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Environmental Restoration Through Education
If you’re curious about how to start adding native plants to increase the visual interest of your yard while also creating an environment that is beneficial and protective to the local wildlife, come talk to us. Our staff can make recommendations based on your space.
Maybe your goal is to remove some (or most!) of your lawn and replace it with landscaping that will add to the visual aesthetic of your outdoor space and cut down on mowing, overseeding and fertilizing. Maybe your goal is to rely less on irrigation or watering during the hottest periods of the summer. Maybe you’re looking for people who can help troubleshoot particular challenges in your yard by identifying and eliminating diseases and pests through organic and environmentally responsible methods.
What We Offer
Variety
We stock and source hundreds of species of native plants from trusted growing partners located throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. There are so many beautiful alternatives to the non-native and sometimes invasive plants traditionally used in home landscapes. The plants we carry are adapted to the local climate conditions and necessary for native pollinators and ecosystems. If a customer wants a particular species that we don’t have, we’re happy to ask around to see if any of our growers have it.
Knowledge
Our seasoned staff will help you select the right native plants for your project, big or small. No matter the soil, light, or moisture conditions of your space, we are ready to help you make your native plant garden a success!
Industry Recognition
We are the only native plant retailer in the Piedmont that is highly recommended by the North Carolina Native Plant Society and recommended without reservation by the New Hope Audubon Society.
Speaker Series Events
Our free seasonal speakers offer a variety of topics to help you discover practices for your day-to-day gardening. These events focus on both practical and high-level knowledge that will help you integrate ecologically sound and responsible practices.
Native & Pollinator Plant Garden Center
We offer hundreds of native species that both encourage beauty and promote complete and healthy ecosystems. Native plants provide ecological benefits for all types of wildlife (including pollinators like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds).
In-House Design Consults Available
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Are you looking for a striking, unusual addition to your garden? A shade tolerant groundcover that still provides a splash of color during the spring to summer transition? Look no further, here is Sisyrinchium angustifolium, also known as blue-eyed grass!
Despite their common name, the Blue-eyed Grasses are not grasses at all but rather members of the Iris family. It forms a clump of narrow, blue-green leaves 12″ tall and wide that looks for all the world like an ornamental Grass, then over a long period running from late spring to mid-summer, it blankets itself with starry, lavender-blue flowers. It makes a fantastic edging, especially along a walk or a terrace.
If you are looking for a groundcover that will work well in partial shade underneath larger plants and shrubs, they handle competition quite well and readily spread via underground rhizomes. Plants flower best in full sun but also put on a good show in partial shade, and though the species is generally found in moist locations, they`re not super picky about soil.
We currently have a large number of gallon pots of the ‘Blue Note’ cultivar of blue-eyed grass, $13 each, feel free to come on by the nursery and check them out in the shadehouse!
Open Tue-Fri 8am-6pm and Sat-Sun 9am-6pm.
Perennial restock for the weekend (plus a few shrubs)! Lots of customer favorites in this lineup, and a few that we are getting for the first time in awhile.
`Belleza Dark Pink` & `Belleza White` Beeblossom
`Emerald Blue` Creeping Phlox
`Jeana` Garden Phlox
`Blue Moon` Woodland Phlox
`Plum Pudding` & `Carnival Watermelon` Coral Bells
`Balmy Rose` Beebalm
`Creme Brulee` Tickseed
`Delfts Blue Riding Hood` Beardtongue
`Rosa`s Blush` Dwarf Ornamental Blueberry
`Autumn Brilliance` Serviceberry
Straight species:
Echinacea purpurea (Coneflower)
Baptisia australis (Blue False Indigo)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas Fern)
Lindera benzoin (Spicebush)
Tubelings are young seedling trees or bushes that are grown rapidly in a greenhouse in plug containers, and at the age of 3 months they are as big and strong as field-grown plants a year old. Tubelings have wall established root systems and for best results they should be planted directly in their permanent location.
We currently have the following plants available as tubelings, $8.99:
Salix nigra (Black Willow)
Salix sericea (Silky Willow)
Chamaecyparis thyiodes (Atlantic White Cedar)
Euonymus americanus (Hearts-a-bustin / Strawberry Bush)
Spirea tormentosa (Steeplebush / Hardhack)
Lyonia lucida (Fetterbush)
Come by and visit us this weekend! Open Sat-Sun 9am-6pm & Tue-Fri 8am-6pm
Illicium is a flowering plant genus in the Schisandraceae (Star Anise) family. There are several varieties native to the Southeastern United States. Most are understory evergreen to semi-evergreen shrubs to small trees. The crushed leaves, stems, and seeds have an anise spice fragrance.
Most prefer part shade to shade, but some varieties will tolerate more sun if given enough moisture. They tolerate loam or sandy soils that are moist to wet with a neutral or acid PH.
Use as a showy specimen in the dappled shade at the back of your yard, as a hedge, or along ponds and streams in a naturalized or woodland garden. Illicium is resistant to deer browsing.
We usually carry the following varieties:
☀️`Florida Sunshine`- Electric lime-green leaves during spring and summer, and as the weather cools in fall, the leaf color brightens to screaming yellow, then becomes a near parchment color by midwinter.
5`-8` tall & 3`-4` wide when fully mature.
🍌BananAppeal: Dwarf variety, very similar in look and growth habits to the Florida Sunshine but much smaller!
3`-4` tall and wide
🌷`Pink Frost`- Has lovely variegated white and green foliage that turns rosy pink in cold weather. Maroon-red flowers bloom in spring.
6’-10’ tall & wide
🌳`Forest Green` - Upright-rounded evergreen shrub with glossy, olive green foliage that has a pleasant fragrance. The flowers are insignificant but are followed by the non-edible star-shaped seed capsules that have a licorice scent.
8’-12’ tall & 6’-8’ wide
🪷`Woodland Ruby` - Large, vibrant purple-red to rose-pink flowers from spring into fall. Evergreen glossy green leaves make it an excellent choice as a specimen or a hedge in shade or part shade.
6’-8’ tall & wide
🌸`Star Flower Orion` - The large, pale white flowers bloom multiple times throughout the year and the shrub is compact in shape and size.
3’-5’ tall & wide
🌱Straight species (Illicium parviflorum) - It has a vigorous growth rate, is easy to grow, and blooms from May to June. It does not change color in the fall.
15’-20’ tall & 10’-15’ wide
Email, DM, or Call us to check on specific availability! Or come on by when we are open, Tue-Fri 8am-6pm & Sat-Sun 9am-6pm
Restocks coming your way soon! Trees, shrubs, and perennials all making their way out onto the nursery floor...
Trees, Shrubs & Grass:
`Cherokee Princess` & `Cherokee Brave` Flowering Dogwood
`David Odom` Afterburner Black Gum/Black Tupelo
`Red Sprite`, `Jim Dandy`, & `Southern Gentleman` Winterberry Holly
`Winterthur` & `Mrs Schillers Delight` Viburnum
`Black Mountain` Big Bluestem
Perennials:
`Brandywine` Foamflower
`Green Sprite` Coral Bells
`Blackbeard` Beardtongue
`Jeana` Garden Phlox
`True Blue` Gentian
`Jacob Cline` Bee Balm
Straight Species Perennials:
Iris cristata (Dwarf Crested Iris)
Rosa carolina (Carolina Rose)
Gerenium maculatum (Wild Gerenium)
Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal Flower)
Come by and check it out! Open Tue-Fri 8am-6pm & Sat-Sun 9am-6pm
These local heirloom pumpkins are so fun and funky, we just had to make a reel with them too!
Perfect for fall decor or for eating 🍂 $3 per pound
Stop by and check them out! Open Tue-Fri 8am-6pm and Sat-Sun 9am-6pm.
What a beautiful bounty of local heirloom pumpkins! Perfect for fall decorating, as an alternative to a traditional jack-o-lantern, or cook them up into tasty treats!
These pumpkins came to us from a local grower out in Pittsboro and are a stunning variety of different heirloom strains, all very good for eating according to the farmer, just make sure you give them a good wash first!
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Available here at the nursery for $3 per pound! Open Tue-Fri 8am-6pm & Sat-Sun 9am-6pm.
Look at those cute lil toe beans and such a biiiiiigggg stretch😻 A cat so sweet he deserves his own day of the week!
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This week`s #SaturdayStaffFavorite is our `Ruby Spice` Clethera!
Also known as “Sweet Pepperbush” or “Summersweet”, Clethera is one of our favorite late flowering deer-resistant shrubs.
🌺When its fragrant dark pink flowers appear in June to August and its scent drifts through your garden on a hot summer night, you`ll understand why! It’s incredibly fragrant, so much so that you won’t believe how much these shrubs can perfume your entire garden, with notes hinting of honeysuckle, rose, clove, and heliotrope. It blooms on new wood, and during the summer it has a long bloom time that the pollinators absolutely love!
🍂While in autumn, the leaves turn a beautiful deep gold and the flowers turn into seeds that the birds rely on as a fall food source. After its leaves drop, the seed pods and beautiful bark provide winter interest. Its great as a backdrop in perennial borders or for difficult spots in your garden that`s a little shady and wet! We love this because it blooms in shady locations in late summer, when very few other shrubs are in bloom!
🌱 It has a compact growth habit, getting 4-6’ tall and 3-4’ wide and wants shady, moist, acidic soil with organic material. It tolerates full sun to part shade, but won’t tolerate a hot/dry site. Once mature it can handle short periods of drought/flooding.
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Come by and see us, open Sat-Sun 9am-6pm & Tue-Fri 8am-6pm
Perennials, groundcover, and shrubs restock! So many new and fun things out on the floor, perfect for a weekend of planting! Which one are you most excited to see?
`Ruby Slippers`, `Snow Queen`, `Annabelle`, & `Snowflake` Hydrangeas
`Red Sprite` `Jim Dandy`, & `Southern Gentleman` Hollys
`Little Carlow` & `Lady in Black` Asters
`Scarletta` Dwarf Leucothoe
`Sunburst` Shrubby St Johns Wort
`Massachusetts` Bearberry
`Cherries Berries` Wintergreen
`Short and Sweet` Wild Pinks
`Hot Lips` Turtlehead
`Huskers Red` Foxglove Beardtongue
`Little Joe` Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
`Running Tapestry` Foamflower
Straight Species:
Fothergilla gardenii (Dwarf Witch-Alder)
Lindera benzoin (Spicebush)
Polemonium reptans (Jacob`s Ladder)
Geranium maculatum (Wild Geranium)
Ruellia humilis (Prairie Petunia)
Pycnanthemum pilosum (Hairy Mountain Mint)
Pycnanthemum muticum (Short-toothed Mountain Mint)
Delphinium exaltatum (Tall Larkspur)
Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal Flower)
Aruncus dioicus (Goat`s Beard)
Rhododendron viscosum (Swamp Azalea)
Sporobolis heterolepis (Prairie Dropseed)
Royal, Sensitive, & Ostrich Ferns
Open Tue-Fri 8am-6pm & Sat-Sun 9am-6pm
Asters are important plants in pollinator gardens because they are one of the latest-blooming nectar plants for bees and butterflies. Plant in full sun to part-sun in moist, well-draining soil for best results.
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Seen in the video: `Lady in Black` Calico Aster, `Little Carlow`, `Wood`s Purple`, `Wood`s Light Blue`, & `Wood`s Pink`
all available in 1 gallon containers ($13-$15)
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Open Tue-Fri 8am-6pm & Sat-Sun 9am-6pm, come by and visit!