Our Plants
Plants are for sale by appointment and at weekend sales at our garden. Availability changes seasonally. Plant sizes range from half quart to gallon and prices range from $5 to $20. All our pots are recycled/reused. Our organic soil mix is peat free and locally produced. Your extra native plants and shrubs can be exchanged!
Perennials


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Alumroot
Heuchera americana
Beardtongue Husker Red
Penstemon digitalis
Black Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia fulgida
Unique silver blue marbled foliage on Dale's Strain variety. Blooms in spring, an excellent clump forming groundcover for shady spots. We also sell Autumn Bride and Bronze Wave varieties of heuchera villosa, a fuzzy leaved variety that is deer resistant, and blooms in September.
The species is found in prairies, fields, along the edges of woodlands or in open forests and along roads and railroad tracks. This somewhat short-lived herbaceous rhizomatous perennial grows in a clump with a cluster of basal rosettes up to 2 feet wide.
One of the most popular native flowers, Black-Eyed Susans spread over open fields and attract butterflies. Thrives in sun or part shade and grows up to 3 feet. Deer resistant!

Blazing Star/Rough Blazing Star
Liatris spicata/Liatris aspera
Tall meadow perennial that thrives in dry sunny spots. Spikes of deep purple flower clusters bloom in late summer and attract birds and butterflies to feed. Blazing star is 3-4' and pictured. Rough blazing star has button like blooms on its spike and can grow up to 6'.


Blue Stemmed Goldenrod
Solidago caesia
Brown Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia triloba
This Wisconsin endangered plant features graceful arching stems covered with hundreds of small yellow flowers. The distinct stems are purplish in color.
Densely branched short-lived perennial will self-seed. Yellow, daisy-like flowers bloom densely in the plant from summer to fall. Attracts butterflies. Deer resistant.

Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
Wild Petunia is a hummingbird favorite with trumpet-shaped lavender blooms that attract long-tongued bees and butterflies. Smaller plant that can be used in containers.
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Butterfly Weed Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
Prized for its large, flat-topped orange flowers. Attracts ample butterflies and pollinators.



Early Goldenrod
Solidago juncea
False Blue Indigo
Baptisia australis
Garden Phlox
Phlox paniculata
Tiny bright yellow flowers, provides good color and contrast for late summer and early fall. A wonderful plant for native bees and butterflies. Tolerates clay soil, drought, and deer.
Naturally found in forests along stream banks. Loved for its purple flowers and black seed pods. Perfect for garden or water edges!
This taller phlox produces fragrant, pink-purple blooms in late summer that attract butterflies and hummingbirds. Deer, clay tolerant.

Culver's Root
Veronicastrum virginicum
Can be grown easily in wildflower gardens. The root contains a powerful emetic and cathartic. Butterflies and numerous solitary bees such as sweat bees, carpenter bees and bumble bees will visit the popular flowers.



Wild Pinks
Silene caroliniana
"short and sweet"
Eastern Columbine 'Corbett"
Aquilegia canadensis 'Corbett"
Mountain Mints
Pycanthemum tenuifolium
Pycanthemum muticuum
Delightful, compact and easy to grow, Silene 'Short and Sweet' is an excellent choice for bright shade or full sun. It is covered in deep pink flowers in late spring. Growing 6-8" tall its a great replacement for dianthus.
This local columbine was found in Baltimore County, MD and has buttery yellow blooms and is shorter than wild red columbine. It blooms in April and May and can handle sun to shade. It is deer resistant.
Create a flurry of activity with these outstanding nectar plants. Butterflies, honeybees, native bees and wasps of many kinds love them. Spreading plants that are deer resistant.

Golden Alexander
Zizia aurea
Flat-topped clusters of compound yellow flowers bloom in late spring. Attracts butterflies, as the larvae of the swallowtail feed on it.

Joe Pye-Weed
Eupatorium dubium
Large plants with purple blossoms can be showy additions to a garden. Attracts butterflies, birds, and pollinators. Deer resistant. For 2024 we are offering variety Little Joe.



Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
New England Aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
Purplish stems with showy, fluffy, tubular, blue-purple flowers in late summer to early fall. Attracts butterflies.
Late-blooming, showy aster that hosts a variety of butterflies, and provides a much-needed food source during fall migration.
Narrow, grass-like leaves lead to small pink flowers the appear in clusters in the summer. Smells of onion when cut. Deer and drought tolerant.



Obedient Plant
Physostegia virginiana
Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides
Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
Rattlesnake Master
Eryngium yuccifolium
This attractive plant is snapdragon-like. If the flowers are bent, they tend to stay in the new position for a while, hence its name. A good nectar source for butterflies. This perennial is easy to establish and maintain.
This small sunflower relative provides pollinators with cheery yellow blooms in late summer.
Showy purple coneflowers bloom through the summer in upright stems and are beautiful to cut. Dead flower stems remain up all winter to support birds. Tolerates deer, drought, clay, and rocky soils.
Rattlesnake Master is a perennial forb native to prairies. Rattlesnake master thrives in full sun and has a striking flower head and architectural form.

A thick clump of slender greens stalks are topped by groups of bluish three petaled flowers which only open in morning. Blooms from spring through summer. For 2025 also offering cultivar Sweet Kate with bright green leaves.


Swamp Sunflower
Helianthus angustifolius

Sweet Goldenrod
Solidago odora
Use this plant in the back border of a native/pollinator garden, naturalized area, or along streams and ponds. Give it room to grow and spread and you will have a profusion of late-season flowers when little else is blooming.
An upright clumping perennial wildflower with glossy anise scented foliage. Plants are tough and adaptable, prospering in sunny or partly shaded sites with sandy or average well drained soil.
Robins Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
Soft stems rise from hairy, soft, paddle shaped leaves in a rosette. White flowers resembling asters appear in spring. This 8" groundcover spreads and is perfect for your sun to part shade areas..



Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
Whorled Tickseed
Coreopsis verticillata
Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
Foamflower is a small, delicate native herbaceous perennial flower grown in gardens for its neat, interesting foliage and small spikes of creamy white flowers. Growing up to 10" it prefers a moisture and grows is shade to part shade. In addition to straight species some cultivars are available.
The narrow linear leaves of this milkweed are whorled along the stem. Small greenish white flowers occur in clusters at the top. This plant is toxic to livestock.
Threadleaf coreopsis is a popular, 1-3 ft. perennial with delicate, dark-green leaves divided into thread-like segments. The long-blooming flower heads are a nectar source and the seed is eaten by birds. This plant spreads by rhizomes.

Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
This mint-family plant has light-purple flowers that blossom in late summer, which attract bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies. Tolerates some drought and clay soils. Deer resistant.

Wild Columbine
Aquilegia canadensis



Wild Geranium
Geranium maculatum
Woodland Sunflower
Helianthus divaricatus
Yellow Wood Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
Beautiful, red-and-yellow, bell-shaped hanging flowers bloom in spring and attract hummingbirds. Deer and drought tolerant.
Bright saucer-shaped purple flowers bloom in spring. Can naturalize and spread in optimal growing conditions, so can be used as a ground cover.
Features two-inch-wide flowers with bright yellow rays and slightly darker yellow centers, blooming from midsummer to fall. Especially suitable for dry, open woodland or savanna.
This 12-20 in. perennial with gray-green, lobed and toothed leaves is known for its large, poppy-like, yellow flowers. The stalks are leafy and the flowers are produced in small clusters, atop a stem bearing a pair of deeply lobed leaves; other leaves basal. Plant has yellow sap.

Aromatic Aster
Aster oblongifolius



Eastern Beebalm
Monarda
Golden Fleece Goldenrod
Solidago sp
Cutleaf Coneflower
Rudbeckia laciniata
This is a late blooming fall aster with medium blue flowers and aromatic foliage. It grows in clumps up to 3 feet- great contrast to late blooming goldenrods. This variety is Raydon’s Favorite.
This near native bee balm blooms in early May with pink to light
lavender showy flowers. Nicely mounded foliage remains.
This is a pollinator magnet and deer resistant.
Semi evergreen, heart shaped leaves give rise to wands of golden flowers from mid-August to October.
This shorter goldenrod makes a great
ground cover and is a butterfly magnet!
A sunflower-like perennial, with leafy stalks growing 3-10 ft. tall. The late summer flowers have greenish-yellow centers and back-tilted golden rays.Attractive leaves are pinnately dissected and emerge early in spring.
Can grow in sun or shade and
readily self sows. Prefers some moisture.

Wild Bleeding Heart
Dicentra eximia

Wild Verbena
Verbena hastata
Heart-shaped pendulous flowers appear in early spring on 10-16” tall stems of lacy foliage. This long blooming perennial thrives in dry filtered shade, but requires extra moisture after transplanting.
Tall, thin spikes of violet blue flowers appear in July and August. This is a short lived perennial that readily self seeds where happy. Prefers some moisture.

Wild Quinine
Parthenium integrifolium

Purple Knockout Lyreleaf Sage
Salvia Lyrata
This underused native thrives in sun to part shade areas and has a button like white flower on its stalk. It grows to 3 ft and blooms in June and July.
Grown mainly for the foliage, 'Purple Knockout' has compact basal rosettes of shiny burgundy leaves that turn to deep purple in summer, then to red in the fall. Spikes of pale lilac-blue flowers appear in spring and summer on this sun-loving groundcover.

Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea



Yarrow
Achillae millefolium
Coral Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
Old Man's Beard
Clematis virginiana
Clusters of yellow daisy like flowers appear on top of glossy green basal leaves during April and May. This groundcover thrives in sun or shade. It grows to 18" and readily self sows.
Naturalized yarrow has soft fern-like leaves that provide textural interest in a garden. It thrives in full sun, blooming summer to fall. It can grow up to 3 feet and spreads by rhizome, but it can also be mowed and used as a lawn alternative.
This semi-evergreen, twining vine produces clusters of 2" yellow-centered, red, trumpet-shaped blooms starting in mid-spring. Hummingbirds and bumble bees appreciate its flowers' nectar, while songbirds love the red berries that follow. Prefers filtered sun to full sun and grows 10-15ft.
Blooming in late summer to early fall this vigorous native vine (up to 20ft) is covered with sweetly scented white flowers. It can be used on fences, trellises and trees to provide nectar to pollinators and cover for birds. Blooms in shade or sun, preferring some moisture.

Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata



Jacob's Ladder
Polemonium
Spreading Bellwort
Uvilaria sessifolia
Pussytoes
Antennaria neglecta
Spotted beebalm typically occurs in full sun to part shade areas. It has a lovely pink and yellow flower blooming mid summer to fall. Prefers dry to medium soil. It is a clump-forming plant that is less aggressive than wild beebalm growing 1.5-2' tall.
This spring bloomer gets its name from the ladder like stcture of its leaflets. It thrives in part shade, preferring consistent moisture. It is deer resistant and can grow up to 1.5 feet.
Pale yellow bell-shaped flowers hang from this spring blooming native in spring. Growing best in the understory, this native grows up to
one foot and will slowly spread.
Pussytoes are known for their velvety leaves rather than the late spring flowers that look like tiny cat's feet. These flowers will reach up to about a foot in height, but the leaves grow at ground level. They thrive in dry sunny spots and provide a good ground cover for dry areas such as rock gardens. Deer and rabbit resistant.

Bronze Wave Coral Bells
Heuchera villosa



Appalachian Blues Skullcap
Scutellaria ovata x serrata
Coral Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
Old Man's Beard
Clematis virginiana
Blooming in fall, this native cultivar is a wonderful shade groundcover. It reaches 2 ft and does well under trees.
Its fuzzy leaves increase its deer resistance and the color is spectacular!
This skullcap grows to 2 feet and can be grown in dry shade or sun. It is a naturally occurring hybrid. In mid summer it blooms with lovely bicolor purple and white flowers.
This semi-evergreen, twining vine produces clusters of 2" yellow-centered, red, trumpet-shaped blooms starting in mid-spring. Hummingbirds and bumble bees appreciate its flowers' nectar, while songbirds love the red berries that follow. Prefers filtered sun to full sun and grows 10-15ft.
Blooming in late summer to early fall this vigorous native vine (up to 20ft) is covered with sweetly scented white flowers. It can be used on fences, trellises and trees to provide nectar to pollinators and cover for birds. Blooms in shade or sun, preferring some moisture.
Shrubs

Arrowwood
Viburnum dentatum
This shrub creates white groups of flowers in late spring that create blue-black berries, attracting birds in fall. Yellow, orange, and red foliage in fall. Clay tolerant.


Elderberry
Sambucus canadensis
Grey Dogwood
Cornus racemose
Deciduous shrub prefers moist soils. Tiny, lemon-scented flowers appear in clusters 10" across in early summer and create black elderberries in late summer that can make jams, pie fillings, and feed wildlife. Tolerates clay.
Though deer may forage on the leaves of this shrub, butterflies and birds (including Eastern Bluebirds) enjoy the fruits and white blooms. White
berries are born on red stalks. Growing to 16ft this shrub tolerates sun to shade and a variety of soil conditions.

Beauty Berry
Callicarpa americana
Perennial shrub with long, arching branches and clusters of glossy, purple fruit in fall and winter. Useful as a screen in swampy or wooded locations.



Red Chokeberry
Aronia arbutifolia
Red Osier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
Ninebark
Physocarpus opulifolius
Upright deciduous shrub with rough bark that peels in strips, revealing reddish to brown layers of inner bark. Small white flowers appear in late spring and red fruit after. Grows in harsh conditions.
Red chokeberry is a tall, multi-stemmed shrub with abundant white flowers, red glossy berries, and outstanding red fall color. Red chokeberry is a tough, dependable plant with three-season interest, adaptable to many sites.
This red-twig dogwood makes a striking part of the garden in winter, when its stems turn bright red. Small white flowers in spring turn to fruit that supports birds in the summer.

A much-branched shrub, usually 3-12 ft. tall. Glossy, fragrant gray-green, egg-shaped leaves remain on the plant in the southern part of its range, or turn tan. Green catkins appear before leaves. Clusters of small, round, hard, white berries remain on the female plant all winter.
Northern Bayberry
Morella pensylvanica



Spicebush
Lindera benzoin
Indigo Bush
Amorpha fruiticosa
Smooth Sumac
Rhus glabra
Deciduous leaves become extremely colorful in early fall. On female plants, yellow-green flowers are followed by bright-red, hairy berries in erect, pyramidal clusters which persist throughout winter.
Groups of greenish flowers bloom in spring. Needs male and female plants to pollinate berries. Spicebush swallowtail larvae feed on the leaves of this shrub. Clay and drought tolerant.
A fast-growing shrub with ornamental flowers, this native is highly adaptable
to a variety of soil conditions and is both a larval host as well as a nectar source for native bees. Prefers sun to part shade, grows up to 12ft and will
form thickets.

Buttonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Multi-stemmed shrub growing 6-12ft is
a lovely ornamental for a moist area. The unusual globe shaped flowers are
long-lasting and are followed by nutlets which water birds eat. Shade to
part-shade is preferred.

Winterberry Holly
Ilex verticillata
Small, greenish-white flowers emerge in the spring that give way to bright red berries in the summer and persist through the winter to provide food for wildlife.

Sweetspire
Itea virginica
An upright, rounded shrub with tiny white flowers in drooping cylinders in early spring. Prefers wet soils and can form colonies through suckering. Adaptable to shade and wet locations.

American Hazelnut
Corylus Americana
Easy-to-grow native shrub that produces edible nuts in late summer needs 3-5 shrubs for optimal nut production. Able to thrive in a wide range of soil conditions; prefers full to partial sun. Its deep green leaves turn copper and yellow in autumn. 6-15 feel and can be pruned.

Witch Hazel
Hamamelis Virginiana
Best known for its fringed yellow flowers which appear in late fall this 12-15 ft shrub has great fall color, winter interest, a large vase shape, fragrant flowers, and fruit for the birds.
Performs best on moist sites but handles most soils. As a woodland understory shrub it prefers some shade but it will grow in full sun as well.
Grasses



Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
River Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
Appalachian Sedge
Carex Appalachica
Very popular as a low-maintenance shade grass, notable for its large, graceful seedheads. Sending up blue-green basal leaves in earliest spring, it can be 2 feet tall and a vivid green by May, with translucent green seedheads swaying in the breeze. By mid-summer, the seeds will have turned an attractive ivory then brown. It reseeds easily and can expand.
An ideal option for dry, shaded, or otherwise difficult sites. The leaves are uncommonly fine creating a lovely “weeping” appearance. It grows in dense tufts with a mound height of about 6 inches. In early spring, tiny flowering stalks shoot beyond the foliage with little starbursts of light green blooms. These plants grow slowly but steadily to form attractive colonies.
An upright 3-4ft grass with blue/green spiky blades. Wispy, silvery flowers occur in late summer followed by exceptional fall color changing from orange to deep burgundy. Sun to part sun and deer resistant. Both the cultivar "Standing Ovation" and the straight species are available.

Yellow Prairie Grass
Sorghastrum Nutans
Golden Sunset® flowers in mid-August and remains attractive through the winter. This nativar remains upright and does not fall over. Olive green narrow foliage.


Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
A burst of flowering panicles in tints of pink and brown float above the tufted base on slender stems in late summer. In fall the foliage color turns to hues of gold. Considered by many to be the most handsome of all prairie grasses.
Once the dominant species of the North American tallgrass prairie, this native warm-season grass is noted for the open, airy appearance of its seed heads and the multi-season interest of its foliage.