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The Native Plant Emporium is located in Swansea, MA. Look for the Big Red Barn on Barneyville Road (literally) on the Barrington, RI/Swansea, MA town/state border. Use 6 Barneyville Road, Barrington, RI 02806 for GPS, but pull into the driveway at the red barn on the Swansea side of the state line, not the house on the Barrington side. If you use Google Maps our location will pop right up for you.
We are closed for "drop in shopping" until spring but are currently taking orders for springtime projects. Reach out any time to discuss your needs. Drop in shopping at the Emporium runs from late April through late October.
Great new plants arrive every single week from April - September with peak native plant availability during the summer months - June through mid-September. Orders can be placed in advance if you already know what you are looking for.
We accept cash, Venmo, PayPal, credit and debit cards. Thanks in advance for your patronage and interest in adding beneficial plants to your yards and gardens.
Our focus and specialty is Native (indigenous) Plants including flowering perennials, grasses, ferns, groundcovers, shrubs, trees along with complementary plants and products focused on restoring habitat right at home 🐝🦋🐦. Be sure to ask about our signature plant, Native Prickly Pear Cactus which happily grows outdoors in Southern New England sandy soils.
Our inventory is constantly changing, just like the New England weather. Visit often to score the very best finds! We are a small, hyper-local establishment with a huge variety of plants. We often have more than 300 varieties on hand at any time including rare, endangered and hard to find in the nursery trade plants. Our perennials, grasses, ferns, shrubs and small trees are stocked in robust sizes typically ranging from 1-7 gallon pots with a few smaller 1 quart perennials available. Many varieties of perennial plugs (seedings) and shrub and tree tublings (saplings) are available by special order in trays of 32-50 of a kind. Please outreach to discuss options and availability.
We do not use any pesticides here at our nursery and we only source plants from growers who are deeply committed to environmental stewardship in their growing practices including integrated pest management techniques that minimize the use of any 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 and 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.
We are very committed to meeting the rapidly growing demand for great native plants and so as of 2024 we scaled back our own growing to focus our energies on working with very high quality 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. Many of these plants are grown from eco-type seed from New England and nearby Long Island. 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!
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 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.
A few additional notes:
Our inventory is constantly changing and we do not maintain or post a live inventory. The list below represent plants that will be in stock throughout the spring season (late April through the end of May). Native plants are grown outside following natural cycles and will not be available until they have fully broken dormancy and are clearly ready to grow into robust plants in your garden. If you are looking for a particular species please reach out ahead of time to confirm availability!
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