Closed for the 2025 Season - See you in the Spring!

We are a hyper-local establishment with a huge variety of plants - we often have more than 350 varieties on hand at any time including rare, endangered and hard to find in the nursery trade plants. Our specialty is Northeast Native Plants, but we often also carry species that are valuable in permaculture and ecologically focused landscapes. Our perennials, grasses, ferns, shrubs and small trees are stocked in robust sizes typically ranging from 1-7 gallon pots with a few smaller 3.5 inch and 1 quart perennials available. The plant list provided below will give you a sense of the wide variety of offerings available. Trays of single species landscape plugs - both herbaceous perennials and shrub and tree tublings - are always available by special order, contact us to discuss options.

We do not use any pesticides here at our nursery and we only source plants from growers who are committed to environmental stewardship in their growing practices including integrated pest management techniques that minimize the use of chemical inputs. The plants that we sell are not artificially forced into bloom in heated greenhouses. Most of the perennials and shrubs are grown outdoors, following natural growing rhythms. That means that some native plants won't be available at all in early spring since they have not yet broken dormancy. Stopping in often throughout the season is the best way to be sure you have access to the richest variety of plants. Our springtime flowering annuals are grown by an experienced grower who utilizes a complex hardening off process that creates far more cold tolerance and resiliency in the plants - this extends the bloom time and means you can get them into the ground even earlier in the season. Many of the native plants that we carry are grown from local ecotype seeds from EcoRegion 59 (Northeastern Coastal Zone) and EcoRegion 84 (Atlantic Pine Barrens) making them especially well suited for success in our region.

We started out growing many of our plants, but, we are very committed to meeting the rapidly growing demand for great native plants and so as of 2024 we stopped growing to focus our energies on working with a few family owned specialty Northeast Growers who are able to supply us with a dazzling array of responsibly grown, extremely high quality, well rooted plants in the quantities we need to respond to your planting goals. These wholesale growers have decades of experience offering some of the very best products in the industry. We believe that making this switch is important not only to get more beneficial plant roots into the ground in our area but also to help to demonstrate to growers that there is in fact a strong market for straight species native plants, thus seeding much broader and longer-lasting change in the industry. This shift has allowed us to move from selling hundreds of plants each to year to getting tens of thousands of beneficial plants into yards across our region every season. It also enables us to be responsive to the needs of local landscape professionals, nonprofit organizations and municipalities who we frequently work with to secure plant materials for larger-scape projects. 

We are definitely not a traditional nursery. We are here on a mission to change gardening practices for the greater good and to offer support and community for others on a similar quest. We encourage you to use the educational resources we provide in the form of this website, our newsletters, newspaper articles, blog posts and more. We also hope you will attend one of the educational programs we offer in the community or here at the Emporium. Your support of our business helps us be able to offer programming and resources for the community. Visit the Upcoming Events page of our website to learn more.