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Asarum canadense -Part to Full Shade– NA Native groundcover/wildflower, historically used as flavoring, spreads slowly by runners
3″ pots $4, Quart pots $8
North American native plant,
Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full to Part Sun– Showy magenta purple flowers and compact purple foliage. Slow spreading (well behaved). Good for tea, great butterfly and pollinator attractor.
3″ pots $4, Quart pots $8
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
Hierochloe odorata -Full sun– Aromatic native grass traditionally used ceremonially as a smudge, also to scent linens and as a tea. Spreads aggressively by root runners but not seed.
3″ pots $4, Quart pots $8
North American native plant,
Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
Hydrastis canadensis -Part to Full Shade– NA Native woodland medicinal herb
3″ pots $4, Quart pots $8
North American native plant,
Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full to Part Sun– Culinary herb with ornamental red flowers, butterfly and pollinator attractor. Well drained soil.
Quart pots $8
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
Glycyrrhiza glabra -Full Sun to Part Shade– Culinary and medicinal herb, nitrogen fixing legume
This nitrogen fixing legume is a useful and attractive plant that can be grown as a low/no maintenance understory herb in orchards and food forests. It doesn’t provide significant ground cover, but plays well with others.
3″ pots $4, Quart pots $8
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
Zingiber mioga -Sun to Full Shade– Young leaf shoots and flower buds used in Japanese and Korean cooking. Zone 6
Myoga ginger is a beautiful ornamental ginger that can be grown in the ground in zone 6 and possibly colder. It is in the same family as conventional ginger but doesn’t make a fleshy rhizome like regular ginger. Instead the young leaves and flower buds are used as a ginger flavored vegetable in traditional Japanese and Korean dishes. It is useful in the shade garden, but can also take up to full sun.
Quart pots $8, Gallon* pots $16
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
Cryptotaenia japonica f. atropurpurea -part shade– perennial parsley edible leaves roots and stems, self-seeds agressively
3″ pots $4, Quart pots $8
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
Rumex acetosa -Full Sun to Part Shade– Non-Flowering variety will not self-seed.
3″ pots $4, Quart pots $8
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
Origanum vulgare -Full Sun–
Quart pots $8
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
Origanum vulgare -Full Sun–
Quart pots $8
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun to Part Shade– White flowers, companion plant for fruit trees: plant around base of trunk, will spread vigorously
Beautiful abundant white flowers attract beneficial insects. Garlic chives love the light shade cast by a well-pruned fruit tree and will provide plenty of seasoning for your cooking. Don’t die back in summer like Garlic. Garlic chives are more vigorous and spreading than regular chives.
3″ pots $4, Quart pots $8
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun to Part Shade– purple globe flowers, companion plant for fruit trees: plant around base of trunk, will spread by clumping out
Beautiful purple globe flowers attract beneficial insects. Thrive in light shade under fruit trees. This is the standard chive most often used in cooking. Don’t die back in summer like Garlic.
3″ pots $4, Quart pots $8
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
Tanacetum vulgare -Full Sun– yellow button flowers, medicinal herb, insect repellent
3″ pots $4, Quart pots $8
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.