Native Plants
Native plants are, in a word, local. They are plants that have been growing in a particular habitat and region, typically for thousands of years or much longer. Also called indigenous, they are well adapted to the climate, light, and soil conditions that characterize their ecosystem. Within this system, they have evolved tremendously important co-evolutionary relationships with the other plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria present, and these very complex relationships keep that particular ecosystem stable.
In Massachusetts, we consider all the plants that grew here prior to European colonization to be native.
Standing Ovation Little Bluestem - Shipped
Standing Ovation Little Bluestem is a native grass with upright slender blue-green leaves with tips and purple tints at the base. The foliage has ...
View full detailsSteeplebush - Shipped
Steeplebrush is a low mounding native deciduous shrub with oval sharp-toothed foliage that has dense hairy undersides and no fall color. Steeple s...
View full detailsSummerific® Perfect Storm Hibiscus - Shipped
Perfect Storm Hibiscus is a vigorous woody perennial with a mounding habit and hardy upright stems and lobed near-black foliage with hairy undersid...
View full detailsSweet Fern - Shipped
Sweet Fern is an upright spreading native deciduous shrub with deeply notched aromatic dark green foliage resembling a fern frond and turns a nice ...
View full detailsTater Tot® Arborvitae - Shipped
Tater Tot Arborvitae is a dwarf evergreen shrub with a dense, global habit and tidy flat splays of small aromatic fern-like foliage. Best grown fu...
View full detailsThreadleaf Blue Star, Arkansas Blue Star - Shipped
Threadleaf Blue Star is known for its feathery, thread-like leaves that create a soft, billowy texture in the garden. In late spring to early summe...
View full detailsVolcano® Lilac Splash Phlox - Shipped
Volcano Lilac Splash Phlox is a compact native perennial with stiff stems covered with medium green lance-shaped foliage. Clusters of highly fragr...
View full detailsVolcano® Purple with White Eye Phlox - Shipped
Volcano Purple with White Eye Phlox is a compact native perennial with stiff stems covered with medium green lance-shaped foliage. Clusters of hig...
View full detailsVolcano® Ruby Phlox - Shipped
Volcano Ruby Phlox is a compact native perennial with stiff stems covered with medium green lance-shaped foliage. Clusters of highly fragrant glow...
View full detailsWhite Swan Echinacea, Coneflower - Shipped
White Swan Echinacea is a freely branching native perennial with strong upright stems that do not need staking and dark green foliage. The large f...
View full detailsWhite Turtlehead - Shipped
White Turtlehead is a stiffly erect native herbaceous perennial with coarsely toothed dark green lace-shaped foliage. The hooded snapdragon like t...
View full detailsZagreb Threadleaf Tickseed - Shipped
Zagreb Threadleaf Tickseed is a compact clumping perennial with narrow palmate deep green foliage. Its bright yellow daisy-like flowers with unto...
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