Custom native plant orders made easy

Spend more time in the garden and less time cruising the Internet and highways of New Jersey 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, Braiding Sweetgrass

Custom Order Logistics

  • Minimum Orders

    Minimum orders can vary by plant type, but would typically start around $500

  • Availability

    We'll check for availability with our network of local growers and find the best plants that fit your needs. Availability can change week to week as popular species sell out and new crops reach maturity.

  • Delivery

    We can arrange for delivery directly to your home or planting site.

Plant Sizes and Considerations

  • Child holding gallons-sized solidago plant

    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: $10-$14 per 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: $8 per plant

  • child holding deep-root landscape plug

    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: $2-3 per plant in sets of 50

  • 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).

How it works

Kick off

Share with us your inspiration, we’re share some of our own. We’ll take a look at your space together, assessing the conditions, measuring the areas, and talking through the process.

We use a variety of tools and can meet at your place or on the phone. If email is best, that is cool with us.

Planning

After meeting, we’ll prepare a custom planning worksheet for your project and send it over complete with plant suggestions. During this phase we’ll work together to get to a list of species and budget.

This part of the process alone will give you a great artifact for planning.

Ordering & Delivery

Once the worksheet is ready to go, we’ll finalize the sourcing plan and provide a finalized timeline for your project. We aim to source from South Jersey growers that do not use pesticides.

If we need to go a bit farther afield to source from elsewhere in our region, we will run that by you first.