The Bloomfield Horticultural Thrift Store

07/05/2024

06/14/2024

The Bloomfield Horticultural Thrift Store will be open Sundays 10-3 June - September (unless it is raining). Prices are $3 for small plants, $6 for large plants, and $9 for plants potted to grow in their containers. Current inventory includes: hostas, hedge sedum, day lilies, solomon's seal, mugwort, milk w**d, wild geranium, violets, sweet woodruff, columbine, stripped grass, chives, spear mint, apple mint, oregano, lemon balm, corn flower, and may apples. Gratefully accepting donations of planter pots, plants, and other gardening items. Large clumps perfectly acceptable. I will happily separate them. Thank you!

05/31/2024

The Bloomfield Horticultural Thrift Store will reopen this Sunday, June 2, from 10-3pm. Lots of hardy perennials available, and gratefully accepting donations of planter pots, gardening supplies, and clumps of your unwanted or overgrown plants. Thank you!

05/06/2024

The Bloomfield Horticultural Thrift Store's 2023 Financial Statements and Analysis: click on the link below to see a PDF detailing revenue and expenses for the Bloomfield Horticultural Thrift Store for the year 2023. I have included an analysis of the results and how I plan to incorporate the conclusions into this year’s operation. Happy gardening in 2024!

11/30/2023

Come attend the 7th annual Bloomfield Solar Powered Community Christmas Tree lighting this Sunday, Dec. 3’rd, Bloomfield Centre Park, 6:00 with cookies and coco beginning at 5:30! Nova Scotia’s first solar powered community Christmas Tree (located at the corner of Agricola and Almon across from the Royal Bank).

08/27/2023

New Arrivals Post: like this post to receive updates on new arrivals. I've turned off commenting for the post so that I can post each new arrival as a comment. If you "like" this post, you should receive a notification every time there is a new comment. Thank you!

08/14/2023

Landscaping and yard work services: if you live in the Bloomfield area, or can provide transportation, I can help transform your yard space with inexpensive and hardy plants that will grow and spread and come back year after year. Late summer and fall is actually a great time to garden, giving plants time to establish themselves and get a head start on next year. $20/hr and 10% discount on all plants.

07/14/2023

Pots, buckets, jugs, plastic sheets, etc: Buckets and jugs $2, very large pots, $3, large pots $2, medium pots $1.50, small and very small $1-$.50. Plastic sheets $1, netting $1, landscaping rocks, wood, & misc hardware $1-$.25.

07/14/2023

Large potted plants $5: hostas, wild geranium, columbine, ferns, p***y willow, flowering dogwood etc. Medium potted plants $3: pulmonaria, lilly of the valley, etc. Small potted plants $2: creeping sedums, sweet woodruff, corn flower, oregano, thyme. Roots $1.00: doronicum, garlic, dahlias.

07/02/2023

Included below is a link to the Bloomfield Horticultural Thrift Store’s mission statement detailing its terms of operation which will be funded through the sale of donated and rescued plants and gardening supplies with 100% of the profits going to fund local charities. This year, I will donate all profits to the Parker Street Food Bank. In future years, I will create a mechanism to support a number of charities and allow patrons of the thrift store to decide how the funds are distributed. Ultimately, I hope this effort will form the basis of a business model which can be replicated by others across the nation and the globe. To this end, I will make my financial records publicly available in the comments section of this post to help prove the business case for horticultural thrift stores. I will also post updates with my insights and experiences of operating a horticultural thrift store.

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06/26/2023

Selling low-cost plants and garden supplies Thursday through Sunday, 10-3 (subject to the weather). 2787 Agricola. Drop-offs available outside these hours until early evening by arrangement. Have plants that are taking over your garden or wish to make room for something new? Dig them up and donate today! I will see that they find a good home. If you live in the neighbourhood, I can come and help. Also eagerly accepting all forms of gardening items: plants, seeds, pots, containers, buckets, jugs, hoses (broken or not), pipe, tools, nails, screws, wood, clear plastic sheets, books, landscaping stones, bricks, garden furniture, and anything else that may be useful to the creative urban gardener. Thank you!