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.
White Catawba Rhododendron - Shipped
White Catawba Rhododendron is a rounded evergreen shrub with tidy dark green foliage. Large clusters light pink buds open to soft white flowers wi...
View full detailsWhite Fringe Tree - Shipped
Fringe Tree is a large multi-stemmed deciduous shrub or small tree with a rounded crown. The spear-like bright green foliage turns yellow in fall....
View full detailsWinter Red Winterberry - Shipped
Winter Red Winterberry is a slow-growing upright deciduous shrub with a rounded habit and luscious dark green foliage. As a female cultivar, Winte...
View full detailsWinterberry Ilex verticillata 'Red Sprite' - Shipped
'Red Sprite' is a dwarf winterberry holly with a dense, rounded form, producing large, bright red berries that are especially showy against the sno...
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York Elderberry is a compact native deciduous shrub with a more contained upright mounding habit and light green foliage. Its larger clusters of w...
View full detailsYoungstown Creeping Juniper - Shipped
Youngstown Creeping Juniper is a coniferous shrub with a dense upward spreading branches. The spiny aromatic needle-like foliage is silver-grey and...
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