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*Many of our plants are blooming or have buds that will open in the next week or so! Please see our updated list below.*Spring is really here! More pollinators are out and the flowers are starting to bloom! The pollinators that have been hibernating will continue to emerge over 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 12 plant sale.
Plants start at $3.
Smooth hydrangea
Purple milkweed
Swamp milkweed
dwarf crested iris
Tennessee White dwarf crested iris
Eastern bluestar
Threadleaf bluster
Blue false indigo
Purple Smoke false indigo
White false indigo
White Cloud muhly grass
Pink muhly grass
River oats
Appalachian blazing star
Dense blazing star
Button blazing star
Golden groundsel
Stokes aster
Eastern Columbine
Foamflower
'Running Tapestry' foamflower
'Autumn Bride' hairy alum root
American alum root
Robin's plantain
Virginia spiderwort
Wild pink
Fire pink
Emerald Blue moss phlox
Drummond's Pink moss phlox
Snowflake moss phlox
Fort Hill moss phlox
Creeping phlox (pink)
Sherwood Purple creeping phlox
Woodland phlox
'Blue Moon' woodland phlox
'May Breeze' woodland phlox
'Chattahoochee' woodland phlox
Meadow phlox
Carolina phlox 'Kim'
Garden phlox
'Jeana' garden phlox
'David' garden phlox
Cardinal flower
Spotted bee balm
Wild bergamot
Bradbury's monarda
'Jacob Cline' scarlet bee balm
Rattlesnake master
Wild strawberry
Sundrops
Obedient plant
Dwarf crested iris
Southern blue flag iris
Self-heal
Virginia bluebells
Little brown jugs
Mayapple
Wild geranium
Nodding onion
Zagreb threadleaf coreopsis
Nana dwarf coreopsis
Pierre green and gold
Eco-lacquered spider green and gold
Hoary skullcap
Jacob's ladder
Eastern Columbine
Small's penstemon
Calico penstemon
Husker Red penstemon
Foxglove beardtongue
Swamp sunflower
Freckles violet
Common violet
Pale purple coneflower
Purple coneflower
Brown eyed Susan
Black-eyed susan/orange coneflower
Sweet coneflower
Henry Eilers sweet coneflower
Cut-leaf coneflower/green headed coneflower
Lyre leaf sage
Blue wood aster
White wood aster
New York aster
'Snow Flurry' heath aster
'October Skies' aromatic aster
'Raydon's Favorite' aromatic aster
Climbing Carolina aster
Blue-eyed grass
Boneset
Culver's Root
Blue mist flower
White turtlehead
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
Tall coreopsis
Scarlet rose mallow
Swamp rose mallow
Major Wheeler coral honeysuckle
John Clayton coral honeysuckle
Cherokee sedge
Pennsylvania sedge
Elderberry
Strawberry bush
Inkberry
American beautyberry
New Jersey tea
Red chokeberry
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