Where should I donate unwanted plants?
Answers: For anything you want to afford away, check out the Freecycle network. It's an email/web-based group that trades "stuff." Many gardeners & homeowners post offer of plants and other garden materials, and you may just be capable of have the receiver come and dig it up themselves.
dumpster will work
Contact your local Master Gardener program. I'm sure they would love to own them and could find them a great new home.
Donate to a thrift store-they trade everything.
Or put an ad within the paper-most papers have a free section(you can post the classified ad for free)
You might try contacting the San Francisco Rose Society or the Peninsular Rose Society (also in San Francisco). One or the other may own a member who might close to to adopt your roses. Or may have an annual plant mart where your plants could find a untried home. I appreciate that you are making some effort to not simply trash them.
Post some signs around your neighborhood and someone may come and take them sour your hands. A post within the news article would work as well. I know that If I read contained by the paper that someone surrounded by my town was getting rid of their roses I'd be at hand in a heart lash. Talk to your friends as well, possibly one of them would be interested.
Good luck
If I were you, I would nickname one of the elementary schools and ask them. Most school would love to have them.
I use Freecycle both to donate away and receive items, including plants. You can post an "offer" or a "wanted" and people will come pick up something you surmise is absolutely useless and that they imagine is extremely useful.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sffn/...
or www.freecycle.org and investigate for a group in your nouns.
Freecycle is fun and interesting!
I put a sign out in front of my house and sold the plants for $1 respectively. All were thinned perennials. I put the money into untried gardening projects. People stopped in droves to gain the plants and I was completely generous next to the handouts. It made me feel honest knowing that the plants were going to other gardeners.
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