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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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Bearded Penstemon
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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 or Liatris

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'.

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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

 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. 

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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.

Culvers Root

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. 

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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 or Zizia

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.

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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.

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Nodding onion or Alium cernum

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.

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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.

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Spiderwort

Tradescantia virginiana

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.

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Swamp Sunflower

Helianthus angustifolius

Sweet goldenrod Solidago Odora

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..

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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.

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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.

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Wild Columbine

Aquilegia canadensis

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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.

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Aromatic Aster

Aster oblongifolius

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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.

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Wild Bleeding Heart

Dicentra eximia

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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.

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Wild Quinine

Parthenium integrifolium

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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. 

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Golden Ragwort

Packera aurea

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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.  

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Spotted Beebalm

Monarda punctata

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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.

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Bronze Wave Coral Bells

Heuchera villosa

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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

Arrowood or Viburnum dentatum

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Smooth sumac or rhus glabra
Spicebush or Lindera Bendoin
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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