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11 April, 2025
Get in early for pre-Easter plant sale
ANYTHING from shrubs, hanging baskets and climbers to heliconia rhizomes will be available to buy at the Friends of the Botanic Gardens pre-Easter plant sale on Sunday where one-of-a-kind specimens will be within reach.
The Friends of the Botanic Gardens are holding one of their three annual plant sales this Sunday to fundraise for the upkeeping of the gardens. The pre-Easter sale is one of their most popular of the year with over 100 people lining up to get one of the big rhizomes.
The sale is taking place in the saltwater lakes area across the road from Comino’s House on Greenslopes St from 8am to noon.
President Catie Williams said this was one not to miss for green thumbs.
“This is one of three plant sales we have during the year to raise funds to enhance the Cairns Botanic Gardens. This one is slightly different because we’re having it at the saltwater lake nursery where we do all our propagation, instead of Flecker Gardens,” she said.
“There’ll be hundreds of plants and we also have a huge selection of rhizomes from the beautiful, big heliconias and gingers that are all through the botanic gardens for sale.
“It’s really popular with people, those who particularly want the rhizomes start lining up from 7am and there have been queues of up to 150 people, so if you want the rhizomes, you have to get in early.
“We’ll have a lot of our gardeners on site to assist people while of our plants sit outside the nursery in pagodas, and there’ll also be better parking and we can assist people with moving things to their cars because some of the rhizomes are really big.”
