SOME of the town’s best stocked gardens, including Sir Vernon Ellis’s Shalford House garden, will be providing some unusual plants for Haslemere Museum’s spring plant sale on Saturday, May 14.

It is the third year that museum trustees Jane Clayton and Sarah Bain have organised this sale to raise funds for the museum.

Sarah said: “We are very grateful to Sir Vernon, a museum patron, and event sponsors Transform Landscapes and Furnace Place Estate for their generous support for this event.

“Together with plants raised and nurtured by the museum’s friends and volunteers, a huge array of perennials, summer bedding, vegetables, herbs, shrubs and garden miscellanea, all on offer at very reasonable prices, will fill the museum’s lecture hall.

“This sale is not only an opportunity to bring your garden back to life after this rather cool spring, but also one to help the Museum, a charitable trust, with all proceeds going towards our work.

“Last year’s sale raised an astonishing £2,000 which made a big difference to us because Haslemere Museum is independent and, unusually, receives no public funding.”

Transform Landscapes and Furnace Place Estate will be running a free garden surgery offering expert advice on all manner of garden problems as well as selling some of their own specialist plants.

Entry is free from 11am until 1pm, and refreshments are available.