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The 5pm Post – Friends of the National Arboretum (FONA) Annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale


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From an email:

FRIDAY, APRIL 27 ( 1 to 4 p.m.) and SATURDAY, APRIL 28 (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

Friends of the National Arboretum (FONA) Annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale featuring new, rare and hard-to-find plants. This year’s sale also includes more than 600 books on horticulture, garden design and designers, landscape architecture and garden travel from the library of longtime FONA board member and garden designer Sally Boasberg, who died last month. (Note: A members-only sale will be held Friday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tax-deductible memberships are available through FONA in advance or at the gate.) The annual fair coincides with the Arboretum’s spectacular display of azaleas, the largest collection in the metropolitan area. The Garden Fair is on the grounds of the U.S. National Arboretum, 3501 New York Avenue NE. Contact 202-544-8733 or www.fona.org.

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