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Fall is here. Asters and goldenrod are America's fall flowers that feed the pollinators when few other nectar sources are available to feed them. Asters and goldenrod help to fuel the monarchs as they migrate south. These two native powerhouses are also the host plants for over 200 different butterfly and moth species combined! This week, we will have an incredible selection of asters and goldenrod. You can have blooming plants in your yard this fall to help save our local pollinators and those traveling through on their journey south!Lauren, Madeleine and I will be back at Woods Charter School with our native plants to start our fall plant sales next Saturday, October 4 starting at 9 am! We can't wait to see all of you again! The weather is finally cooling off and fall is the best time to plant. The soil temperatures are still warm and the air temperatures will start to cool (thank goodness!). Plants focus their energy on root growth over the fall and winter resulting in far more drought tolerant and larger plants with more blooms next spring and summer. If you are new to native plants, please do not hesitate to ask any questions or show us photos, we want to help you! We also want to make native plants affordable to all, so our plants start at just $5. Our disappearing wildlife needs are help and we want everyone to be able to do just that!
Every year in America, over 800,000 acres of the American landscape are cleared to develop more land for us, but this is coming at a great cost to our wildlife. Our butterflies, moths, native bees, fireflies, birds,... are losing the plants that they have depended on for their survival and to feed their young at an astonishing rate. Just over 14% of America's native species support over 90% of America's butterfly and moth species and 1/3 of our native bees. Over 96% of terrestrial birds rely on insects, mainly caterpillars, to feed their young. Every one of these species is in decline at an average of 10 million birds per species. Only native plants serve as the host plants for our butterflies and moths to lay their eggs and feed their caterpillars. Without these native plants, we lose our butterflies, moths, native bees and everything that depends on them. Flying insect numbers are down 65% in the past 20 years and 34% in the past ten years because their habitat is being cleared for turf grass, houses, roads, schools, strip malls, hospitals,...By each of us adding these plants back to our little piece of the American landscape (our yards), most of which are planted with non-native plants installed by builders, we can help save our local wildlife populations. You can help. We can all help. We can save our wildlife together plant by plant, yard by yard. Please join me and many others by planting America's plants to save America's wildlife!
These are the plants native to the NC Piedmont that we will have at the October 4 plant sale. We offer deep landscape plugs, four inch, quarts and one gallons. We have a great selection of plants from just $5.
Pale purple coneflower
Maryland golden aster
Butterflyweed
Swamp milkweed
Common milkweed
Smooth aster
Bluebird smooth aster
October Skies aromatic aster
Raydon's Favorite aromatic aster
Lady in Black calico aster
Blue wood aster
White wood aster
New England aster
Carolina climbing aster
Fireworks goldenrod
Golden Fleece goldenrod
Blue stemmed goldenrod
American alumroot
Autumn Bride hairy alum root
Common evening primrose
Sundrops
Virginia spiderwort
Ohio spiderwort
White false indigo
Blue false indigo
Seashore mallow
Nodding Onion
Stokes aster
Wild petunia
Blue-eyed grass
Wild strawberry
Downy skullcap
Anise hyssop
Meehan's mint
Azure blue sage
Lyre leaf sage
Lynnhaven Carpet robin's plantain
Wild petunia
Golden groundsel
Woodland phlox
Blue Moon woodland phlox
Dwarf crested iris
Golden groundsel
Blue mistflower
Jacob's ladder
Narrow leaf sunflower
Bradbury's monarda
Wild bergamot
Scarlet bee balm
Monarda punctata
Rattlesnake master
Short and Sweet wild pink
Threadleaf bluestar
Jeana garden phlox
Eastern columbine
Foamflower
Woodland stonecrop
Common violet
Silver Gem Applalachian violet
Labrador violet
Pierre green and gold
Green and gold
Wild quinine
Dense blazing star
Appalachian blazing star
Golden Alexander
Common (Virginia) mountain mint
Narrowleaf mountain mint
Short-toothed mountain mint
Appalachian mountain mint
Hoary mountain mint
Cardinal flower
Great blue lobelia
New York Ironweed
Boneset
Brown-eyed Susan
Orange coneflower
Black-eyed Susan
Purple coneflower
Tall coreopsis
Nana dwarf coreopsis
Zagreb dwarf threadleaf coreopsis
Little Redhead Indian pink
Foxglove beardtongue
Small's penstemon
Calico penstemon
Husker Red penstemon
Emerald blue moss phlox
Fort Hill moss phlox
Rosy sedge
Appaclachian sedge
Pennsylvania sedge
Shenandoah switch grass
Pink muhly grass
Standing Ovation little bluestem
John Clayton coral honeysuckle
Major Wheeler coral honeysuckle
Trumpet vine
Passionflower
Virgin's bower
Inkberry
Spicebush
American beautyberry
American elderberry
Oakleaf hydrangea
Shrubby St. John's wort
Strawberry bush
St. Andrew's Cross
We truly appreciate your support of our very small family nursery. You allow us to continue doing what we love and are passionate about! Thank you!
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Woods Charter School, 160 Woodland Grove Ln, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-4085, United States
