Thursday Pop-up Sale: Native Plant Availability for 7/20

Nodding Onion New Jersey Native

We’ll be at the Green Challenge Film Fest screening of Inhabit at the Collingswood Community Center, Thursday, July 20th. Stop by, watch a great film (for free!), and pick up some native plants for the community garden or your garden at home. We’ll be there from 5:30PM – 9PM.

All of these plants are native perennials grown here in South Jersey.

Wild Roots July Availability

This batch of Jersey-grown native perennials comes from one of our favorite growers, Clemenson Farms.

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  • Found a giant leopard moth by the red maple in front of our house. Pretty jazzy little creature. 😎 🌳
  • Okay, last coneflower picture of the summer. Maybe. It’s just so easy to capture many of the most stunning pollinators hanging out them… Coneflowers and monarchs are gateway drugs to habitat gardening, but there are so many other glorious native plant and beneficial bug species to support. Our goal is to spread that message. But for today, there’s this. . . . #backyardhabitat #pollinators #butterflygarden #monarchbutterfly #savethemonarchs #nativenj #njinbloom #ecologicaldesign #sustainability #camdencounty #suburbangarden #collingswoodnj #sobasic
  • Two inch worms climbing Culver’s Root in tandem. Hoping they are the larvae of beautiful moths and not a pest. Either way, they are pretty damn cute. Culver’s root makes an excellent complement to other meadow flowers like coneflower, blazing star, and all of those yellow summer bloomers.
  • Our attempt to let the kids run loose at Rancocas was thwarted by an insane amount of mosquitoes due to record rainfall. We ended up running out of the woods holding both kids 🥳.... This is such a great spot to bring children on less swampy days: lots of dragonflies, birds, frogs🐸, butterflies, moths, and a nice little nature center we still got to enjoy.
  • We ❤️ creating family- and wildlife-friendly landscapes. . Tim really hoped I would incorporate some kind of “summersweet” pun in this post, because Wes is posing with ice cream in front of some pretty summersweet shrubs in the second pic. Instead, I spent way too many characters telling you about how he asked and I didn’t deliver. We’re pumped about the wood chip path we were able to put in around the meadow area this week thanks to Sal at Nova Tree Service. He’s the best. But this post isn’t supposed to be about puns or Sal. It was supposed to be about how natural landscapes are so much better for little ones - their curiosity, their physical health, their mental health. Mae is still hoping that the path will one day be a “wood path that’s like a boardwalk... with rides...” but she also loves to spot wildlife, do scavenger hunts, throw her sandals into the middle of the meadow 🤦‍♀️ and hide behind tall flowers and grasses. Wes? He loves the same things, as well as climbing onto the dirt pile (from ripping up turf grass) with a shovel and eating soil approximately 4 mins before I call everyone in for dinner.
  • The Red-Spotted Purple Butterfly is studied by biologists interested in the evolution of mimicry. Even if you think you’re not that into science or biology, bear with me, because this is cool: Mimicry is about evolving to look, smell, act, or sound like others in order to trick predators. This butterfly evolved to mimic the pattern of the Pipevine Swallowtail, which sequesters acid from plants to ward off predators. Birds are tricked into thinking this might be one of THOSE, and avoids it. Pretty cool. If more kids could travel outside of the classroom walls more often to observe what happens in nature, we’d probably have a lot more biologists and conservationists later on down the line. Or at least more environmentally friendly yards and gardens! 😊
  • Beautiful, beautiful mountain mint. It’s a native plant in the mint family and it will spread (hooray!) but it’s not invasive. We attended a rain garden class a little while back @morrisarboretum, and the teacher picked this as a favorite of hers in the rain gardens there. We love the bluish green color it adds to the garden when blooming. And the pollinators LOVE it. Seen here is a busy Great Black Wasp feasting on and pollinating flowers, and likely removing garden pests along the way. Full disclosure: I am pretty sure it’s a Great Black Wasp because of its shape and size and iridescent wings, but I’m no wasp expert. Most of us are taught to dislike or fear wasps, so I really hadn’t thought much about them in particular until I captured this video and started wondering... There is always something new to get into when you start paying attention to the details in your garden. “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” - Frank Lloyd Wright
  • 🇺🇸 This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me As I was walking a ribbon of highway I saw above me an endless skyway I saw below me a golden valley This land was made for you and me This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts And all around me a voice was sounding This land was made for you and me 🇺🇸 . . Happy 4th of July! . . #fourthofjuly #nationalparks #conservation #preservation #usa #naturalheritage #getoutside #inthewilderness #backpacking #explore #publiclands #notnewjersey #inspiration #woodieguthrie #tbt

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