Native Plant Sale
Saturday, May 24, 9:00
a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
Early Bird
Members-Only Sale
Friday, May 23, 4:00 -7:00 p.m.
Plus….all members receive a 10% discount on their total purchase both days!
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Bring back our natural heritage while attracting wildlife to your yard by planting native species. Not only are they beautiful, but they are adapted to our long, cold winters and hot, dry summers. They require no fertilizer and, once established, do not require watering.
Sugar Grove Nature Center is offering a wonderful assortment of harder-to-find native perennials, trees, and shrubs to diversify your garden with color, height, foliage, and beauty! These healthy, hardy, mature plants will arrive ready to begin landscaping your yard. Quantities are limited!
Shrubs- in 5 gallon pots, $20/each
Maple
Leaf Viburnum, Viburnum acerifolium
Beautiful viburnum prefers sun but tolerates moderate shade;
adapts to both moist and dry conditions; creamy white flowers in
mid-summer; black berries are popular bird food; bright rose-red
fall color; grows 4-6' H, 4-6' W.
Early Wild Rose,
Rosa blanda
Pink flowers with yellow centers bloom late May to early June
with an incredible aroma; large rose hips (3 = vitamin C of one
orange); forms thicket; grows 4'H, 4-6' W.
Trees- in 5 gallon pots, $25/each
(Due to supplier availability, some species were not available.)
Pagoda
Dogwood,
Cornus
alternifolia
Nice lateral branching and nice woodland flowers. Pagoda
displays very beautiful horizontal branching and white flowers
in the spring. True butterfly host plant. Birds relish the
blue-black fruit in August; maroon-red fall color; grows fast;
grows 15’H, 15’W
Allegheny
Shadblow,
Amelanchier
laevis
Largest and juiciest fruit of these Amelanchiers; true butterfly
host plant; the fruit tends to ripen all at once and definitely
is juicier, and the white flowers bloom about one week later;
grows 25’H, 25’W
Paw Paw,
Asimina triloba
A tropical looking tree, common in Funks Grove. Dark green
leaves, silvery bark, deep purple spring flowers, interesting
edible fruit (two trees needed for fruiting); part to full shade
preferred; grows 15-20' H, 10-15' W.
Blue Beech,
Carpinus caroliniana
One of the best mid-sized trees with smooth, gray, fluted bark;
member of the birch family; fall color red, yellow, orange;
highly adaptable to different soils and pH; in full-sun grows in
formal, upright pattern/ in shade a loose, hedge-like pattern;
in shrub form grows 15-20' H, 10-15' W.
Sour Gum, Nyssa
sylvatica
Unbelievable, glossy orange to red fall color; silvery bark in
winter; requires full sun and good soil, but tolerates both wet
and dry conditions; dark blue fruit devoured by birds in autumn;
grows 30-40; H, 25-35' W.
Forbs- in 3" pots, $4/each
Wild
Geranium, Geranium maculatum
Turtlehead, Chelone glabra
Jacob's Ladder, Polemonium reptans
Monkey Flower, Mimulus ringens
Smooth Petunia, Ruellia strepens
Great Blue Lobelia, Lobelia siphilitica
Thimbleweed, Anemone cylindrica
Culver's Root, Veronicastrum virginicum
Columbine, Aquilegia canadensis
Rosin Weed, Silphium integrifolium
Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosa
Blue Flag Iris, Iris virginica shrevei
Prairie Blazing Star, Liatris pycnostachya
Purple Prairie Clover, Petalostemum purpureum
White Prairie Clover, Petalostemum candidum