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.
Northern Bayberry - Shipped
Northern Bayberry is a dense-branching native semi-evergreen shrub with a rounded habit. The narrow glossy grey-green foliage is aromatic when cru...
View full detailsNorthland Blueberry - Shipped
Northland Blueberry is a compact native deciduous shrub that has a strong production of sweet-tart deep blue berries that ripen in mid season. Its...
View full detailsPatriot Highbush Blueberry - Shipped
Patriot Highbush Blueberry is a fruit-producing deciduous shrub with dark green foliage that turns shades or red and purple in fall. Clusters of p...
View full detailsPink Rosebay Rhododendron - Shipped
Pink Rosebay Rhododendron is a large native evergreen shrub with a loosely upright spreading habit and leathery dark green foliage. Large clusters...
View full detailsPlum Pudding Coral Bells, Heuchera - Shipped
Plum Pudding Coral Bells is an evergreen herbaceous perennial with a clumping habit. It large shiny plum-purple leaves with dark purple veining a...
View full detailsPrimo® Black Pearl Coral Bells - Shipped
Black Pearl Coral Bells is an evergreen herbaceous perennial with a mounding habit grown for its dramatic basal foliage. The scalloped lobed leave...
View full detailsPrimo® Peachberry Ice Heuchera - Shipped
Peachberry Ice Heuchera is an evergreen herbaceous perennial with a robust low mounding habit grown for its dramatic basal foliage. Its ruffled an...
View full detailsPrimo® Wild Rose Heuchera - Shipped
Wild Rose Heuchera is an evergreen herbaceous perennial with a robust low mounding habit grown for its dramatic basal foliage. The bright rosy pur...
View full detailsProud Berry® Coralberry - Shipped
Proud Berry Coralberry is a compact native deciduous shrub with a suckering habit and rounded green foliage that turns burgundy in fall. Clusters ...
View full detailsProven Winners® Incrediball® Smooth Hydrangea - Shipped
Incrediball Smooth Hydrangea is a reblooming dwarf deciduous shrub with serrated jade green foliage and no fall color. The sturdy stems don’t flop...
View full detailsPussy Willow - Shipped
Pussy Willow is a large multi-stemmed native deciduous shrub with a rounded spreading habit. The finely toothed leaves are lanceolate to elliptic,...
View full detailsPW® Low Scape Mound® Aronia - Shipped
Low Scape Mound Aronia is a dwarf native deciduous shrub with a low-mounding habit and tidy, glossy dark green foliage that turns brilliant red i...
View full detailsRainbow Drooping Leucothoe - Shipped
Rainbow Drooping Leucothoe is a colorful native evergreen shrub with a lax, arching multi-stemmed habit. Its variegated foliage emerges molted wit...
View full detailsRaspberry Glow Mountain Laurel - Shipped
Raspberry Glow Mountain Laurel is a compact evergreen shrub that forms a dense mound of glossy, lightly waved green foliage. Showy clusters of ras...
View full detailsRuby Slippers Oakleaf Hydrangea - Shipped
Ruby Slippers Hydrangea is a compact deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves that turn red in fall and exfoliating bark. Its large panicles hel...
View full detailsRuby Spice Summersweet - Shipped
Ruby Spice Summersweet is a densely branched deciduous shrub native to the South. Its glossy dark green leaves have attractive shades of yellow to...
View full detailsSarah Mountain Laurel - Shipped
Sarah Mountain Laurel is a compact evergreen shrub that forms a dense mound of glossy, rich green foliage that emerges burgundy Showy clusters of ...
View full detailsShamrock Inkberry Holly - Shipped
Shamrock Inkberry Holly is a compact native evergreen shrub with a rounded habit and lightly toothed bright green leaves. A female holly that if p...
View full detailsSpice Bush - Shipped
Spice Bush is a native rounded deciduous shrub with spicy aromatic foliage and peppery scented and flavored berries. The thick light green foliage...
View full detailsSummer Wine® Ninebark - Shipped
Summer Wine Ninebark is a compact native deciduous shrub with a freely branching upright habit and branches that gracefully arch with age. Its 3-5...
View full detailsSummersweet, Sweet Pepperbush - Shipped
Summersweet is a native deciduous shrub with dense branching and glossy dark green foliage that turns attractive shades of yellow to golden brown i...
View full detailsSwamp Rose - Shipped
Swamp Rose is a hardy native deciduous shrub with a spreading habit that often forms thickets. Its bright green leaves are pinnately compound with ...
View full detailsTiny Wine® Ninebark - Shipped
Tiny Wine Gold Ninebark is a compact native deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit and bright chartreuse foliage that emerges gold and mat...
View full detailsVirginia Creeper - Shipped
Virginia Creeper is a fast-growing native woody vine that creeps along the ground as a groundcover or climbs without needing support. The saw-toot...
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