Physical Plant Sales and Sales by Order
Interested in plants and gardening? Buying local? Helping a charity with your purchase? You can do all that and more by supporting our Birthright Plant Sales.* Located in Victoria, BC, we sell a wide variety of plants at our May plant sales and by order for pick-up from our Langford greenhouse throughout the growing season. See below for links to our plant sale pages.
We’re taking pre-orders for the 2024 season starting in February! Orders will be ready for pick-up from Peggy’s Langford greenhouse in May or, by arrangement, from one of our spring plant sales (see below for dates). We’ve updated most of our listings, except for newly-seeded plants and those waiting on spring division. If you’re interested in any plants with uncertain numbers, feel free to contact us to get on our wait list. Lots of new plants this year, so please take a peek to see what treasures we have in store for you!
Tomatoes, Other Veggies, and Herbs
Plant Sales 2024
We’ll have plant sales at the following locations this coming May. The Langford sale, at Peggy’s greenhouse, offers the greatest selection and variety. If you’ve placed a pre-order and would like to collect it at one of our sales, please be sure to let us know so we can have it ready for you!
- Peggy’s Greenhouse in Langford: May 11 10AM – 2PM 550 Langvista Drive
- St. Elizabeth’s Church in Sidney: May 18 11AM – 2PM 10030 3rd Ave Please note this is a date change.
- St. Patrick’s Church in Oak Bay: May 25 9AM – 1PM 2060 Haultain St.
Most of our sales take place in the spring, but we welcome orders throughout the growing season. Please contact us if you’d like to order plants or arrange a browsing session (once the weather warms up).
*Our Garden Babies for Birthright Plant Sales raise valuable funds so that we may continue the pregnancy support service of Birthright Victoria. Offering friendship and support to women experiencing unplanned pregnancy…because we care.
Ordering Info
Please use our contact form to order plants or book a private browsing session. Include your phone number as a back-up contact and list the plants you’d like and numbers wanted. We’ll get back to you with an itemized invoice, payment options, and pick-up information.
Our Plant Sale Pages
You can browse our complete Plant Sale listings by clicking on the links below.
- Tomatoes and other Edibles
- Shrubs and Ornamentals
- Perennials, Ground Covers, Rock Plants, and Annuals
Some Plant Sale History
Our first Garden Babies for Birthright Plant Sales began in 1997 as a fund raiser for the pregnancy support work of Birthright Victoria. Back then, we set up the first sale in a parking lot, dug into our gardens for volunteer plants, and sold to passersby. We’ve moved inside since that first year, and then out again with COVID and location changes. At present, our sales are a mix of inside and out, with portable coverings to provide shelter from inclement weather.
Today, we run three Birthright Plant Sales: at Peggy’s greenhouse in Langford, at St. Patrick’s Church in Oak Bay, and at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Sidney. The Langford sale used to take place in early May, but as we’ve grown more tender veggies for our sales, we’ve shifted toward mid May. Dates for the other two sales have danced around over the years, but they generally take place toward the latter half of May.
Since that first Plant Sale, we’ve grown and expanded. Some years have had their challenges, such as scheduling snafus, cold, late springs, watering restrictions and, more recently, COVID. The COVID years were challenging for small charities like Birthright, but with the addition of digital listings and sales by order, our Birthright Plant Sales have flourished!
Plant Sales Going Forward
Today, we offer a mix of Plant Sales by Order and physical sales. There’s a buzz of excitement to in–person sales that’s hard to duplicate. People tell us they look forward to them all year. At the same time, our plant sale pages have made learning about and ordering plants easier than ever. If you’re interested in tomatoes or other veggies, we especially recommend you pre-order to get the varieties you want. And if you’ve come to this page in February, you have even more options. We have some tomato varieties which are only available by February pre-order, so you may want to have a look…
For 2024, we are once again in the hall at our Oak Bay location, making set-up and sale day easier and more comfortable. Our Langford move is likely a permanent shift outside as our old location has been sold and the hall demolished. As a fringe benefit, we have access to a much larger selection of plants than we could haul to the old location! (We’re adding a trail of pop-up shelters to keep shoppers dry in case of bad weather.) Our Sidney sale remains outside. We’ll update this page as we firm up this year’s plant sale dates. We look forward to welcoming you back to our Garden Babies for Birthright Plant Sales in 2024. And we hope to see many familiar faces!
