Custom native plant orders made easy

Spend more time in the garden and less time on the Internet and driving around searching for the plants you need.

Once you’re ready to embark on an ecological gardening project, your next challenge is finding high quality, locally grown plants – especially native plants. If you have a plan in mind, we can help you get the plants you need from our network of growers at reasonable prices.

 

Picking up plants from a local wholesale grower.

 
 

“Transformation is not accomplished by tentative wading at the edge.”

― Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass

Custom Order Logistics

  • Minimum Orders

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  • Availability

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

  • Delivery

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Plant Sizes and Considerations

  • Gallon and Larger Perennial Containers

    Create instant impact with mature plants. Especially useful for ornamental grasses, which are slow to mature, or other slow-growing perennials like wild indigo.

    Higher cost per plant – best used for smaller beds, areas where an instant impact is important, or for slower-growing species to mix in with smaller-sized perennials.

    Individual specimens may be purchased.

    Average Cost: $8+/plant

  • Quart-Sized Containers

    Most species will look great and reach mature size quickly when planted as quarts. Depending on planting time, most species will put on good floral display in first growing season.

    Must be ordered as full trays of either 12 or 15 per species.

    Average Cost: $5 and up per plant

  • Plugs

    Smaller plants (usually just 2 inches across) but with developed root systems that can be directly planted into the ground. Often used in larger restoration projects, and can be combined with larger sized plants to balance impact and budget.

    Especially great for groundcovers used to cover a large area (e.g. ferns, coral bells, Allegheny pachysandra, barren strawberry)

    Must be ordered as full trays of either 32, 50, or 72 per species

    Average Cost: $2 per plant

  • Shrubs and Trees

    Available in gallon and larger containers, up to #7 containers (14” across, 11” deep)

    Cost varies pretty widely.

  • Custom Seed Mixes

    Most economical way to create a large-scale meadow planting

    Leads to a randomized, wild-looking landscape

    Needs to be timed properly to maximize germination rates (early spring or fall)

    Will take several years for planting to reach mature stage (though annuals and bi-annuals can be added to achieve some flowering during the first growing season).