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 (heuchera macrorhiza) a lime green, fuzzy leafed 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. Deer resistant!
Blazing Star
Liatris spicata
Tall perennial that likes moist soils. Spikes of deep purple flower clusters bloom in late summer and attract birds and butterflies to feed. Clay and drought tolerant
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.
Grey Goldenrod
Solidago nemoralis
Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
Mountain Mints
Pycanthemum tenuifolium
Pycanthemum muticuum
Displays a mass of yellow flowers from late summer through the fall and individual plants bloom at various times, thus extending the flowering season. Belongs in a meadow or cottage garden where it can naturalize.
Lovely trumpet-shaped, lavender flowers that bloom late May through June attract a variety of pollinators. 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 2024 offering cultivar Sweet Kate with bright green leaves.
Swamp Sunflower
Helianthus angustifolius
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.
Sweet Goldenrod
Solidago odora
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 plant forms colonies.
White Turtlehead
Chelone glabra
Whorled Tickseed
Coreopsis verticillata
Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
Named for its distinctive flowers which are said to resemble a turtle's head. This wetland plant will strongly prefer wet to moist soils in full to mostly sun.
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
Old Man's Beard
Clematis virginiana
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!
Blooming in late summer to early fall this vigorous native vine 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.
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.
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.
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
Eastern Sweetshrub
Calycanthus Florida
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.
It blooms in early spring before leaves emerge, with the leaves, and sporadically thereafter. It is commonly called sweetshrub and strawberry bush in reference to the showy fragrant blooms which have been described as combining hints of pineapple, strawberry, and banana.
Serviceberry
Amelanchier canadensis
This small tree blooms its white flowers in early spring, before the leaves emerge. Flowers give way to edible berries, which ripen to red and then dark purple in early summer. Tolerates clay.
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.
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.