Collingswood Green Festival
Pop-up Native Plant Sale 2026
Want to attract and support fireflies and songbirds?
Shop our first native plant shop pop-up of the season: Saturday, April 18, 2026 from 9am -2pm.
Our native plants are sourced specifically with Camden County's inner coastal plain and our changing climate in mind. All of the species featured in support firefly habitat, feed songbirds, and host the caterpillars your local food web depends on. Every plant on this year’s Green Festival list earns its place.
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This year’s Green Festival will take place in the same place as usual, in the lot across from Perkins Art Center and behind Thriven Design building (old Zane School).
The event will last from 9am - 2pm.
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Our plan is to have most species available for sale at the event, but the best way to secure the ones you want is to plan ahead and place a preorder.
Preorder starts April 14 at noon.
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This year most plants are the typical larger gallon size we’ve been selling recently. (Sorry, no kits at this particular event!) For more info on plant sizing, visit our Custom Plant Sourcing page.
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Yes, we’ll open the shop during the week leading up to the sale for preorder and pickup at the day of the festival.
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We couldn’t get the quality of kit we wanted this early in the season this year, but be on the lookout for future sales.
Spring Bloomers for Fireflies
(and many others)
These early-season plants are the foundation of the firefly food web, attracting the flies, beetles, and specialist insects that larvae depend on before summer's peak activity begins.
We are thrilled to offer this resilient, adaptable spring ephemeral for the first time this year! Virginia bluebells get their common name from their bell-shape blooms, which vary from blue to pale purple in color. They spread nicely but do go dormant by the middle of the summer, so planting them with ferns or other shade garden plants is a good idea.
Height: 1’ - 2’
Blooms: Spring, Blue
Light: Shade, Partial Shade (think woodland landscape)
Soil: Moist
A bright yellow late-spring bloomer from the carrot family, this plant will self-seed to fill in blank spaces in your garden. Suitable for a wide range of light conditions, though it does best in full sun.
Height: 1-2.5’
Blooms: May
Soil: Average to moist
Light: Full Sun to Shade
Late Bloomers
Have what you would describe as a ditch? Perfect. This beautiful native will thrive there and in moist soils in full sun to dappled shade. Can handle dry sites if they’re fairly shady, but it’s usually shorter lived in those conditions. A favorite of hummingbirds.
Height: 2-3’ typically, but can grow up to 6’ in the wild
Blooms: May - October if you’re lucky and it’s happy, Red
Soil: Well-drained, moist
Light: Shade to full sun
Gorgeous spiked flowers in spring and lovely foliage for rest of season (can be semi-evergreen).
Height: 1’
Blooms: May-June
Soil: Average to moist
Light: Shade to Part Shade
Blooming through August, and beyond, these plants are in full swing during firefly mating season, sustaining the insects deep into fall.
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A classic for native woodland gardens, Wild Columbine’s long lasting and interesting flowers attract hummingbirds and other pollinators in shade or part-shade conditions. It’s also a host for the Columbine Duskywing (Erynnis lucilius) butterfly.
Sunset Farmstead, the South Jersey-based grower of this plant, grows this cultivar that is very true to the straight species so you will see lots of pollinator action on this slightly fuller, slightly shorter version.
Great pollinator plant and one of the earliest wildflowers to bloom in sunny sites. The foliage is evergreen. Can be short-lived, but they re-seed readily, which we think makes up for that. If you don’t like where they pop up, you can always move them.
Height: 3’ - 4’
Bloom: White
Soil: Adaptable, drought-tolerant
Light: Full sun
Great for filling space in sunny sites with beauty and nectar. This variety exhibits good mildew resistance and is beloved by native bees.
Height: 2-3'
Blooms: June-July
Soil: Average to moist
Light: Full Sun
Mountain mint's distinctive pinkish green flowers are long bloomers and pollinator magnets, and this amazing plant is a magnet for lacewings, ladybugs, non-stinging wasps and other insects that help eradicate garden pests.
It grows to about 2 to 3 feet, and does well in part-shade to sunny sites. Here’s a nice article about it: Mountain Mint—Truly, a Gardeners Mint
All seasons interest with berries to attract birds, redtwig dogwood is a must-have shrub for your wildlife habitat garden. Its white flowers are beautiful in late spring and it’s host to Spring and Summer Azure butterflies. This adaptable shrub is drought-tolerant and also suitable for a rain garden.
Height: 6’ - 9’
Blooms: Spring, white
Sun: Partial to full sun
This low-growing native shrub is found across eastern North America. It typically reaches 1–3 feet tall and spreads by rhizomes, making it useful for naturalistic ground cover and erosion control. Its pink five-petaled flowers bloom in late spring to early summer, followed by small red rose hips that persist into winter and provide food for birds. The foliage has beautiful fall color.
It tolerates a range of soils, prefers full sun to light shade and is drought-tolerant once established. A solid choice for wildlife gardens, as the hips support songbirds and the flowers attract native bees and pollinators.
Achillea millefolium produces white and pink blooms and can be found all throughout the continent. Pollinators love it. It’s super resilient during hot months with little rain, and also makes a great cut flower and can be used for tea if you’re into that kind of thing.
Super adaptable, pretty flower that is also edible. Indigenous folks used it to treat croup, fevers, and colds. The small clusters of purple flowers last a long time, making it a great addition to the garden. Because the flowers face downward, nectar is protected.
Height: 1’
Blooms: July - August, sometimes beyond.
Soil: Dry to moist
Light: Partial to full sun
This species can handle a bit more sun than other heucheras and blooms in late summer/fall. Extremely versatile as a groundcover or in mixed perennial beds, and gorgeous when paired with spring bloomers like foamflower and wild geranium.
This is a fast spreader with long-lasting, showy blooms from mid-summer into the fall. Classic addition to a pollinator garden.
Height: 2-3'
Blooms: August-September
Soil: Average to moist
Light: Full Sun
Lovely fall bloomer and a butterfly magnet. This selection is slightly more compact than other goldenrods. Contrary to popular belief, goldenrods don't actually conribute to allergies, they just bloom at the same time as ragweed.
Height: 3-4’
Blooms: September-October
Soil: Average to moist
Light: Full Sun
Spicebush is a deciduous shrub, which grows with a rounded form. The fragrant white-yellow-green flower clusters bloom in March. It is dioecious; male and female flowers bloom on separate plants. Male flowers are larger and showier than female flowers. The female flowers lead to bright red fruits, which mature in the fall and are eaten by birds. Both male and female plants are needed to set fruit (sorry, we can’t guarantee the sex of individual plants).
Height: 6-12’
Blooms: Early Spring
Soil: Dry
Light: Full Sun to Shade, Best in Part Shade
American elderberry is a woody, deciduous shrub that can grow up to 12 feet tall 10 feet wide. It is a member of the viburnum family, and when its white flower clusters turn to berries and birds love the fruit, which can also be cooked or made into syrup and enjoyed for its anti-inflammatory and immune system-boosting properties.
American elderberry is very adaptable, thriving in wet to dry soils and sun or partial shade. It grows best (and biggest) in slightly acidic soils.
The backbone of firefly habitat: their dense, deep root systems hold soil moisture through dry spells, their basal clumps shelter overwintering larvae, and their leaf litter builds the rich woodland floor where fireflies spend most of their lives.
Native Grasses
A wonderful cool-season ornamental grass. Can handle full sun, but prefers partial shade.
Native Shrubs That Feed Songbirds
Multi-season workhorses that feed migrating and resident birds with berries and seeds, while their layered structure creates the shaded, humid microhabitats firefly larvae need to thrive.
A more compact selection of switch grass suitable for large or small gardens. Shows red streaks in summer and fall.
Height: 3'
Blooms: n/a
Soil: Average to moist
Light: Full Sun
Large shrub with white spring flowers clusters that give way to summer berries that attract many native bird species. The foliage is a nice deep green in the summer and leads to brilliant fall colors. Two plants are needed for fruit production. Good for screening, though not evergreen. Individual stems can be pruned off to control height if needed.
Height: 6’ - 20’ (multi-stemmed)
Blooms: April - May, White
Light: Full sun to part shade
Soil: Adaptable, but prefers well-drained soil
An attractive clump-forming ornamental native grass. Great in hot, dry areas especially. We’ve seen it recommended for areas where you’re trying to prevent or stopt erosion, as well. All in all a great plant. It looks nice in the fall garden as well, when it becomes brownish orange.
Height: 1’ - 2’
Soil: Dry, super drought-tolerant
Light: Sun