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Native Plant Sale

Saturday, June 1, 2019, 9:00am – 11:00am

Come purchase native plants to attract pollinators to your garden!

Reservations

Not Required

Pricing

  • General Admission: Free

Location

Laudholm Campus

This event is handicap accessible

We’ll be offering young plants grown from seed ethically collected from wild plants sourced from Wild Seed Project or from native species grown in home gardens. At a time when development has fragmented habitats and interrupted migration corridors for the native plants and animals that co-evolved over millennia, we can help restore more beneficial environments for these essential inhabitants and for us in our home gardens. The native plants will attract native insects and will provide food for our native birds.  

Purchased plants will include an information sheet with details on growing conditions, benefit to wildlife, and plants that will complement each other in your garden. At least nine species of easy-to-grow plants will be offered and come with a guarantee of interesting insect visitors. The birds, bees, butterflies, moths and fans of delightfully diverse and rich ecosystems will thank you.  

The Native Plant Sale will be held rain or shine. Quantities limited.

Plants for Sale

  • Foxglove beardtongue - Penstemon digitalis
  • Northeastern beardtongue - Penstemon hirsutus
  • New England aster - Symphotrichum novae angliae
  • Smooth aster - Symphotruchum laeve
  • Northern blazing star - Liatris scabiosa
  • White snakeroot - Ageratina altissima
  • Blue wood aster - Symphotrichum cordifolium
  • Blue-stem goldenrod - Solidago caesia
  • White wood aster - Eurybia divaricata
  • Jack and in the pulpit (small) - Arisaema triphyllum

The following plants have been slow to come up due to winter and spring conditions and may or may not be available:

  • Butterfly milkweed - Aesclepias tuberosa
  • Spotted bee-balm - Monarda punctata
  • Black-eyed coneflower - Rudbeckia hirta v. pulcherrima

There may be limited varieties of other plants.

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