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*Please scroll down to see this week's plant list. Plants start at just $5!*Would you like to help make the world a better place this spring? You can by planting native plants right in your own backyard, in planters on your deck or at your office, in your community garden or any place where you want to help to save North Carolina's disappearing wildlife. Every single native plant that we bring to our sale helps to increase our local butterfly, moth, native bee, firefly, box turtle, hummingbird, songbird, ... populations because they not only provide the food and shelter the adults need, they provide the food for their babies that only native host plants can provide. Native plants are low maintenance and easy to grow because they are the plants that grow here naturally and have adapted to our soil and weather conditions over thousands of years. Even if you have never been a gardener, you can grow native plants and you will be amazed at the beautiful creatures that will show up in your yard!
After a long, cold winter, spring is just days away and the pollinators that have been hibernating will be emerging in the coming weeks desperately looking for nectar and pollen to survive and feed their young. Baby birds will soon be here and the parents will be in our yards looking for some of the thousands of caterpillars that they will need to feed their babies. Butterfly and bee numbers have been declining rapidly, mainly due to loss of habitat, and we have lost nearly three billion American birds in the past 40 years. To combat this, we can all help by planting the native keystone species that have grown in America for thousands of years, but these vital species are disappearing as we develop more and more of the land for ourselves. By planting these plants in your beds, on your fence, under a tree or even taking some grass out to start a new bed, you can help save them right in your own yard!
It's not only birds you'll see frequenting a native plant garden -the butterflies, moths and many of our native bees will be searching not only for nectar from flowers, but also for their host plants, so they can lay their eggs or collect the specific pollen they need to feed to their larvae. The songbirds are looking for places to build their nests and will soon have hungry chicks that will need to be fed up to 20,000 caterpillars to raise four babies that only weigh 1/3 of an ounce. These caterpillars only come from native plants, not the plants that most of us have in our yards. We can save our disappearing insects and all of the other species that depend on them up the food chain. Please come visit our native plant pop-up, and help to restore the native habitat in your yard to make it less of a food desert for our local wildlife. Every single plant added back to the neighborhood matters, and every little plant can be a lifeline for pollinators and make our neighborhood less of a food desert. Plant by plant, yard by yard, we can be nature's best hope...together!
*Just over 14% of native species support over 90% of America's butterfly and moth species. These are the keystone species that I have at the sale. Over 96% of terrestrial birds rely on insects, mainly caterpillars, to feed their young. 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,...We need to add these plants back to our little piece of the American landscape (our yards) which are mostly ornamental plants from other continents that are starving our local wildlife to extinction in some cases. You can help. We can all help. We can save our wildlife together plant by plant. Please join me and many others by planting America's plants to save America's wildlife!
These are the native plants that we will have at the April 4 plant sale. The plant list changes weekly, so please check back. There are also always a few last minute additions.
Red buckeye
Little Henry Sweetspire
Wax Myrtle
Tangerine Beauty Crossvine
Shamrock inkberry
Wild petunia
Swamp milkweed
Purple milkweed
Butterflyweed milkweed
Little Redhead Indian pink
Christmas fern
Purple Smoke false indigo
White wild indigo
Blue false indigo
American Dream rose coreopsis
Blue mistflower
Self-heal
Narrowleaf sunflower/swamp sunflower
Fire pink
Labrador violet
Freckles violet
Silver Gem Appalachian violet
Common violet
Obedient plant
Great blue lobelia
Cardinal flower
Celadine poppy
Pinxterbloom azalea
Virginia bluebells
Mayapple
Golden groundsel
Stokes aster
Eastern Columbine
Foamflower
Golden Alexander
Autumn Bride hairy alum root
American alum root
Robin's plantain
Eastern bluestar
Virginia spiderwort
Ohio spiderwort
Wild pink
Emerald Blue moss phlox
Fort Hill moss phlox
Sherwood Purple creeping phlox
Woodland phlox
Blue Moon woodland phlox
Morris Berd smooth phlox
Jeana garden phlox
Robert Moore garden phlox
Rough blazing star
Dense blazing star
Dwarf/Appalachian blazing star
Spotted bee balm
Wild bergamot
Bradbury's monarda
Jacob Cline scarlet bee balm
Rattlesnake master
Anise hyssop
Wild strawberry
Dwarf crested iris
Southern Blue Flag iris
Mayapple
Goatsbeard
Nodding onion
Nana dwarf coreopsis
Zagreb threadleaf coreopsis
Eco-lacquered spider green and gold
Jacob's ladder
Small's penstemon
Calico penstemon
Foxglove beardtongue
Culver's root
Cut leaf coneflower
Pale purple coneflower
Brown eyed Susan
Orange coneflower
Black-eyed susan
Henry Eiler's sweet coneflower
Lyre leaf sage
White wood aster
Twilight big leaf aster
Lady in Black calico aster
October Skies aromatic aster
Raydon's Favorite aromatic aster
Climbing Carolina aster
New England aster
Blue-eyed grass 'Suwannee'
Blue-eyed grass 'Lucerne'
Downy woodmint
Meehan's mint
Hoary mountain mint
Narrowleaf mountain mint
Appalachian mountain mint
Virginia mountain mint
Short-toothed mountain mint
Blue-stemmed goldenrod
Fireworks goldenrod
Golden Fleece goldenrod
Tall coreopsis
Swamp rose mallow
Virgin's bower
Purple passionflower
Major Wheeler coral honeysuckle
John Clayton coral honeysuckle
Carolina jessamine
Amethyst Falls American wisteria
Creek sedge
Seersucker sedge
Appalachian sedge
Pennsylvania sedge
Rosy sedge
Northwood switchgrass
Shenandoah switchgrass
Standing Ovation little bluestem
Purple lovegrass
Pink muhly grass
White Cloud muhly grass
Summersweet/ Sweet pepper bush
Hummingbird summersweet
American beautyberry
Shrubby St. John's wort
Rosa's blush dwarf Darrow's blueberry (native to the Southeast, but is a beautiful evergreen shrub 2-3 feet tall for foundation plantings)
Lauren, Madeleine and I will be at the plant sales every week to answer all of your questions and to help you select the best plants for your space!
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