed to the general public during sale hours, opening only to customers and volunteers.
  • Masks required at all times for everyone, covering mouth AND nose.
  • Volunteers in key positions will wear face shields as well.
  • Customers are strongly encouraged to pay with credit or debit cards instead of cash.
  • Bake sale items will be pre-packaged in plastic.
  • We will unfortunately not be able to have our usual vendor with his amazing soups and burgers.
  • Sanitation stations will be available throughout the area.
These precautions are similar to those in place during our very successful Forest 5K in August.
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The Spring sale is the weekend after Mother's Day, the perfect time to be planting for the beginning of the growing season.  The fall sale is a wonderful time to be planting perennials.  Landis' sale features selections from respected local consignors, plants grown and tenderly potted up by Landis volunteers, and plants grown in our own greenhouse.  We feature many native plants, and often have a "theme" plant type for the spring sale.

Both sales begins with a Pick of the Pots (POPS) preview sale and party for Arboretum members on the Friday evening before the sale weekend (check out Activity Calendar for times).  If you are not currently a member, we will happily help you join at the gate!  The sale continues on Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm in both seasons.
                                   What's all the fuss about?

Twice each year, Landis hosts one of the best plant sales you'll find - and enhances them with wonderful baked goods and a Book Sale Room chock full of books (many about gardening and related topics, but also fiction, philosophy, fun . . . you name it!)The sales have become a perennial favorite with many of our members and friends.  Here is a sampling of what they have to say:

 “We return each year . . .  because we are looking for something unique and unusual . . . .   And we’ve never been disappointed.”

“It’s a great learning experience.  The plant sale draws plant collectors, gardeners, and enthusiasts with an immense body of [horticultural] knowledge . . . .”

“Ed Miller gives the best native plant tours.  After one of Ed’s tours, I will never see an Adirondack bog the same again.”

“It’s a great time to socialize and meet new friends.  Landis does not lack for interesting and colorful personalities.”

“ . . . . we will continue to shop at the Landis sales to support the Arboretum, to show our appreciation for the hard work that putting the sale together entails, to search for just the right plant, and to see what the weather on the hill be will THIS year!”

“Just when you think you don’t need any more plants, you realize that you do!”


. . . and yes, we can always use volunteers - for setup before the sale, cleanup afterward, all sorts of things during the sale, as well as baking for our bake sale and book donation for our book sale.  Contact us at
volunteering@landisarboretum.org for more information!