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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.
(Helianthus tuberosus) -Full Sun to part shade– Native sunflower with edible tubers. Exceptionally productive white variety.
Also from Oikos, exceptionally productive white-skinned variety that has an interesting “fractal-like” form to the tubers. They are very lumpy and convoluted, making them much harder to clean than ‘Smooth Red’.
Quart pots $8, Gallon* pots $16
North American native plant,
Native sunflower species with large nutritious tubers. Very easy to grow (hard to get rid of!) and productive. High in inulin, making them an excellent choice for diabetics. Raw, they are crunchy and juicy with a faint sunflower-seed flavor. Cooked they are like a watery potato. A friend once pickled them and they were fabulous! Can be harvested all winter so long as you can dig a hole. Herbaceous perennial–dies to the ground each winter but gets going fast and furious in late spring. Tall, rough stems can get 8′ tall or more with clusters of small yellow sunflower-like blossoms in the fall. Makes plenty of biomass–might be good for hay, bedding, or mulch. Will self-seed readily–beware as they have a notorious reputation for being hard to get rid of. We recommend planting them in an out-of-the-way place you can mow around or you don’t mind them spreading in. Pigs will root them up to eat the tubers in the fall.
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.
Aquilegia canadensis -Part to Full Shade– NA Native wildflower
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.
Panax quinquefolius -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.
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.
-Full to Part Sun– Very ornamental and vigorous, Good for tea, excellent pollinator attractor, 12-18″ tall
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.
Mentha spicata -Full Sun to Part Shade– Traditional for mint juleps
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.
Hypericum perforatum -Full Sun to Part Shade–
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–
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– edible flower
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– Good substitute for oregano that tolerates wetter/heavier soil conditions, 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.
-Full Sun to light shade– We stock a variety of edible flowers, mostly perennials – call or message for current stock availability
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 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.
Symphytum x uplandicum -Full Sun to Part Shade– plant in a circle around the base of fruit trees to help them get established and to add nutrients
Considered a “dynamic accumulator,” comfrey has deep tap roots that mine the subsoil for minerals which it makes available to the tree when its leaves die or are slashed periodically throughout the growing season. Comfrey is a “must-have” for every permaculture garden or orchard. It is useful for herbal salves, a wonderful high-protein animal fodder, and attracts beneficial insects. Its leaves are high in nitrogen, and it is used by many organic gardeners as a compost activator. Planted in a ring around a young fruit tree, comfrey grows vigorously, spreads by clumping out and keeps out weeds when full sun is available under the tree (a living mulch). It will gradually die back as the tree gets bigger and casts more shade. We sometimes keep gallon pots of this on hand, but we prefer to sell it by the shovelful, which is a much better value. A shovelful is the same as the gallon pot price: $14
By the shovelful (5-10 divisions): $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.